While delivering remarks on expanding access to mental health care in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, President Biden made an eyebrow-raising claim; he said he cured cancer.
“One of the things I’m always asked is: You know, why — why Americans have sort of lost faith for a while on being — being able to do big things,” Biden began.
“If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do?” he continued. “I said, ‘I’d cure cancer.’ And they looked at me like, ‘Why cancer?’ Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We’ve ended cancer as we know it.”
Fact check: Biden has NOT cured cancer.
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The White House edited the transcript to clean up after Joe’s flub, changing his words instead to say “We can end cancer as we know it.”
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