Joe Biden Once Again Looking to Declare Independence from the Truth

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Posted: Jun 30, 2022 12:01 AM

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President Joe Biden’s Fourth of July disconnect about saving 16 cents for a hot dog was good for a chuckle in 2021. Fast forward a year and there’s not a lot to laugh about anymore, as anyone getting ready to hit the road and pay five bucks a gallon to fill up can attest.Background: Last July, the Biden White House was working very hard to push back on what we now know as the beginning of the worst inflation in a generation. On July 1, 2021, some poor communications staffer at 1600 Pennsylvania hit “send” on a tweet that then White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki surely thought was a mic drop moment. So entangled in fighting the truth, Team Biden really thought a 16 cent drop in price was worthy of a presidential celebration. For added measure, just two weeks later, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen would declare any inflation as “transitory.” In her defense, the economy was transitioning, just not in the direction of their spin. It was moving downward, and fast, driven in large part by the Administration’s unceasing war against America’s energy producers.As we prepare to make our nation’s independence in 2022, let’s take a short moment to remember all the times Biden and his team “misspoke” on the economy last year …