Biden was a private citizen in 2020. It's Trump's policies that all these Republicans seem to hate. (via MaddowBlog)
As the debt ceiling deadline approaches, and fears grow that this might be the time that congressional Republicans push the nation over the default cliff, President Joe Biden routinely tries to remind the American public about the significance of the danger. The Democrat published a tweet on the subject on Saturday morning.
“Default would erase millions of jobs, trigger a recession, hit retirement accounts, and increase borrowing costs,”This didn’t seem especially controversial. In fact, every word of the message was true.on Saturday, which read in part: “You did all of that during your Communist COVID shutdowns. Don’t do it again to the American people Joe.”, Covid lockdowns created the same conditions in 2020 that the president is warning about now: erasing millions of jobs, triggering a recession, etc.
For now, let’s put aside Greene’s curious confusion about what “communist” means and instead focus on the more important problem with her argument: There were Covid lockdowns in 2020, but, at the time, Biden was a private citizen with no official powers or authority.
, it was a few months ago, for example, Greene blamed Biden administration’s policies for a Michigan woman whose sons died in 2020 — when, again, Biden was a private citizen.for “paying people to stay home” in 2020, referring to a law that Donald Trump signed the year before Biden took office.the Democratic president for Covid-related school closures in 2020 — which, again, was a year that Biden spent on the campaign trail, not in the Oval Office.to blame Biden for the U.S.
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