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Not surprisingly, the self-appointed “fact checkers” in the media went to town on Donald Trump’s remarks during Thursday’s debate, picking apart every utterance and rating them false even if they were mostly true. Also not surprising, President Joe Biden got a relative free pass. (Although to be fair to fact-checkers, it was often hard to tell what Biden was trying to say.)

But what’s truly mind-boggling is that they missed the biggest lie Biden told all night. A lie that came out of his mouth as soon as he opened it. A lie that he then used to blame Trump for everything bad that has happened in the past three-and-a-half years.

Let’s roll the tape.

CNN’s Jake Tapper, to his credit, started the debate with a hardball question for Biden.

TAPPER: Let’s begin the debate. And let’s start with the issue that voters consistently say is their top concern, the economy.

President Biden, inflation has slowed, but prices remain high. Since you took office, the price of essentials has increased. For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100, then, now costs more than $120. And typical home prices have jumped more than 30%.

What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency than they were under President Trump?

BIDEN: We’ve got to take a look at what I was left when I became president, what Mr. Trump left me.

We had an economy that was in freefall. The pandemic was so badly handled. Many people were dying. All he said was it’s not that serious, just inject a little bleach in your arm. You’ll be all right.

The economy collapsed. There were no jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 15%. It was terrible.

And so, what we had to do is try to put things back together again.

Later Biden repeated the claim:

There was no inflation when I became president. You know why? The economy was flat on its back. 15% unemployment, he decimated the economy, absolutely decimated the economy. That’s why there was no inflation at the time. There were no jobs.

And then later: “Look what I’ve done. Look how I’ve turned around the horrible situation he left me.”

The economy was in a “freefall”? It was “flat on its back”? In a “horrible situation”?

These are 100%, solid-gold lies. And Biden knows it.

And they aren’t just penny-ante lies.

Biden justified his $2 trillion “rescue plan” on these lies. Now he’s using them to blame Trump for everything that’s gone wrong since.

Yet, the mainstream media never, ever call Biden out on this lie – a failing we’ve pointed out for years. (Just a few examples: In February 2021, we wrote: “Biden Invents An Economic Crisis To Justify His Reckless $1.9 Trillion COVID ‘Relief’,” and in July of that year we said “Biden Brags About ‘His’ Economic Recovery, But Has To Lie To Do It.” In March 2022 we wrote, “It’s Time To Kill This Big Fat Biden Lie Once And For All.”)

So, we will say it once again. The economy was going gangbusters when Biden took office.

The nation’s GDP was just inches away from a full recovery by the time Biden took office, as the chart below shows.

The stock market had already more than recovered and was reaching new highs. It’s been flat under Biden, after you factor in Bidenflation as the chart below shows.

Nearly two-thirds of the jobs lost during the lockdowns had been recovered at the end of Trump’s term – far more than economists had predicted. Still more would have been had it not been for liberal states that needlessly kept their economies shuttered and vast numbers of people out of work. Since Biden took office, job gains have failed to catch up, and now are no longer keeping up, with population growth.

Add up all the things Trump said in that debate that the media labeled false, and it doesn’t come close to the magnitude of this big, hairy, audacious Biden lie.