Throughout the four years of President Trump’s term in office, media and Democrats (I repeat myself) pounced on every utterance, snipped every few words out of context that they could, twisted them into apparent lies, and screamed them to the nation in loudly shocked voices. “How could he!” And then they repeated them, over and over again. And every time someone repeated a supposed lie, even after it had been debunked, they marked it down. One “lie” repeated by ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and CBS on the morning news became six “lies.” Repeated again on the midday news, 12 “lies,” Evening news, 18 “lies.” And so, to Democrats and Never Trumpers and other uninformed people, President Trump became a president who never told the truth.
And yet, he didn’t lie. He sometimes embellished the number of people in a crowd, for example, but considering that the crowds that came to hear him always numbered in the thousands, what difference did a thousand here or there make? And no, the FBI didn’t “wire-tap” him, they listened in on the phone of one of his campaign staff. “Wire-tap” is the terminology of Trump’s generation. Incorrect verbiage, but correct in fact. The “Big Lie” that the 2016 election was stolen from him has every probability of being true. Wisconsin has invalidated a large number of votes that were cast in that election because they were not cast according to the state constitution. Other states have found proof of questionable votes and other irregularities.
Just before the election, the Washington Post printed a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop being found and that it had information on it incriminating Joe Biden as possibly selling access to himself as vice president to foreign businessmen. Democrats squashed the article by getting together a bunch of former government officials who had never seen the laptop but who swore it “had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.” The FBI, who had the laptop and knew it was the real deal, kept silent. Every other news organization, except for conservative ones, jumped on the bandwagon to condemn the story, and after a word from the FBI, Facebook wiped all mentions of it as did Twitter. Later, a poll showed that 18% of those who voted for Biden would not have voted for him if they had known the laptop story was true. That would have given the election to Trump. So, the “Big Lie” wasn’t a lie either.
Biden, on the other hand, is a compulsive liar. He cannot stop himself. He is the man, who, if you are telling him about your vacation to Tahiti will tell you that about the horrible sunburn he got when he was there, even though he had never been there at all. Somehow, he is not enough just being Joe Biden. He must make himself bigger and better with all of these stories, many of them borrowed from others, most of them easy to disprove, and all of them the last thing you want in the leader of your country.
Biden’s history of lying began early in his career. He was accused of plagiarizing a law review article in a paper he wrote during his first year at law school and he eventually admitted to it, although he said the plagiarism wasn’t “malevolent.”
During his 1988 presidential run, he plagiarized from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock, from Robert Kennedy, and from President John F. Kennedy. These acts of plagiarism probably cost him the election.
He has claimed to have been a professor, even though he only had an honorary position and never taught a class.
He claimed to have visited Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967, which he did not do.
He said he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa but that was another man’s story.
He said he was arrested multiple times during Civil Rights protests. But Biden was not a Civil Rights activist at all. In fact, his mentor in Congress was a former Grand Cyclops of the KKK and Biden actively opposed busing for desegregation, claiming it would make his kids go to school in “a racial jungle.”
He claimed he was an award-winning student who earned three degrees but he actually
graduated very near the bottom of his class in law school.
He claimed his first wife was killed in an accident by a drunk driver, but according to police reports, the other driver was not drunk and the accident was caused when she ran through a stop sign.
He claimed his son Beau died in Iraq, but Beau was not a combat infantryman. He was a lawyer in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Office, and he died of cancer in a Houston, Texas hospital bed in 2015.
Biden claimed to have grown up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Delaware but as only about 2000 people of Puerto Rican descent lived in the entire state when he was a child, it seems unlikely and no Puerto Ricans were mentioned in his 2007 memoir Promises to Keep.
Biden said at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony in May that he was appointed to the military school in 1965 by the late Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R-Del). But Boggs’ archives makes no mention of the appointment. The date also makes this lie implausible as he graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 before going on to law school at Syracuse University. The Naval Academy doesn’t offer graduate degrees. They only take undergraduate students.
Biden has told at least eight times as president a tale involving a former Amtrak conductor who told him as he boarded a train that he rode more miles on Amtrak than on Airforce Two. The point of the story is to underscore his love of passenger rail. However, he repeatedly places the conversation at various points late in his term as vice-president, when the Amtrak conductor was already dead and two decades after the conductor had retired, making it impossible for the conversation to ever have happened.
Biden’s need to lie in order to try to fit in with his audiences surfaces over and over. Last September he told Jewish leaders that he remembered “spending time at” and “going to” Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history, in which 11 people were murdered. The synagogue said he never visited. Then, hosting Jewish leaders at the White House for High Holy Holidays in early October, he told the audience, “I probably went to shul more than many of you did,” referring to the Beth Shalom synagogue in Wilmington, Delaware where he grew up. “I’m a practicing Catholic but I — I’d go to church on Saturday and on Sunday.” It is highly unlikely that a “good Catholic boy” would be allowed by his parents to attend services at a Synagogue during Biden’s youth, a time when although the Catholic Church was beginning to find common ground with some Protestant denominations and beginning to recognize the worth of studying Jewish history as the basis of Christianity, Catholics were still not encouraged to visit non-Catholic churches, and if they did, were expected not to participate in the service.
Yet, according to Biden, this young Catholic boy spent more time in non-Catholic churches than in his own church. Because, in addition to his claim of weekly visits to Jewish services, he told a black audience that he was practically raised in a black church. If his claims were true, none of these churches managed to instill in him God’s commandments “Thou shalt not kill” as he is a proponent of abortion on demand or “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
When visiting Florida after hurricane Ian, Biden saw homes flattened and some burned as a result of the storm. In an attempt to sound understanding, he recounted to the crowd that his own house burned down with his wife in it due to a fire caused by a lightning strike. On another occasion he said two firemen were killed fighting that house fire. Although the fire department was called, according to them, it was an insignificant fire. It only took them 20 minutes to get it under control and it was contained in the kitchen with minimal damage to the rest of the house and no injuries. Not to his wife. Not to any firemen.
His most notable lie is his oft-repeated claim that Trump never condemned the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists at the infamous 2017 Charlottesville rally despite the video tape which shows that Trump clearly condemned them.
Biden took credit for pushing through the COVID vaccine, even though the entire country knew it was the product of President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed which produced it and that Biden himself had gotten his COVID shot on December 21, exactly one month BEFORE taking office.
Biden takes credit for jobs “created” on his watch, even though they’re almost entirely jobs lost during the pandemic that have come back since the economy opened up.
Biden repeatedly reminds the country of the Inflation Reduction Act, the passage of which, he claims, has brought down inflation as it was intended to do. However, the Act was really not intended to bring down inflation at all. It passed in early September just as the inflation numbers of 8.3% in August over August of 2021 came in. Septembers year over year was 8.2%, however, the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% from August, so things are not getting better at all. Increases in the price of food, rent, and medical care were offset by a 4.9% drop in gas prices, causing the drop from 8.3% to 8.2%, but gas prices in October have jumped and are on the rise again. And the cost of winter heating faces us. The Inflation Reduction Act was another big lie.
We expect politicians to lie to make themselves and their records look good, but Biden can’t seem to stop himself. And his lies can so easily be proven false and so often hurt innocent people. For example, when a photographer took pictures on the border of Border Patrol agents on horseback, from his camera angle it made them seem to be whipping the illegal aliens. Biden made the following comment. “To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped — it’s outrageous. I promise you,” he continued “those people will pay. There will be an investigation underway now, and there will be consequences. There will be consequences.” But it was a lie. Recently released emails show that BEFORE those comments and similar comments made by Homeland Security Director Mayorkas, the Biden administration knew that those were long reins and not whips and that not a single illegal had been whipped by a Border Agent. Still, Biden allowed an investigation to continue and when the agents were eventually cleared of wrongdoing, he had them punished anyway.
That Biden is a pathological liar seems undeniable. That he is losing his grip on reality also seems more and more obvious. Put the two together in the “leader of the free world” and we have an immense problem, a problem that the Democrat leadership ignores in order to keep their tenuous grip on power. But at what price?