Glenn Kessler, a fact-checker from the Washington Post, has stated that he will not count false claims made by President Biden during his presidency similar to how they were counted during the Trump presidency
On an interview with CNN, Kessler stated that “in the case of the Biden-Harris transition team, we identified five factual statements he made and we wanted to know what was the basis for this. Within fifteen minutes we received citations to those factual statements and they all checked out.”
Kessler then went on to address the fact-checking that was associated with the Trump presidency to which he said “generally the Trump White House almost never responded to our inquiries because, of course, a lot of what the president said could not be defended or explained in terms of where he got these so called facts.”
Kessler concluded the interview by comparing the Biden administration to the Obama administration and is predicting that they will be similar when it comes to truth telling. “I assume the Biden presidency will be a lot like the Obama presidency, and that they will be responsive, and will be able to quickly back up what they’re saying.”
The anchor of this CNN interview also addressed the “false or misleading claims” made by Trump during his presidency as the Washington Post has said that Trump had made “thirty thousand false claims in four years.”
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