WaPo Fact-Checker Gives Biden A ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’

The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler on Monday gave President Joe Biden a “bottomless Pinocchio” as part of a roundup of the president’s falsehoods.

Kessler said he decided to do a roundup of Biden’s misleading or false claims because “readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements, but none of them seemed big enough for a stand-alone fact check.”

“We generally do not award Pinocchios for roundups like this — but for reasons that will become clear, we need to make an exception for the first one,” Kessler wrote.

Kessler first fact checked a recent claim Biden made in which he said he has spent “more time with Xi Jinping than any other head of state” and has “traveled 17,000 miles with him.” Kessler noted that the Post rated the claim false shortly after Biden took office and that the White House “could not offer an explanation for that number either.”

“But it’s noteworthy because, despite our fact check and a White House admission that Biden’s line of ‘traveling with’ Xi was not accurate,” Biden nonetheless repeated the comment multiple times, Kessler wrote.