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Following the manufactured crisis of the leaked audio
between President Trump and Bob Woodward, Joe Biden’s social media team had to
take a swipe. However, the intern that is running the account decided to blast
out some truly mockable posts. If you have been sentient for more than a
decade, you may laugh out loud:
We certainly do. The reader must assume that the
implication is that Joe Biden is as honest as Abe and will never tell a lie.
Once you make that connection, you should collapse into hysterical laughter.
The aging septuagenarian has a long history of whoppers. In fact, one cost him
the nomination previously.
One has to wonder how many people have or will have to
suffer because of Biden’s lies. Here is a quick list of some of the more
egregious examples of Biden’s casual relationship with the truth.
1. Biden’s College Years
During a campaign stop in April of 1987, a member of the
audience asked him about his academic record. Here is the press coverage from
the time:
Note the final comment after Biden had to concede that
the account he gave was not correct. He said his memory had failed him. This
event was thirty-three years ago, and shortly before he underwent the first of two brain surgeries for a ruptured
aneurysm.
2. Biden’s Plagiarism Problem
Biden was forced to drop out of the 1988 race following
accusations of plagiarism. Under scrutiny, he had to admit he had a history of
using other people’s work. From The Washington Post:
The
collapse had begun 11 days earlier, with news that Biden had lifted phrases and mannerisms from
a British Labour Party politician while making closing remarks at a debate.
Examples soon surfaced of Biden using material from other politicians without
attribution, and he acknowledged he had been accused of plagiarism in law
school. To make matters worse, a video emerged of Biden exaggerating his
academic record while speaking angrily to a voter in New Hampshire.
“I
made some mistakes,” Biden, then a U.S. senator, told the press as he announced
the end of his candidacy, in a speech that was by turns regretful and defiant.
“But now, the exaggerated shadow of those mistakes has begun to obscure the
essence of my candidacy and the essence of Joe Biden.”
Notice, it was other people exaggerating his lying and
using the work of others that was the problem. Not the fact that he made things
up out of whole cloth. Joe Biden dropped out of his last presidential race
because he was a liar. But now he’ll be the president who doesn’t lie. M’kay.
In this campaign, his team has lifted a slogan and
climate plan directly from the United Nations, and much his latest economic and
COVID policies sound eerily like President Trump’s.
3. The Bidens’ Love Story
Joe and his wife, Jill, are fond of telling the story of
their romance. However, the information has varied over time. In one, Biden’s
brother, Frank, fixes them up after Joe sees Jill’s picture in an ad at the
airport. In another, they are fixed up on a blind date, and Joe had no idea who
he was meeting until he picked her up.
Jill’s ex-husband tells a very different story. Bill Stevenson alleges he and Jill
worked on Biden’s first campaign for the Senate in 1972 before Biden’s wife
died in a car crash. He says he considered Biden a friend.
Stevenson owned the Steel Balloon, which hosted
high-profile rock bands. He first became suspicious when Jill had the
opportunity to meet Bruce Springsteen and declined because she was going to
take care of Biden’s young sons, Beau and Hunter, after their mother’s death.
He believes Biden and Jill began an affair at some point
after Neilia Biden’s death, which was confirmed to him in October of 1974 when
Biden and Jill were allegedly in a fender-bender in Jill’s car. At that point,
Stevenson asked Jill to leave, and she did.
Stevenson was listed as one of the top 50 most influential men in the last 50 years in Delaware,
along with Biden on a 2012 list. He is an entrepreneur and businessman who
recently sold a product to Scotts Miracle-Gro. It doesn’t seem like he’s
telling tales for a payday, and the Biden’s have not commented.
4. Biden’s Tragic Loss
Joe Biden’s wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi
were killed in an auto accident after Biden won his Senate seat, but before he
was sworn in. This loss in and of itself was tragic. Indeed, a story that
needed no embellishment. But Biden can’t resist.
“A
tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch
instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly
and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons,” Mr.
Biden said in 2007.
In a
2001 speech at the University of Delaware, he referred to an “errant driver who
stopped to drink instead of drive” and “hit my children and my wife and killed
them,” according to a 2008 report in NewsBusters, citing a 2001 “Inside
Edition” report.
According to the investigator on the case:
Now-retired
Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, who oversaw the investigation as
chief deputy attorney general, told Politico, “She had a stop sign. The truck
driver did not.”
In
2008, he told the Post that rumors about alcohol playing a role in the accident
were “incorrect.”
The driver’s daughter says Biden called and apologized for
these statements. However, one has to wonder why he started making them thirty
years after the fact.
5. Where’s Hunter?
While the scandal-ridden son did appear at the DNC, it
was mostly to give a brief speech about how great his dad is and give an introduction
to a memorial video for his deceased brother Beau. Neither Joe Biden nor his
son has been honest about their dealings in Ukraine and China. At least Hunter was honest enough to say a lot of things have
come his way because of his last name. The real question is how many things
were given in exchange for those opportunities.
The graft of the Biden family is extensive enough that it
takes up 44 scrupulously sourced pages in Peter Schweizer’s book Profiles
in Corruption. It also takes up countless articles and podcasts from the
likes of John Solomon, Sara Carter, Greg Jarrett, and Dan Bongino.
Biden says he didn’t know about his son’s business deals.
This assertion is beyond parody given the number of photos and meetings that
have been disclosed of Biden with Hunter’s business associates and the
documented meetings and communications. The nominee is rarely asked about
these issues and typically evades them.
6. Biden’s Mask Is Ripped Off
When Joe Biden was asked about the rash of unusual
unmaskings of Trump’s incoming national security advisor, General Michael
Flynn, and the investigation that was launched, he initially said he knew
nothing about it. Later his name showed up on the declassified list of unmasking requests related to
Flynn. Even more damning, according to declassified extemporaneous notes taken by Peter Strozk, Biden was at a
critical meeting where the investigation into Flynn was discussed and was the
person who suggested Flynn be investigated under the Logan Act.
7. To Frack or Not to Frack?
Biden could not have been more explicit in the primary
debates and policy proposals. To reduce carbon emissions and save Gaia, he was
going to end new fracking permits and prohibit the practice on federal
land. In fact, when he was asked if he was willing to sacrifice thousands
of jobs in the oil and gas industry for his green policies, he said yes. Here
is a montage of his primary promises.
Because Pennsylvania is a must-win state for him and
industries related to fracking are influential there, Biden made a trip and
reversed himself. Did he lie to AOC and the radical left, or is he lying to
union workers in Pennsylvania? One will cost him enthusiasm; the other will
cost him votes.
8. Biden’s Voting Record
Biden was a sponsor of the 1994 crime bill he now runs
away from. It is his single biggest legislative accomplishment and one the
Obama administration never sought to remedy despite the sentencing disparities
it caused. There is so much in this video that Biden has run away
from—especially regarding racial oppression and economic disadvantage—that it
is wildly funny. Will the real Joe Biden please stand up?
Just yesterday, during an interview with CNN, Joe Biden
ran away from his vote on NAFTA.
Here is Joe Biden defending his vote in 2007.
Nobody Knows Joe
This list is by no means comprehensive. Biden suddenly
says he will bolster manufacturing in America while telling Jake Tapper we want China to grow. Yes, he actually said we want our
biggest ideological and economic foe to grow. The primary vehicle for China’s
growth is American investment. He has also said he will take on some elements
of the Sanders/Warren economic demands, like making the U.S.
Postal Service capable of making small loans. His team assured the banking industry that this is never going
to happen.
The simple truth is that Joe Biden lied about his own
life story when there was no reason to. It should make you question the
emergence of the “stutter” story this cycle. He has been lying about his record
as well as his own stated policies during the campaign. Kamala Harris was no better during the primary. The gall of his campaign
to accuse anyone of lying is pretty astonishing. Lying is the reason he failed
to become president before. It should prevent him from ascending to the highest
office in the land again.
