President Biden repeats false claim about inflation rate when he first took office in interviews with CNN and Yahoo! Finance, despite fact-checking showing otherwise
Key Points
Inflation rate was at 1.4% when Biden took office in January 2021 and peaked at 9.1% in June 2022
Biden claimed inflation was at 9% when he first took office in interviews, which has been fact-checked as false
Cons
President Biden repeating false information in interviews
Lack of challenge from interviewers on the false claim