Republican fact-checked on accusation against Joe Biden during interview

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1. By Rachel Dobkin:

   Republican North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was fact-checked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during an interview on Sunday about his accusation that President Joe Biden is using executive orders more than other presidents, and countered his claim that the Democratic incumbent is a “dictator.”

   While filling in for hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, Collins confronted Burgum on CNN’s State of the Union, with multiple clips of the governor claiming that Biden is a dictator. In one of the clips, Burgum says, “This is what’s happening under Joe Biden. We’re actually living under a dictatorship today.”

   Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/doug-burgum-fact-checked-accusation-joe-biden-executive-orders-1916235](https://www.newsweek.com/doug-burgum-fact-checked-accusation-joe-biden-executive-orders-1916235)

2. >”We’ve got three branches of government and this president, more like any other, has bypassed Congress.

   Biden only had to issue an EO on the border because Republicans in Congress refused to vote for a border bill, one which gave them what they wanted, because Trump asked them not to. Maybe Republicans in Congress should start doing their job then.

   And to no one’s surprise, he refuses to acknowledge how Trump issued far more EOs, let alone criticize that.

   >He continued: “On the student loan thing, when the Supreme Court ruled against him, then he just said, ‘Hey, we’ll figure a different way to do it.’ I just think that there’s again, a double standard here.

   So Biden’s been working hard to find other ways to forgive student loans once his initial plan got struck down… *and that’s actually what a good President does*.

   >and promoting clean energy. On his first day in office, Biden ordered federal agencies to reinstate or strengthen over 100 environmental regulations that Trump rolled back.

   Trump rolled those back via EO, and he’s mad at Biden for reversing those? Cue hypocrisy.

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

4. Where was the fact checking?

5. CNN seems to enjoy getting steamrolled by Republican douchelords. It’s so disgraceful that they are given a platform to spew BS.

6. This is the guy likely trying to buy his way into the vice presidency. Trump needs money, and may not live for many more years.

   So we’d have a creepy Republican tech rich guy, one heartbeat away from being head dictator.

7. I guess work would be done if only the Republicans would stop trying to please their Dear Leader and get some legislation done.

   So many games being played while the US suffer humiliation around the world.

8. Isn’t it fascinating that they’ve deplored AWS AI analytics in sports games, but no news stations have used it to keep the record straight?

   You’d think the shareholders would want it to avoid record setting Dominion cases and to make sure they’re fulfilling the factual, balanced coverage that they advertises!

9. This guy lies and says Biden is a dictator who has used more executive orders than anyone in history.

   [According to the Federal Register, an official journal of the U.S. government, Biden has signed 139 executive orders so far, while Trump signed 220 during his tenure. Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama signed 277 executive orders and former President George W. Bush signed 291](https://imgflip.com/i/8utp7h)

   These people lie because they know their voters are idiots who don’t care they are being bullshitted.

10. Right on schedule, here we go with the “executive order = dictator” bullshit that happens every 4 years.

11. He sounds like he has just the right amount of lemming juice running in his veins to be a Trump VP.

12. Facts! Wasn’t it the Republicans who introduced us to the concept of “alternative facts”?

13. When do we reach a point where we assume everything a Republican says is a lie?

14. Here’s hoping Trump accuses Biden of being a dictator at the debate by citing his exec order record, despite the fact that Trump signed a helluva lot more EO’s than Biden.

    We won’t be surprised, either, if Trump accuses Biden at the debate of cheating on his wife, being a lifelong criminal, and grabbing women by the pussy because they let you when you’re famous.

15. He answered like 2 out of 30 questions. He’s the perfect VP pick.

16. The trump cult must be stomped so hard it dies and goes away.