Fact-checking Biden’s address to the nation
Posted on AllSides March 12th, 2021
From The Left
ANALYSIS
President Biden’s address to the nation was heavy on emotion and hope, but light on facts. Here are two moments where the president stretched the truth.
“That’s more deaths than in World War I, World War II, Vietnam War and 9/11 combined.”
Biden’s math on this is wrong. The president said 527,726 Americans have been recorded as dying from the coronavirus. But, as we have noted before, about 580,000 people died in the three wars he mentioned.
Adding in the nearly 3,000 people who died during the Sept. 11, 2001,...
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