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Snopes says it's a 'mixture' of true and false that President Biden forgot the name of his defense secretary

As Twitchy reported Tuesday, a lot of people saw the evidence of why President Biden has gone 49 days without a solo press conference, breaking a record that goes back 100 years. During a speech, he seemed to forget the name of his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, substituting instead “the guy who runs that outfit over there.”

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Fact-checking site Snopes.com says it’s neither true nor false that Biden “forgot” Austin’s name, but if Snopes were serious about doing a fact-check, they’d check if Biden forgot the name of the Pentagon as well.

Instead, Snopes has decided it’s a “mixture” of true and false. It’s true that he fumbled his words, but Snopes says that perhaps Biden “got stuck doing an extended ‘folksy’ ad lib.”

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https://twitter.com/BearGarcia9/status/1369755954238132226

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We know what journalism is going to look like for the next four years, and we know what “fact-checking” is going to look like too.

Anyway, this is the point Biden was trying to get across:


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