copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2022-01-20): When President Joe Biden passingly said in a voting rights speech last week that he had been "arrested" in the context of the civil rights movement – even suggesting this had happened more than once – it was a classic Biden false claim: an anecdote about his past for which there is no evidence, prompted by a decision to ad-lib rather than stick to a prepared text, resulting in easily avoidable questions about his honesty. [...] Biden made a series of claims about his own past that were just not true. It was these easy-to-understand, hard-to-defend personal falsehoods – more than his false claims about complex policy issues or obscure statistics, which supporters could more easily dismiss as good-faith errors – that provided the best ammunition for opponents looking to portray him as deceptive. [...] While talking in November to technical college students standing near a truck, Biden claimed, "I used to drive a tractor-trailer," though only for "part of a summer." This was similar to something he had said at a Mack Trucks facility in July, when he claimed, "I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man," adding, "I got to." There is no evidence Biden ever drove a big truck; the White House previously noted to CNN that he once had a job driving a school bus (which is not an 18-wheeler or a tractor-trailer) and that, as a senator in 1973, he spent a night riding in a cargo truck (not driving it).
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2023-04-25): As Biden announces re-election campaign, Al Jazeera looks at some of the major issues his administration has handled. Washington, DC – Joe Biden’s record as United States president will weigh heavily on his re-election chances as he seeks a second term in the White House. [...] One of the defining issues in the election was abortion rights. Less than five months prior, the US Supreme Court had overturned the constitutional right to abortion, a decision that Biden decried as an attack on women’s reproductive freedom.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2021-04-30): Analysis: This was a strange claim — and it was a comment Biden also made during the campaign. But it did not add up. During the Obama administration, it became clear that Xi Jinping, then the vice president, was in line to become the next leader of China. He was largely a mystery to U.S. officials, so Biden was assigned the task of getting to know him. In 2011, Biden traveled to China and over the course of three days met with Xi in various settings. They had a bilateral meeting and formal dinner in Beijing on Aug. 18, co-hosted a business dialogue on Aug. 19 and then visited the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province, along with a high school about 50 miles away in an area where a 2008 earthquake had left 86,000 people dead or missing. They also had a lengthy dinner together in Chengdu. Afterward, Biden flew on to Mongolia. In 2012, Xi visited the United States.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-10-05): While policy proposals have featured heavily on the campaign trail, other headlines have also spread widely on social media. Here are some of those viral stories you might have missed this week:
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2020-05-01): A Facebook post claims that Biden said on the show that whatever he did in the past shouldn’t be made public while he runs for president. The post reads: "‘The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office’ — Joe Biden this morning on MSNBC…" [...] A Facebook post claims Biden went on MSNBC and said, "The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office."
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2023-10-20): Remarks by President Biden on the United States’ Response to Hamas’s Terrorist Attacks Against Israel and Russia’s Ongoing Brutal War Against Ukraine 8:02 P.M. EDT [...] That’s why, tomorrow, I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs, to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine. [...] Let me close with this. Earlier this year, I boarded Air Force One for a secret flight to Poland. There, I boarded a train with blacked-out windows for a 10-hour ride each way to Kyiv to stand with the people of Ukraine ahead of the one-year anniversary of their brave fight against Putin.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-07-13): If I make it, it won’t be because of power brokers within the Democratic Party and it won’t be because of billionaire donors. [...] All of us have noticed America’s political dynamics are moving in a disturbing direction. Donald Trump’s power is on the incline, and President Biden’s is on the decline. More and more people are saying the quiet part out loud: that despite the fact that the President deserves credit for many of his accomplishments, he is clearly a weak candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024. [...] As Americans, we need a season of repair, a new beginning, a renewed faith in what’s possible. Our political imaginations can flourish once more, if we allow the better angels of our nature to emerge among us. I dedicate this campaign to the people, to the spirit in our hearts, and to the possibility of fundamental change.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2020-06-25): As a society, we are still dealing with the fallout from these revelations and trying to determine what kind of controls, if any, should be placed on social media platforms when it comes to political advertising. The debate was reignited in November 2019, when Facebook refused to take down a misleading anti-Biden ad released by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. As the 2020 election draws closer, we need to take a look at the policies that social media platforms are implementing for political ads, and what the implications are for our democratic process. [...] The same doesn’t hold true for someone running for political office who runs an ad making false claims about their opponent. Why? Because political ads are considered political speech, and First Amendment law protects political speech above all other types of speech. The government has more leeway to penalize or censor commercial speech, but it has very little authority to regulate political ads. The rationale behind this is that voters have a right to uncensored information from candidates, which they can then evaluate themselves before making their decisions at the ballot box. [...] In October 2019, President Trump’s reelection campaign released a 30-second video ad accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of promising Ukraine funds for firing a prosecutor investigating a company with ties to Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The Biden campaign objected to this ad and asked various media outlets and platforms to take it down. The responses to this request have shed light on the different approaches that companies are taking to misinformation in political advertisements.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-03-24): My thought process is simple: I cannot in good conscience vote for Biden, who has entirely neglected his duty as president to secure the border and has weaponized the Department of Justice against pro-lifers, alongside countless other abuses of power and failed policies. [...] We criticize Democrats for voting for the "Weekend-At-Bernie’s"-esque candidate: Biden. But we also need to have standards, even if that means potentially losing an election to prove that point. [...] As for Republicans, we should not fall victim to the lie that the fate of the country is at stake with this election. That rhetoric is helpful for rallying voters to your side but is dishonest. Our country will survive Biden’s first disastrous presidency, and it can survive another four years.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2020-10-30): "To tell you the truth," he said, "while I’m giving interviews and talking about things, one part of my mind is working on technical problems, which are much more interesting." Our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, is below. [...] Read More About the 2020 Election - Why Joe Biden must win. [...] - Sign up for our election newsletter for insight and analysis from our reporters and columnists.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-01-17): From death threats against previously anonymous bureaucrats and public-health officials to a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor and the 6 January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, acts of political violence in the United States have skyrocketed in the last five years.2 The nature of political violence has also changed. The media’s focus on groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Boogaloo Bois has obscured a deeper trend: the "ungrouping" of political violence as people self-radicalize via online engagement. According to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), which maintains the Global Terrorism Database, most political violence in the United States is committed by people who do not belong to any formal organization. [...] Copyright © 2021 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press Image Credit: lev radin/Shutterstock.com.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2021-08-06): Because that, after all, is why we serve. Not to score points or take credit, but to make people’s lives better. (Applause.) [...] And that’s why, for the past eight years, I’ve worked to put the fight against terrorism on a firmer legal footing. That’s why we’ve ended torture, worked to close Gitmo, reformed our laws governing surveillance to protect privacy and civil liberties. (Applause.) That’s why I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans, who are just as patriotic as we are. (Applause.) [...] To Joe Biden — (applause) — the scrappy kid from Scranton who became Delaware’s favorite son — you were the first decision I made as a nominee, and it was the best. (Applause.) Not just because you have been a great Vice President, but because in the bargain, I gained a brother. And we love you and Jill like family, and your friendship has been one of the great joys of our lives. (Applause.)
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2023-10-27): I had never encountered a politician so openly reckoning with what his pursuit of power had cost, much less one doing so while still in office. Candid introspection and crises of conscience are much less expensive in retirement. But Romney was thinking beyond his own political future. [...] After that, he made his way to the Russell Building, where he broke the news to his senior staff. Some were surprised but approving; others were distressed. One staffer simply put her head in her hands. She didn’t speak or look up again for the rest of the meeting. [...] But he was now at an age when he had to ruthlessly guard his time. He still had books he wanted to write, still dreamed of teaching. He wanted to spend time with Ann while they were both healthy.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-08-19): When President Joe Biden finally dropped out as the 2024 Democratic nominee on July 21, I was not one of the many people celebrating his endorsement of the vice president. Harris was on the wrong side of history as San Francisco’s district attorney when she opposed criminal justice reform, and she has been on the wrong side of history in regards to Israel, which she is a staunch supporter of. [...] Many of us spend our days scrolling through the most horrific images imaginable – toddlers beheaded by Israeli air strikes, people burned alive in their tents, emaciated children who die of starvation, political prisoners brutally raped by Israeli soldiers. The atrocities go on and on. My days and nights are haunted by these images, and none of this would be possible without US aid, without our tax dollars. [...] The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2023-11-29): Attorney General Merrick Garland recently appointed a special counsel to investigate President Joseph Biden and his administration’s handling of classified documents, months after beginning an investigation into President Donald Trump’s storage of classified files at his Florida home. Trump is also facing criminal investigations and civil litigation involving his actions on Jan. 6, his tax and business activities, alleged election interference and more. [...] There’s this new wrinkle with classified documents connected to Biden in addition to classified documents connected to Trump being found in their private homes and other spaces that aren’t supposed to house such information. As a matter of practice, not as a matter of logic, it becomes harder for the Justice Department to go after Trump because it will seem more plausible to more people that they have "done the same thing" … [even though] there are lots of differences between the cases. So the Justice Department has to think about that in deciding whether to indict and prosecute Trump. Hillary Clinton was not prosecuted despite retaining government documents, including classified government documents, so it makes it more difficult to prosecute Trump — not as a legal matter, but as a practical matter. In President Biden’s case, he’s not going to be prosecuted while he’s president. As I mentioned, the Justice Department has a rule that you can’t prosecute a sitting president. However, you can investigate a sitting president and you can gather evidence of a crime.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2013-02-02): Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden to the Munich Security Conference. Hotel Bayerischer Hof Munich, Germany 9:22 A.M. (Local) THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, Wolfgang, let me begin by saying thank you and our expectations are very high as well. (Laughter.) The good news is we’re not going anywhere. The bad news is we’re not going anywhere. (Laughter.) So you have nothing to worry about along those lines. It’s a delight to be back, and it’s a particular delight to be back here starting this morning off observing a tribute to an old friend. One of the great privileges of my career is that I was elected the same year that Sam Nunn was, in 1972, to the United States Senate. And in 1976, one of my -- our closest friends in the Senate arrived. His name was Dick Lugar. I had the privilege of over 30 years chairing or sitting alongside of Dick Lugar on the Foreign Relations Committee. And Sam and Dick and I can say one thing that is rare in politics period, in American politics now: I don’t ever remember there being a harsh word exchanged in over 36 years among any of the three of us. [...] But then again, I am an American; I look forward to competition. Thank you. (Applause.) END 9:57 A.M. (Local)
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-03-07): I came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in our nation’s history. [...] Keep building public trust, as I’ve been doing by taking executive action on police reform, and calling for it to be the law of the land, directing my Cabinet to review the federal classification of marijuana, and expunging thousands of convictions for mere possession, because no one should be jailed for using or possessing marijuana! [...] A public defender, county councilman, elected United States Senator at 29, then Vice President, to our first Black President, now President, with our first woman Vice President.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2016-10-20): AUDIENCE MEMBER: Nooo -- [...] So we've been busy. This is why I've got gray hair. (Laughter.) But we did one other thing. We fought to make sure that in America, health care is not just a privilege, but a right for every single American. And that’s what I want to talk about today. (Applause.) That's what I want to talk about here today. [...] END 2:40 P.M. EDT
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2024-09-16): I imagine he was thinking not only of the brave Americans who lost their lives on December 7, 1941, but of the friends he had served with and lost in the Pacific where he had been the Navy’s youngest aviator. [...] But as I’ve said, and John knows even after our toughest fights, John, saying to me, call me saying, "You know Biden should be taken off the ticket." And then he’d call me to say, "I didn’t really mean that. I don’t know what the hell made me say that." [...] And if you allow me to point a personal privilege again, we used to say in the Senate, and I want to say John how much your example of service and duty, courage and loyalty inspired my Beau in his decision as an Army National Guard Captain, later Major, to give up his Attorney General seat, turned it over to Republican to get permission to be able to go to Iraq for a year because his unit was going.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2010-11-03): And with so much at stake, what the American people don’t want from us, especially here in Washington, is to spend the next two years refighting the political battles of the last two. We just had a tough election. We will have another in 2012. I’m not so naïve as to think that everybody will put politics aside until then, but I do hope to make progress on the very serious problems facing us right now. And that’s going to require all of us, including me, to work harder at building consensus. [...] And that's something that we all need to remember right now and in the coming months. And if we do, I have no doubt that we will continue this nation’s long journey towards a better future. [...] But what is absolutely true is that with all that stuff coming at folks fast and furious -- a recovery package, what we had to do with respect to the banks, what we had to do with respect to the auto companies -- I think people started looking at all this and it felt as if government was getting much more intrusive into people’s lives than they were accustomed to.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Joe Biden launched his candidacy for president in 2019 with the words "we are in the battle for the soul of this nation." He was right. And though it wasn’t obvious at first to many Democrats, he was the best person to wage that fight. He was a genial but also shrewd campaigner for the restoration of what legislators call "regular order." [...] Biden has in many ways remade himself as president. He is no longer the garrulous glad-hander I met when I first covered Congress more than four decades ago. He’s still an old-time pol, to be sure, but he is now more focused and strategic; he executes policies systematically, at home and abroad. As Franklin Foer writes in "The Last Politician," a new account of Biden’s presidency, "he will be remembered as the old hack who could." [...] I hope Biden has this conversation with himself about whether to run, and that he levels with the country about it. It would focus the 2024 campaign. Who is the best person to stop Trump? That was the question when Biden decided to run in 2019, and it’s still the essential test of a Democratic nominee today.
Claim: Quotes Joe Biden as saying, “The things I did while in elected office should not be made public while I am seeking a higher public office.” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-01)
Evidence (2015-05-12): But the one thing I guess I want to say, E.J., is that when I think about my own Christian faith and my obligations, it is important for me to do what I can myself -- individually mentoring young people, or making charitable donations, or in some ways impacting whatever circles and influence I have. But I also think it's important to have a voice in the larger debate. And I think it would be powerful for our faith-based organizations to speak out on this in a more forceful fashion. [...] And that emphasis I think is why he’s had such incredible appeal, including to young people, all around the world. And I hope that that is a message that everybody receives when he comes to visit here. I can't wait to host him because I think it will help to spark an even broader conversation of the sort that we're having today. [...] END 12:55 P.M. EDT
Claim: "Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right." (Tammy Baldwin, 2022-05-04)
Evidence (2022-05-04): Constitutional law scholars say that it’s uncommon, but not entirely unprecedented, for the U.S. Supreme Court to take away a constitutional right. In the 1930s, for example, the court repudiated a 1905 decision to protect "right of contract" under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, which essentially allowed employers and employees to set their own terms of employment and previously led the court to strike down laws setting minimum wage, maximum hours and working conditions. In 1990, a Supreme Court decision reversed an earlier decision that had acknowledged the right to religious exemptions to "generally applicable" laws under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.