CNN Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing

Vambram said:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/politics/fact-check-biden-pennsylvania-campaign-swing/index.html

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Pommer said:

This is a mirror of the OPs link, (not a different source, and two weeks old).

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Vambram said:

Do you have any opinions concerning what that analyst from CNN wrote?

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Pommer said:

From yon article:

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In the same Tuesday speech in Scranton, 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: Biden’s “I never did” claim is false. In fact, his presidential salary is $400,000 per year; the joint tax filings of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden showed $619,976 in income last year, $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 signed a lucrative book deal and he delivered paid speeches. The Bidens’ joint tax filings showed a total of about $11 million in 2017 income and about $4.6 million in 2018 income.

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 previously noted, 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.
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Wow, what a whopper.

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Vambram said:

I'm glad that you showed how much the Biden's officially put on federal income tax returns. However, that little tidbit does not have much at all to do with the majority of the criticism found in that CNN article.

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