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Fox News star just dropped a Biden diabetes bombshell

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President Joe Biden’s campaign attacked Fox News star John Roberts on Monday after he said that former President Donald Trump’s initiative in May 2020 was to thank for lower insulin costs, not Biden’s recent cap.

The Biden campaign’s rapid response team called Roberts report a “blatant lie.” Roberts responded with a diabetes bombshell that rocked the Biden campaign.

“Trump did not cap insulin costs, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise insulin costs for over a million Americans,” the Biden team wrote on social media.

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Roberts responded Tuesday with what one critic called a “four-minute evisceration of [Biden’s] shoddy fact check” on the White House and their insulin price caps.

“I remarked that I recalled back in May of 2020 that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had issued a press release that stated President Trump had a plan to lower insulin co-plays to $35,” Roberts said. “The Biden campaign’s rapid response issued a response on X. But there are receipts to dispute the Biden campaign’s claim about what I said.”

Roberts cited a press release that announced the cap of a “maximum $35 co-pay” for insulin for those under Medicare Part D plans and Medicare Advantage plans, following Trump’s executive order.

It read, in part —

  • Under President Trump’s leadership, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is announcing that many Medicare Part D plans and Medicare Advantage plans have applied to offer lower out-of-pocket insulin costs to seniors for the 2021 plan year.

  • Across the Nation, participating enhanced Part D plans will provide many seniors with Medicare access to a broad set of insulins at a maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply of each type of insulin.

Roberts said he was “in the Rose Garden that afternoon” 0f the 2020 announcement, “as were many other news organizations” and cited a Washington Post article on the executive order announcement from four years ago.

Roberts even pointed out that then-CEO of the American Diabetes Association, Tracey Brown, was personally on-hand at the 2020 event, thanking Trump and the Republican administration for their cost reduction plan.

“We invited a representative from the Biden campaign to come on the program with us to discuss the issue, but thus far they have made no one available,” Roberts concluded in his response.

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Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.