CNN Forced to Fact Check Joe Biden's CNN Town Hall

On Thursday night amid multiple crises of his administration's creation, President Joe Biden joined CNN for a town hall event hosted by Anderson Cooper and it went about as well as you could expect for a septuagenarian up past his bed time.

The morning after Biden and Cooper's conversation CNN itself published a fact check of what Biden claimed on the stage in Baltimore.

CNN's fact check points out that "CNN could not immediately find any evidence that Biden has previously visited the southern border, and the White House has not specified when this visit supposedly occurred," adding "Jill Biden's last visit to the border was in December 2019, during the presidential campaign, not as first lady."

As most Americans have already concluded - based on Biden's statements and the White House's inability to provide the details of some past visit to the border - Joe Biden hasn't been to the border.

At the CNN town hall, Biden also couldn't resist repeating the false statement about Fox News and its parent Fox Corp. that "They mandate vaccinations." Probably reluctantly, CNN points out that this is false, explaining "Fox Corp. does not actually require that employees get vaccinated," and allows those who choose not to get a vaccine to instead get tested.

CNN's fact checkers weren't the only ones busy as President Biden spun yarns and misstated his way through the town hall, even White House officials were busy trying to explain what Biden "Meant to say."

Biden didn't buy up all the doses - the Trump administration had purchased 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna in December, weeks before Biden was inaugurated.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/10/22/cnn-forced-to-fact-check-joe-bidens-cnn-townhall-n2597864