Elected leaders make dumb statements. Sometimes these comments are forgivable mistakes. Other times, people are left scratching their heads over how someone with such authority could say something so ignorant or so obviously untrue.
Even more disturbing is the notion that these men and women aren’t simply misspeaking. They’re flat out lying. Many of the statements call our elected leaders’ intelligence and moral fiber into serious question.
As presidents go, Joe Biden is quickly climbing this unflattering list, on his way to becoming the all-time leader in boneheaded presidential remarks. Picking out 10 or 15 stupid, outlandish lies told by Joe Biden is easy. Listing them according to their level of outlandishness is harder.
Certainly, ranking well up the list would be when Biden falsely claimed to have been an outstanding student at Syracuse University College of Law. Biden was anything but a good student. His rank wasn’t in the top half. Joe Biden was close to “the worst student” in his class.
That proclamation is more than just a slight embellishment of the facts. That’s a bald-faced lie. But that’s just the tip of Joe’s iceberg when it comes to lying. Clueless Joe said he was arrested while protesting in South Africa. He wasn’t.
Biden never visited a synagogue in Pittsburgh, as he claimed. But Biden’s lies have been at the forefront of his presidency. He and his clan of border clowns say that the U.S. southern border is secure. According to Biden, he has the southern border under control.
One 60-second video of thousands of illegal migrants waltzing across the border proves that statement to be a lie. Biden said that inflation was “transitory.” Now, nearly two years into the worst inflation crisis in four decades, that statement was a lie as well.
This clown once said he was raised by Puerto Ricans, his son died in Iraq, and he never talked to his son Hunter about his crooked business schemes. Biden wasn’t. His deceased son Beau didn’t. But Joe sure did “talk to Hunter about the crooked Biden family business scams.”
President @JoeBiden incorrectly said his late son Beau "lost his life in Iraq." https://t.co/oZ9GRyRjcI pic.twitter.com/8OvjbQgUaT
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 12, 2022
Watching gas prices skyrocket because of his policies, Biden said, “down from over $5 when I took office.” That’s the wrong answer, Joe. Gas prices when Biden stole his way into the White House were barely over $2 a gallon. Even “fake news” CNN knows that’s a lie.
Biden claimed that he traveled nearly 20,000 miles with Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping. Not even close, Joe. Biden has made so many ignorant and untrue statements that it’s virtually impossible to keep track.
Maybe that’s why the spineless mainstream media keeps giving him a free pass on his lies. Or perhaps they’re ordered to purposefully ignore the lies or distort the truth. It begs the question, “Why do the majority of politicians lie,” at least to some degree?
It’s virtually impossible to find an elected official who hasn’t, at a minimum, distorted a fact or embellished a story. Furthermore, it’s as if politicians have some genetic propensity for telling lies. Why do Americans continue to vote for such people of low moral fiber?
Is there ever going to come a time when voters reject candidates who refuse to tell the truth? One would assume that citizens would want the most honest among them in positions of authority. But a huge degree of responsibility rests with the corrupt mainstream media.
Often, they fail to cover half the lies and senseless statements. The rest of the time, they run cover for the liars, handing Americans a bag of B.S. There seems to be only one solution to all the political lying. Believe about half of what we hear, check the rest, and disregard most of that.