Media, Politics

“A Blatant Lie”: The Biden Campaign Falsely Accuses Fox’s John Roberts of Lying About the Insulin Caps

Winston Churchill once said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” It often seems like the Biden White House and campaign has embraced that warning as an operating principle. The most recent target was the veteran Fox news anchor John Roberts, who was accused of airing “a blatant lie” in questioning Biden’s claim that he was the first president to push through a cap of $35 on insulin treatments. Roberts was entirely correct, but the campaign has still not removed the false attack on his integrity and accuracy.

In the interests of full disclosure, I am a legal analyst for Fox News and I have known Roberts for decades. There is no one who I hold in higher regard for his integrity or his intellect than John Roberts. We have known and worked with each other at different networks through the years. Roberts is an old-school journalist with impeccable credentials.

Yesterday, the Biden campaign launched the attack on Roberts for his questioning of the claim of President Joe Biden that he solely secured the insulin cap. Roberts remarked that he had a recollection that it was former President Donald Trump who pushed the cap.

“I seem to remember that back in May of 2020, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid said that President Trump had signed an executive order to cap the price of insulin for Medicare recipients at 35 bucks. Now, maybe I’m misremembering that, but I think it kind of already happened.”

The Biden campaign then called it “a blatant lie” in a posting on X that has reached over a million people.

Contrary to the Biden campaign’s claims, Roberts’s recollection was entirely correct. Under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in May 2020 that the Part D Senior Savings Model participating plans would cap insulin copays to $35 per month’s supply, and over 1,750 Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans applied to offer lower insulin costs.

Trump praised the new policy, which was widely covered by the press.

There was a Rose Garden event where Trump was praised for his actions:

Trump later, in July 2020, signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the cost of insulin. That included Executive Order 13937, which required Federally Qualified Health Centers to pass 340B discounts on to patients. Notably, Biden later reversed Executive Order 13937 before those cost-saving measures could take effect.

This is obviously not the first false statement from the President. However, it is notable that his campaign spread obvious disinformation that was picked up by over a million people but then declined to take down the false claim. The campaign is now in a worse position. To take down the posting is to acknowledge not just that it has lied about Roberts, but that the President lied in taking sole credit for this cap.

This is the same administration supporting the banning, blacklisting, and throttling of those responsible for disinformation. I would not support such censorship of the campaign. This and other columns refuting the false account is sufficient to combat a “blatant lie” by the Biden campaign. Whether it is his uncle being eaten by cannibals or insulin caps, free speech can correct false claims without government regulation. However, President Biden and his administration continue to push for censorship of others accused for false or misleading statements.

The fact that John Roberts was right is hardly surprising. However, there remains a “blatant lie” on the Biden campaign’s social media that must still be corrected.

183 thoughts on ““A Blatant Lie”: The Biden Campaign Falsely Accuses Fox’s John Roberts of Lying About the Insulin Caps”

  2. The Roberts quote makes clear that he was not stating fact about the cap, but about his recollection of it, which he acknowledged could be faulty, while providing sources to go to for fact-checking. Ah, well, there are still those who insist that Russiagate was real and the reason for Trump’s victory, Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, and the Moon is made of green cheese.

    As for battling disinformation, did you hear the one about Scott Ritter’s passport being seized? How dare a former Marine and weapons inspector work for the truth?

    1. Ritter working for the truth?! LOL. Ritter has negative credibility. If he says something, the odds are good that the truth is the exact opposite.

  3. Oh yay! Another Biden lie as it relates to the border. Thank goodness this isn’t a drinking game, we’d surely die of alcohol poisoning.

    1. Huh? It’s another Biden lie all right, but what has this one got to do with the border?

  4. “Never trust a Man whose Uncle was eaten by Cannibals!”.

    Hat tip to that Ernst lady today!

    1. I’m betting that we will find out Thursday that Biden’s uncle who was eaten by cannibals in 1943 landed on Utah Beach on 6/6/1944… AFTER first parachuting in to St. Mere Eglise that morning

  5. What?
    The Biden campaign said a lie, got caught, and are now ignoring the fact they lied?
    I am shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

    1. They’re not ignoring that they lied,
      they’re lying about their lie.
      Doubling down on their dishonesty.

  7. This article took me to the Biden-Harris HQ website on X. It informed me about what else these people are up to including the misinformation that is being spread about Project 2025 – The Presidential Transition Project.

  8. I’m sorry, but it’s true: for the past 15 or so years, any time a modern dem has opened their mouth they are at the least distorting the truth; that has just escalated into blatant, patent dishonesty with this administration, and they really do hope you are too stupid to notice. This is not remotely new for Biden, but it IS important to keep shining a light on it, so thank you, Professor, for your integrity, particularly as a member of the party in question. The modern DNC is a regime, and that is a complete sentence.

    1. James,
      Well, they know their lackeys in MSM will repeat the lie for them and as we all know, most who watch MSM, will just accept it as the truth. How many times have we seen an false headline, but it is not until you get down into the sixth paragraph that they admit the reality of the situation aka the truth.
      But those who watch MSM dont read past the headline.

  9. Remembering that I’ve openly stated that…

    “The political left has shown its pattern of propaganda lies within their narratives so many times that it’s beyond me why anyone would blindly accept any narrative that the political left, their lapdog Pravda-USA media, their woke consumed bureaucracy, or their activist supporters actively push?”

    I’ve thought a lot about why the political left lies the way they do and I think I’ve come up with a conclusion that might be logically supportable.

    “The reason the political left lies so often MUST be because the actual truth will not support their candidates, their policies or their ideology; otherwise, why would they lie.”

    I’m really curious as to what the commentary here on Jonathan Turley’s blog would say to that observation?

    1. Steve,
      Well, I would say that is a pretty accurate conclusion.
      As it has been noted in the past, Democrats do not want to debate as their policies fail every time.

  10. Thank you Jonathan Turley for correcting the record. Biden is a perpetual liar.

  11. This is exactly how to deal with “misinformation”, i.e. lies, a quick refutation with facts to support it. Nicely done. Sadly it really won’t matter. The lie will continue to circulate like the “good people” lie that never goes away.

    1. The media won’t report that the Biden administration lied about the insulin cap. They will print a lie on the front page and then ‘perhaps’ expose the truth somewhere where no one will see it. It kills me when I talk politics with liberals and they only know the lies that were originally reported when a story first comes out. I listened to Bill Mahrer tell Megyn Kelly had policemen were killed on Jan 6. She told him that wasn’t true and he still persisted that it was.

      1. Exactly. Refute what they have heard and believe to be true and they may politely listen but they don’t accept your truth (which is actually the truth!)

  13. And ADA CEO Tracey D. Brown did not know this? This makes me wonder about the integrity of the ADA being Ms. Brown especially saying she also a diabetic?

  14. This is obviously not the first false statement from the President.

    Understatement of the year. Seriously, has he ever told the truth?

  15. I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to saying it until there is a very noticeable change in the pattern I’ve observed…

    “The political left has shown its pattern of propaganda lies within their narratives so many times that it’s beyond me why anyone would blindly accept any narrative that the political left, their lapdog Pravda-USA media, their woke consumed bureaucracy, or their activist supporters actively push?”

    As far as I’m concerned, the observed pattern is self-evident. I don’t believe any narrative that the political left pushes, period. The Democrats don’t seem to give a damn about the consequences of their actions to the United States of America, they seem to want to fundamentally change the USA into some cultish tribe of stupid controllable sheeple.

    Reading, watching, and listening to the constant propaganda from the political left parroting obvious nonsense, mouthing cherry picked half-truths, boldly proclaiming mind-numbingly ignorant talking points, projectile vomiting one false narrative after another, and looking straight into the eyes of the American people and telling us bald-faced lies during this presidential election campaign season is going to be intolerable.

    I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  16. This how the ‘left’ progs behave: lie, misinform, cheat, steal, attack….we are just learning…and we better take care of this situation…….

    1. edwardmahl,
      I would add to that, morals, values, decency, objective thinking, critical thinking, reason.

  18. Can’t believe there is a comment about a “lie” in a political campaign without mention of Trump’s Big Lie about 2020 election.

    2. At least you are consistent in your daily/weekly ability to deflect as this is not about the 2020 election. Roberts is 100% correct and the Pravda style Biden deflection mirrors the fact twisting of the Obama years. Also, if you mention the “Big Lie” of 2020 without mentioning the Big Lie after the election of 2016 then you are either naive (which you are not) or are a purveyor of deceptive/deflective and manipulative propaganda yourself

  19. When Biden isn’t lying, he’s gaslighting us. Fortunately for those who’ve woken up, can see clearly through his BS.

  20. People must understand that reasoning or negotiating with the Left is no longer an option and that they’re committed to destroying the country. The only option is the one everyone avoids and hates to talk about — and then multiply it by 1000 with the Romanoving of the culprits the required solution.

    1. At long last America has arrived.

      The Communists under their Communist Manifesto are the direct and mortal enemies of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.

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