How bad has Joe Biden’s fabulism become? He’s now getting assigned Pinocchios by his own White House comms teams. Yesterday, reporters pressed Biden to explain Joe Manchin’s surprise announcement of opposition to his Build Back Better bill while the White House claimed negotiations were continuing. Biden expressed confidence that he and Manchin could still cut a deal together, but then claimed that Manchin had admitted to at least one House Democrat that he had “misled” Biden:
BIDEN: You know, I told you before, you heard me say this before. Some people think maybe I’m not Irish based on holding a grudge. Look, I want to get things done. I still think there’s a possibility of getting Build Back Better done. What I don’t want is to get into it, and Joe went on TV today and — uh, not on TV or not. I’m told he was speaking to a liberal caucus in the House and said, “Joe Biden didn’t mislead you, I misled him.”