Fact check: Bidens horrific debate performance made worse by multiple lies and gaffes

Critics of former President Donald Trump are always quick to challenge the veracity of the Republican’s statements but President Biden was guilty of multiple whoppers during Thursday night’s presidential debate — when he was coherent.Here were the commander in chief’s biggest fibs and gaffes:What Biden said: “I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any — this decade — that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like [Trump] did.”Truth: At least 16 troops have died in overseas attacks over his tenure, including, infamously, the 13 soldiers killed in an ISIS-K attack during the botched August 2021 US evacuation from Afghanistan.What Biden said: ‘We finally beat Medicare.”Fact: Huh? It’s unclear if even the octogenarian president knew what he meant here, but the obvious verbal blunder occurred after he froze discussing his record on the economy.

Trump, 78, sarcastically responded: “He did beat Medicare.He beat it to death.”What Biden said: The US Border Patrol union “endorsed me, endorsed my position.”Truth: The National Border Patrol Council refuted Biden’s claim — mid-debate.

“To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden,” the union posted on X.What Biden said: “[Trump] pulled out of the Paris Peace Accords, uh, Climate Accord.”Fact: The president confused the Paris Climate Accords, the YEAR international pact aimed at tackling climate change, with the Paris Peace Accords that marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1973.What Biden said: “Black unemployment is the lowest level it’s been in a long, long time.”Truth: In April 2023 under Biden, black unemployment hit a record low of 4.8%, beating a previous low of 5.3% reached under Trump in 2019.

However, the rate last month was 6.1%.What Biden said: “[Trump] wants to get rid of Social Security.… He’s wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.”Truth: The ex-president has repeatedly said he wants to protect Medicare...