President Biden’s been caught in another blatant lie, this time claiming that he came to Ground Zero the day after 9/11 — when his own autobiography clearly puts him in DC that day.
More outrageous, he offered up the whopper in a speech on the 9/11 anniversary, what should be a moment of real solemnity.
The thing is, lies have been Biden’s standard operating procedure for decades.
He lies for sympathy, claiming time and again, with no evidence, that the driver of the other car in the accident that killed his first wife and daughter was drunk. And twisting son Beau’s death from cancer into a service-related loss.
He lies for extra gravitas: For years he told a 100% false story about having been arrested in South Africa while trying to see Nelson Mandela.
The thing is, the fakery has no limits at all: He lies about his policies, too.
He lied about the inflation his policies caused as it was happening and nowadays pretends everything’s hunky-dory with the average American pocketbook.
He lies about the US border, insisting it’s not wide open.
He lied, despite the evidence in front of everyone’s eyes, that his Afghanistan bugout was a great success.
He made numerous bald-faced claims he knew nothing about his son Hunter’s crooked business dealings, when in fact he had been involved in them up to the eyeballs.
It worked for him well enough in his decades as a senator, and even as vice president (aggressive falsehoods helped him wipe the floor with GOP candidate Paul Ryan in the 2012 veep debate).
But a president’s words face the greatest scrutiny on the planet, and he’s too old to change his ways. Indeed, his evident cognitive decline renders him a more awkward liar.
It’d just be a sad spectacle if he weren’t the leader of the free world.
Since he is, it’s one more reason the Democratic Party should listen to its own voters and find a better candidate for 2024.