Joe Biden, presumed the winner of the presidential election according to mainstream media networks, issued a call for “unity” Saturday evening after a bruising campaign in which he had compared President Donald Trump to Nazis, including Adolf Hitler. Biden, who called his campaign a “battle for the soul of our nation,” launched his campaign in […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted the debunked “Charlottesville very fine people hoax” on Thursday in an attempt to blame President Donald Trump for a foiled kidnapping plot by members of a militia in Michigan. On Thursday, federal agents arrested half dozen alleged conspirators who had plotted to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The group shared […]

CLAIM: Both moderator Chris Wallace and Democrat nominee Joe Biden claimed that President Trump said in response to riots in Charlottesville in 2017 that neo-Nazis were “very fine people.” VERDICT: FALSE. Biden has repeated this hoax since the beginning of his campaign. Wallace knows better. As Breitbart News has noted in fact check after fact check: President […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden referred to the Charlottesville riots in August 2017 one last time on Election Day, as he addressed a small group of activists at a “get-out-the vote” event in his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden launched his campaign in April 2019 by claiming that he had been inspired to run […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden blamed President Donald Trump on Thursday for a foiled kidnapping plot by a group of extremists who intended to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The FBI arrested six named alleged co-conspirators and seven others on Thursday morning for conspiring to kidnap the governor. Though it did not name a specific […]

CLAIM: Joe Biden said (again) that President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis in Charlottesville “very fine people.” VERDICT: FALSE. Trump said the neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.” Biden knows he is lying about this. Former Vice President Joe Biden repeated the “very fine people” hoax in accepting the Democratic Party nomination in a speech to the […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden has used footage of Nazi dictator and mass murderer Adolf Hitler in a new campaign ad attacking President Donald Trump. The video, released by the Biden/Harris campaign on Oct. 25, combines Biden’s stump speech about the Charlottesville riots in August 2017 with the song “Where Is the Love” by the […]

CLAIM: Vice President Mike Pence claimed that President Donald Trump condemned the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville. VERDICT: TRUE. Pence debunked the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax. At long last, the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax has been deflated on the national stage. At the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah in […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden repeated the false claim that President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people” in Charlottesville, Virginia, adding the false claim that the president did not condemn the murder of a protester. President Trump condemned neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville in August 2017 — “totally,” and repeatedly: Aug. 12, 2017: Trump […]

CLAIM: President Donald Trump is a racist, as shown by Birtherism; Charlottesville; “Mexicans”; and the “Muslim ban.” VERDICT: FALSE. None of these examples is valid. All of them involve outright lies or significant omissions of context. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic Party nominee for vice president, told 60 Minutes on Sunday evening that she believed […]

President Donald Trump missed an opportunity in the first presidential debate when he failed to debunk Joe Biden’s infamous “Charlottesville very fine people hoax.” The hoax is the false claim that Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people” in 2017 when, in fact, he said they should be “condemned totally.” (The “fine people” were non-violent marchers […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden renewed his accusation that President Donald Trump is ignoring antisemitism — even though the president condemned it at length, once again, just a few weeks ago. Biden, speaking to an online fundraising event, claimed that the president was “not saying a word” about antisemitism, according to the pool report (via […]