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Falsehoods & Distortions
post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist.
10:12: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for the low unemployment rate after 10 months, when the rate had been falling for 7 consecutive years, before he took office.[6]
17:27: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for lowering taxes 18 times, when 11 of those 18 times were just renewals of tax breaks that already existed.[4]
01:53: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for creating 6 million jobs, when much of the job gains were a rebound from the 22 million jobs lost before Biden took office, due to the onset of the pandemic.[2]