FactChecking Biden’s NBC News Interview

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview two days after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden drew contrasts between himself, his Republican challenger, and Trump’s newly selected vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. We found that Biden made some claims that were misleading, exaggerated or out of context. Biden said Trump “wants a $5 trillion tax cut for people who are making a lot of money.” But some of that $5 trillion would go to taxpayers earning less than $400,000 — a policy that Biden himself has proposed. The president misleadingly claimed that Vance “has adopted” a policy of “no exceptions on abortion.” Vance initially suggested that he may not support abortion laws with exceptions for rape or incest. He has since said, like Trump, that he is open to allowing “reasonable exceptions” for abortion. Biden also said that Vance “says there’s no climate change happening.” But the senator acknowledged in November 2022 that “climate change is certainly happening,” which was a few months after he said there was no “climate crisis” and questioned how much humans contribute to the changing climate. Biden glossed over the...