As drone sightings persist in the nighttime skies over New Jersey and a growing number of other states, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby has been handed the unenviable task of keeping the public informed. According to Kirby, the government doesn’t know who is responsible for these drones. But he assured the public that they are “legal and lawful” and that there is no evidence of any threat to public safety.
He might be telling the truth, but many Americans are skeptical — and with good reason. The Biden administration has lied to us so many times before.
In fact, we’re still reeling from President Joe Biden’s most recent whopper. Despite multiple denials from both Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that he was even considering pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, the president granted his son Hunter a sweeping pardon this month that covers more than 10 years’ worth of alleged criminal activity.
And then there were the constant lies about Biden’s cognitive ability.
From the day Biden launched his presidential campaign in April 2019, disingenuously citing President-elect Donald Trump’s now-debunked response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, it was clear that he had changed during his two years out of the national spotlight. His speech had become noticeably less fluent, his words were often slurred, and he struggled to communicate effectively without the aid of a teleprompter.
The conservative media reported on these early signs of dementia, but Democrats and the legacy media dismissed the reports as right-wing propaganda. And the pandemic, which was raging at the time, allowed Biden to limit his public appearances, shielding himself from the level of scrutiny typically faced by a presidential candidate.
Biden’s condition has deteriorated significantly since those early days. Yet Democrats refused to admit the truth until Biden’s disastrous debate performance in late June left them with no other choice.
When videos surfaced just two weeks earlier that showed Biden’s very public and very humiliating senior moments at the G7 summit, the Juneteenth celebration, and a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser, Jean-Pierre told reporters they were “cheap fakes.” The videos had been edited by Republicans, she said, to make Biden appear dazed and confused and therefore unfit for the presidency.
Another major lie emerged just three weeks ahead of the 2020 election. The New York Post published incriminating text messages and emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop that strongly suggested Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s overseas influence-peddling business. If we had an honest media, these revelations may have derailed Biden’s candidacy. Instead, Big Tech intervened, suppressing the story by removing it from their platforms. As a result, most voters didn’t hear about it until after casting their ballots.
House Republican investigations later revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, had been working feverishly behind the scenes to form a group of as many prominent former intelligence community officials as possible to sign a public letter claiming the laptop story bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The letter arguably saved Biden’s candidacy. Just days after it was published, Biden used it to shut down questions from Trump during a critical presidential debate.
For years, Biden repeatedly insisted he had no knowledge of his son’s overseas business dealings. However, that narrative unraveled in July 2023, when Hunter’s former business partner and longtime friend, Devon Archer, testified before the House Oversight Committee. Archer revealed that Joe Biden had participated, either via speakerphone or in person, in at least 20 meetings with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates.
Faced with this new information, the White House was forced to shift its stance. The new narrative? The president was never in business with his son, and there is no evidence of his direct involvement in Hunter’s deals.
As evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement began to be corroborated by bank records, eyewitnesses, and text messages, Democrats were forced to switch gears yet again: Republicans have no direct evidence of his involvement. Show us the money.
Although most of the bank activity showed funds moving through shell corporations (set up by Hunter) and ultimately winding up in the bank accounts of Biden family members (other than Joe, of course), the committee was able to show at least one payment going directly to Joe Biden.
According to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, it’s not necessary – or even typical – for funds to be paid directly to the subject of an influence peddling scheme, to prove wrongdoing. It’s enough to show that his family members received a financial benefit.
The Biden-Harris administration has failed Americans by every measure, lying about the effects of their policies every step of the way. As officials towed the party line that our southern border was secure, for example, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported more than 10.8 million border encounters since the start of fiscal year 2021. This figure does not account for the millions of “gotaways” who entered the country undetected.
The Biden administration also told the public over and over again that Trump was an existential threat to our democracy; that inflation was transitory; that inflation was inherited from the Trump administration; that crime rates were falling; and that the administration had created 16 million new jobs.
On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that Trump would ban abortion nationwide. If their lips were moving, they were lying.
This administration has shown contempt for the American people. Rather than keeping the public informed, it has chosen to mislead. It has used fear as a tool to push forward its dangerous agenda, weaponized the law against its most formidable political opponent, and relied on propaganda to manipulate public opinion.
In one month, Biden’s failed, corrupt presidency will happily be over. And it will end just as it began: entangled in a web of lies.
A previous version of this article appeared in the Washington Examiner.
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