Fact check: Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy makes at least 5 false claims in 7-minutes

[Nevilledog]

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Daniel Dale
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Attacking Biden, Kevin McCarthy claimed Sunday that oil prices were at the highest level we’ve seen. Aside from the fact that presidents don’t control oil prices - prices were A) not even at half the all-time high and B) not even at the Trump-era high:

Fact check: Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy makes at least 5 false claims in 7-minute Fox...
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy made at least five false claims during a seven-minute Sunday interview on Fox News.
cnn.com
10:06 AM · Aug 25, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/politics/fact-check-kevin-mccarthy-fox-news-bartiromo-august/index.html

Washington (CNN)House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy made at least five false claims during a seven-minute Sunday interview on Fox News.

McCarthy uttered inaccurate statements to host Maria Bartiromo about a wide variety of topics -- oil prices, inflation, prisoners released in Afghanistan, the behavior of Democratic state legislators, and the content of an elections bill supported by congressional Democrats.

Here is a fact check.

Oil prices

Trying to liken President Joe Biden's tenure to the 1970s era of former President Jimmy Carter, which was beset by inflation and oil-related challenges, McCarthy claimed that oil prices are now "the highest that we have seen."

Facts First: McCarthy was wrong. Oil prices under Biden are not even close to the highest we have ever seen. Crude prices peaked in 2008 under Republican President George W. Bush -- more than double their level at the time McCarthy's interview aired Sunday. Crude prices were also higher at various points under Republican President Donald Trump than they were on Sunday.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Or the Bush Cheney era. Gas was way more expensive under B/C's control

Of course they made more to win by their buddies over there controlling everything price wise.