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CNN Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing
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<blockquote data-quote="Pommer" data-source="post: 77668040" data-attributes="member: 231908"><p>From yon article:</p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p><em><strong>In the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/04/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-event-scranton-pa/" target="_blank">same Tuesday speech in Scranton</a>, Biden repeated his regular promise that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will pay even a cent more in taxes under his proposals. He then added, “I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did.”</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Facts First</strong>: Biden’s “I never did” claim is false. In fact, his <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title3-section102&num=0&edition=prelim#:~:text=The%20President%20shall%20receive%20in,from%20the%20discharge%20of%20his" target="_blank"><em>presidential salary is $400,000 per year</em></a>; the joint tax filings of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/politics/bidens-2023-tax-returns/index.html" target="_blank"><em>showed $619,976 in income last year</em></a>, $579,514 in 2022 and $610,702 in 2021. In addition, Biden earned millions in 2017 and 2018, when, during his time as a private citizen following his vice presidency, he and Jill Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/joe-biden-tax-returns/index.html" target="_blank"><em>signed a lucrative book deal and he delivered paid speeches</em></a>. The Bidens’ joint tax filings <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/joe-biden-tax-returns/index.html" target="_blank"><em>showed</em></a> a total of about $11 million in 2017 income and about $4.6 million in 2018 income.</em></p><p style="text-align: center"><em> Biden, who was a US senator for 36 years prior to his vice presidency, did regularly earn less than $400,000 per year before 2017. As PolitiFact has <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/joe-biden/fact-checking-joe-bidens-claim-about-his-own-incom/" target="_blank">previously noted</a>, the Bidens’ joint filings reported less than $400,000 in income in each year from 1998 through 2016 except for 2013, when they were just over $407,000.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>Wow, what a whopper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pommer, post: 77668040, member: 231908"] From yon article: [CENTER] [/CENTER] [I][B]In the [URL='https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/04/16/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-event-scranton-pa/']same Tuesday speech in Scranton[/URL], Biden repeated his regular promise that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will pay even a cent more in taxes under his proposals. He then added, “I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did.” Facts First[/B]: Biden’s “I never did” claim is false. In fact, his [URL='https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title3-section102&num=0&edition=prelim#:~:text=The%20President%20shall%20receive%20in,from%20the%20discharge%20of%20his'][I]presidential salary is $400,000 per year[/I][/URL]; the joint tax filings of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/politics/bidens-2023-tax-returns/index.html'][I]showed $619,976 in income last year[/I][/URL], $579,514 in 2022 and $610,702 in 2021. In addition, Biden earned millions in 2017 and 2018, when, during his time as a private citizen following his vice presidency, he and Jill Biden [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/joe-biden-tax-returns/index.html'][I]signed a lucrative book deal and he delivered paid speeches[/I][/URL]. The Bidens’ joint tax filings [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/joe-biden-tax-returns/index.html'][I]showed[/I][/URL] a total of about $11 million in 2017 income and about $4.6 million in 2018 income.[/I] [CENTER][I] Biden, who was a US senator for 36 years prior to his vice presidency, did regularly earn less than $400,000 per year before 2017. As PolitiFact has [URL='https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/joe-biden/fact-checking-joe-bidens-claim-about-his-own-incom/']previously noted[/URL], the Bidens’ joint filings reported less than $400,000 in income in each year from 1998 through 2016 except for 2013, when they were just over $407,000.[/I] [/CENTER] Wow, what a whopper. [/QUOTE]
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