FactChecking Biden’s Post-Debate TV Interview

In his first televised interview since his admittedly “bad” presidential debate, President Joe Biden made a few exaggerated and misleading statements. Here’s what Biden said in his 22-minute, prime-time interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on July 5: Biden exaggerated when he claimed that the U.S. share of global semiconductor — or chip — production capacity has declined to “virtually nothing.” Biden, again, wrongly claimed that former President Donald Trump told the public to inject bleach as a treatment for COVID-19. Biden denied that he had fallen further behind Trump in post-debate polling, saying “nothing’s changed substantially since the debate in the New York Times poll.” The Times post-debate poll showed Trump ahead by 6 percentage points — an increase of 3 points. Biden repeated his misleading talking point that Trump “lost more jobs than he created.” That ignores the swift and devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Semiconductors Biden claimed that the U.S. share of global semiconductor — or chip — production capacity has declined to “virtually nothing.” That’s a bit of an exaggeration. “We used to have 40% of computer chips,” the president said. “We invented the chip, the little chip, the computer chip. It’s in everything...