His lips moved
The usual suspects, the main stream / legacy media were full of headlines about Trump lying during the debate. Actually, much of their reporting ranged from inaccurate to misleading.
So, what about Joe Biden. Not much was reported about his “misstatements.” Let’s put that story straight.
How can you tell Joe Biden is lying? His lips are moving!
Doubt that? Here are a few highlights from last week’s debate.
- Biden said "we find ourselves in a situation where when [Trump] was president, he was separating babies from their mothers, put them in cages, making sure that the families were separated."
- Biden claimed that Border Patrol endorsed him and his “position” on immigration.
- Biden claimed that then resident Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, "very fine people."
- Biden claimed Trump called veterans “losers and suckers.”
- Biden claimed Trump added the most new debt in a single presidential term.
- Biden claimed that when he took office, the economy was "flat on its back" at 15% unemployment.
- Biden falsely said he is the first president in the past decade to not witness American troops’ deaths overseas.
After the 2020 debates, the LA Times (the most leftist paper on the left coast) corrected the statements blaming Trump for the cages: “The Obama administration did build the cages. The facility…was built with chain-link fencing by the Obama administration in 2014 in a warehouse in Nogales, Ariz.”
Question: Who was the Vice President under Obama when the cages were built?
The National Border Patrol Union reiterated their stance in a short statement posted to X, formerly Twitter: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”
Snopes, (which is no fan of Donald Trump or the Conservatives), fact checked this recently, after letting the lie go unchallenged for seven years:
Reporter: “The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville.”
Trump: “Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides…I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?
The “losers and suckers” comments were first mentioned in an article on September 3, 2020 from The Atlantic (which is another far left rag.) Since it was reported two months before the election, consider the source and timing.
Under Trump, the national debt went from $19.6 to $26.9 trillion, an increase of $7.3 trillion. (Take out $3 trillion for the Covid extraordinary expenditures and it would have risen by $4.3 trillion under Trump.)
Under Biden, in 3 years and 7 months, the national debt went from $26.9 to $34.6 trillion. An increase of $7.7 trillion.
By the way, none of the covid spending under Biden was necessary. Before Biden took office, in the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a 34.8 percent annual rate. In the fourth quarter, it grew 4.2 percent. But because Biden had campaigned on the lie of an economy in ruins, his administration could not allow the economy to continue to recover on its own. That would have amounted to an acknowledgement that Trump's policies had worked. So, another huge round of stimulus became a political necessity and brought about inflation.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment was at 6% in January 2021.
January 6th was the subject of more “misinformation.”
Jake Tapper asked, "those voters who believed that you violated your constitutional oath through your actions and inaction on January 6, 2021, and worried that you'll do it again," President Biden argued that the former president "encouraged" the January 6th attack. Biden also criticized Trump for inaction on January 6th.
Trump actually said in his speech, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Trump advisor Kash Patel was in a January 3rd meeting where he claims Trump gave his approval for defense officials to communicate to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that they were authorized to deploy the National Guard to the District and the U.S. Capitol building amid threats of violence that day. Patel previously told DailyMail.com that the Capitol Police and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser both denied the offer for an armed National Guard presence. (Trump says Bowser denied the offer in writing.)
In a video shot by Pelosi's daughter, Alexandria, while the pair were escaping from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the former speaker can be seen saying 'Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?' 'They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more,' Pelosi said to her chief of staff Terri McCullough.
Trump attackers point out that the President is in charge of the National guard but Patel and Trump say he had approved their use and only Pelosi needed to agree – which she did not.
Thirteen service members died during the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.