Fact-check: “Joe Biden said in May 2024 that inflation was 9% when he took office.”
Verdict: False (95% confidence)
The pronoun 'he' is unspecified, but the two most likely referents are both contradicted by BLS data. If 'he' is Trump (January 2025), inflation was 3.0% at inauguration, not 9%. If 'he' is Biden (January 2021), inflation was 1.4%. The 9.1% figure was the June 2022 peak during Biden's term — not an inauguration-month reading for either president.
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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