Hunter Biden seems to be the Biden Family Spokesperson
In politics, leadership doesn’t always come from holding elected office. Sometimes it comes from simply being the family member willing to answer difficult questions in public.
Over the past several months, Hunter Biden has increasingly become the most visible and accessible public representative of the Biden family. While former President Joe Biden has largely remained out of the national…
We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.
So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.
Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
27. After failing to do so, he said the promise had been sarcastic or made in jest. Fifty-three times of sarcasm.
28. He claimed Ukraine started the war. Russia invaded Ukraine.
29. He used inflated and inconsistent figures to claim America had contributed vastly more to Ukraine than Europe. On total aid allocated by European countries and European Union institutions collectively, Europe had contributed more.
30. He said Russia failed to take Kyiv because its forces avoided the highways. The article he cited described Russian forces invading along the highways.
31. He repeatedly said Biden gave Ukraine $350 billion. That conflated the full cost of Ukraine-related appropriations with money and equipment actually delivered to Ukraine.
32. Official figures for direct military assistance were a fraction of his claim.
33. After repeatedly saying the earlier strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, he later took the country to war over the continuing threat posed by that same program.
34. An early assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that the strikes had set the program back rather than destroyed it.
35. He presented the war as necessary to stop an impending Iranian attack. Pentagon officials told Congress they had not identified evidence that Iran was preparing an imminent attack on the United States.
36. He said half the world might have been eradicated without his intervention. His own intelligence director had testified that Iran had not made a decision to build a nuclear weapon.
37. Nine days into the war, he declared, “We’ve already won.” The fighting continued.
38. On May 1, he formally notified Congress that US hostilities with Iran had “terminated,” even though the broader military confrontation and US operations continued.
39. He said the war was going “swimmingly” as it ground on.
40. He repeatedly declared total victory and then issued new threats against Iran, sometimes contradicting himself within a single day.
41. On June 1, he said he did not care whether negotiations were over. The same day, he posted that talks were continuing at a rapid pace.
42. His administration insisted that continuing military operations did not constitute legally relevant “hostilities,” allowing it to argue that the War Powers deadline no longer applied.
43. He said Iran’s leaders were all gone and “everything” was gone. In the same meeting, he acknowledged that Iran still possessed missiles and drones.
44. He repeatedly claimed Iran’s military capabilities had been entirely eradicated. They had not.
45. He now says Iran has been denuclearized, even though he made essentially the same “obliterated” claim after the earlier strikes and later said Iran remained dangerous enough to justify another war.
46. He claimed a former president had privately endorsed his handling of the Iran war. Representatives for the four living former presidents said none had held such a conversation with him.
47. He repeated his debunked claim that his 2000 book warned about Osama bin Laden.
48. He said news organizations should be prosecuted for treason for supposedly circulating fake aircraft-carrier footage, while providing no identified example of a news organization fabricating such a video.
49. He says he ended eight wars. His list includes disputes that were not wars, conflicts that had not actually ended and ceasefires whose participants dispute his role.
50. He repeatedly increased the number from six to seven to eight without providing a consistent list or standard for what counts as a war he ended.
51. He says he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan. India says the ceasefire was reached bilaterally and that he was not part of it.
52. He counted Congo and Rwanda among the wars he ended. Fresh fighting broke out weeks later.
53. He counted Kosovo and Serbia. Experts noted that the two countries were not at war.
54. He declared the war in Gaza over. The next phase of the ceasefire did not begin, the parties remained divided over its terms and both sides threatened renewed fighting.
55. He said Greenland was surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships. Officials and regional experts said there was no such ring of ships.
56. He described Greenland as a piece of ice that was difficult to call land. It is the world’s largest island and home to approximately 56,000 people.
57. He said there was no sign of Denmark in Greenland. Denmark has governed Greenland for centuries.
58. He said America paid 100 percent of NATO. The United States accounted for roughly two-thirds of total allied defense spending but only about one-sixth of NATO’s jointly funded budgets.
59. He said the United States never got anything from NATO. NATO has invoked its mutual-defense clause once in its history. It did so for the United States after September 11.
60. Denmark alone lost more than 40 service members fighting alongside the United States in Afghanistan.
61. He said most NATO countries were not paying anything before he became president. Ev member had national defense spending, even when many fell below the alliance’s 2 percent target.
62. He said Barack Obama had been “caught” committing treason. John Durham’s investigation did not charge Obama or establish the alleged conspiracy.
63. Durham charged three other people, produced one guilty plea involving an altered email, and ended with two acquittals.
64. He dismissed evidence pointing toward Iranian-linked hackers and blamed Tim Walz and Minnesota’s supposed incompetence for cyberattacks that struck water systems in several states. He offered no evidence that Walz caused them.
65. He said Biden allowed 25 million migrants into the country. The government recorded fewer than 11 million border encounters during Biden’s term, and encounters included repeat attempts and people who were expelled or removed.
66. He said Biden let in 11,888 murderers. The figure came from an immigration docket covering people who entered the country over several decades and under multiple presidents, including Trump.
67. He said King Charles agreed with him on Iran “even more than I do.” Buckingham Palace promptly clarified that the King remains politically neutral and acts on the advice of Britain’s elected government.
68. He said his ballroom “won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it.” His project then demolished the East Wing, the East Colonnade and other parts of the White House grounds.
69. He called the White House UFC event one of the most watched fights in history. Its reported audience was far below several recent boxing events.
70. He said a perfect score on a dementia screening test proved his “extreme intelligence.” The test asks patients to identify animals, recall words and draw a clock.
71. He asked crowds to remember a nationwide television blackout supposedly caused by windless turbines during the 2024 presidential debate. No such blackout occurred.
72. He spent years suggesting the Epstein records would incriminate Democrats and promising disclosure. When demands for release turned toward his own administration, he called the controversy a Democratic hoax.
73. He called it “a Democrat hoax that never ends” while Epstein’s victims stood on Capitol Hill asking his administration to release the records.
74. He denied writing the birthday message attributed to him. Epstein’s estate later provided Congress with the birthday book containing the disputed letter and signature. The document exists. Whether he authored it remains contested.
75. A New York Times review found his name mentioned more than 38,000 times in the three million pages his own Justice Department released. He says the files are fake. His own department released them.
76. He said vandals slashed the Reflecting Pool with a knife, then a box cutter, then a razor.
77. He described the liner as so strong no knife could cut it while simultaneously insisting that someone had cut it with a knife.
78. His Justice Department moved to dismiss the case against 67-year-old former Olympian David Hearn after evidence showed that flawed, rushed installation had caused widespread peeling and damage.
79. Trump responded that he disagreed “100 percent” with his own prosecutors’ conclusion.
80. He says the 2020 election was stolen. Recounts, audits, dozens of failed lawsuits, his own attorney general and members of his administration found no evidence capable of changing the result.
81. He says he won the presidency three times. He won twice.
82. He says he won the popular vote all three times. He lost it in 2016 and 2020.
83. A joint statement issued by federal and state election-security officials, including his own administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, called the 2020 election the most secure in American history.
84: He mocked that conclusion in a primetime address while again claiming that the election had been stolen.
85. The same speech warned of shocking vulnerabilities in American elections but offered no new evidence that widespread fraud had occurred or that the 2020 result was illegitimate.
86. He claimed hundreds of thousands of noncitizens were registered to vote. Election officials and data experts said the government’s matching method produced unverified potential matches, not proof that those people were noncitizens or had cast ballots.
Eighty-six false, misleading, contradictory or unsupported claims. One partial list. Twenty-four months. It is not complete. It cannot be. Don’t take my word for it. Ask your favorite AI. Check the sources. Then post your own list in the replies.
