The President Who Wasn’t There
A haunting narrative of fantasies and lies.
To hear Joe Biden tell it, he’s been a major factor in just about everything important that happened during his lifetime, and some things before he was born. The only problem is, we know he didn’t do important things and, more often than not, wasn’t even around when they were done. The truth has a weird way of complicating the president’s life story. But according to him, he’s the “Forrest Gump President,” always there, always playing a role in directing history. While the nickname is accurate, it’s for his IQ, not his participation in history.
Joe Biden’s life must be wildly boring. The reality of it, I mean. Why else would he spend so much time fantasizing about things that didn’t happen?
When not looking in the crowd for dead people or pretending to be a faith healer by asking paralyzed people to stand up, the president fills his speeches with mumbling incoherencies, screaming declarations, whispered fantasies and straight up lies. It really is a marvel to behold.
For a guy who admitted in the past that he played no role, and had no real interest in, the Civil Rights Movement, he regularly tells audiences he marched for them. In fact, he was either arrested or almost arrested for his role in the fight. He was even arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa, so committed to the cause was he.
None of that is remotely true – Joe never did anything related to Civil Rights, even though he was old enough during the fight to have participated. He, in fact, associated with racist, segregationist Democrats when he first arrived in the Senate in 1973.
A real sign of a sociopath is a willingness to look at what is objectively obvious and deny it. In an interview with John Harwood last week, Biden claimed he somehow managed to convince the late Senator Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act “when I left the Senate.”
There are so many things wrong with this it’s hard to know where to start. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965, Biden didn’t get elected to the Senate until 1972. Biden “left the Senate” in 2009 to become vice president, Thurmond died in 2003. These are pretty obvious, and rather large, problems with Joe’s proclamation. Harwood said nothing, either being too ignorant to know he was being lied to or too hackish to care. He was, after all, fired by CNN, and you really have to try to not meet their standards.
If you’re wondering how it is someone can lie so obviously so often, without any fear, it’s because he’s been getting away with it his whole life.
The current lies he tells about himself are in the tradition of his lies in the past, only now it’s tough to know if it’s because of senility or not.
He’s lied about the death of his first wife and daughter (hit by a drunk driver), about the death of his son (he died in Iraq), and used both for political advantage, regularly. Talk about gross.
If you’re willing to stand on the graves of family members when it suits your political needs, what wouldn’t you lie about?
And when you’ve got the media on your side, and the truth only hurts your cause, why not lie?
Biden’s lifetime of bull excrement results in headlines like this from The New York Times, “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel,” with the sub-headline, “President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.” You have to be flexible enough to kiss your own rear end to twist reality like that. The first mention of the word “lie” was in paragraph eight and was in reference to Donald Trump, not the subject of the story.
In fact, the only time Biden’s lies are called lies directly are by an “expert” who excuses them. “With Biden, people have decided these are not the kind of lies that matter. These are the kinds of lies that people’s grandfathers tell,” the paper quotes a left-wing professor saying.
The “fact-checker” at the Washington Post chimed in with a beauty of his own, “Biden loves to retell certain stories. Some aren’t credible.” The Post kept a running list of Trump “lies,” most about insignificant things related to ego, but they brush off the literal routine rewriting of history to make himself important.
The weirdest thing about Joe Biden’s lies is they’re wildly unnecessary. He is, after all, president of the United States. That’s historic enough. But he’s so insecure he’s compelled to make things up about himself to cover for shortcomings he sees when he looks in the mirror. If he’s willing to lie about things the truth is easily available to everyone to refute, what do you think he’s willing to say about things conducted in private, when no one was around to see?
WATCH: Marlow Reveals to Bill O’Reilly the Countries Doing Business with Corrupt Biden Family
In a Wednesday interview about his new book Breaking Biden, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow revealed to veteran broadcaster Bill O’Reilly the names of the countries that we know have had business dealings with the Biden family.
“Do you believe that Joe Biden himself is a corrupt man?” O’Reilly asked Marlow in an interview on BillOReilly.com. “That means that he used his elected positions—senator, VP, and now president—to amass money for his family. Do you believe he consciously did that?”
“Absolutely, I do,” Marlow answer. “And I think that if you read the book, you’ll be more convinced of it than ever.”
“You use the operative word, which is family,” Marlow continued. “And somehow, we on the right have fallen for some trick, which is that the family doesn’t count or something. It does count. This is the anatomy of a bribe, Bill, if the family is getting paid.”
Marlow then listed all the countries that have had business dealings with members of the Biden family, including China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.
“They’re not just getting paid by China,” Marlow said. “They’re getting paid by Kazakhstan, as you noted. They’re getting paid by Ukraine. They’re getting paid by entities around the world — from Jamaica, to Costa Rica, to Saudi Arabia, all of these places are tied into Biden business. Iraq — and all of these places the Bidens have no business doing any business there at all. And yet they are one after the next after the next.”
“They keep coming up with new creative ways to use the family name to make money,” he noted. “And Joe puts family first always. It is one thing that comes through beyond any semblance of a doubt when you read the book. The thing he cares about most is protecting his family and elevating his family. And that’s what his family is up to.”
You can watch the full interview at BillOReilly.com, where you can sign up to become a premium member.
Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration is available now in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook read by the author.
McCain Library Built With $83M in COVID ‘Public Health Emergency’ Money
Was there a quid pro quo in the McCain family backing Biden?
[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Biden paid a visit to Arizona to claim that everyone who opposes him is a threat to democracy, to brag about encouraging former Senator McCain to cheat on his disabled first wife, and to announce $83 million in taxpayer money for the John McCain National Library.
The 80,000-square-foot library built on 22.5 acres at Arizona State Universe will archive McCain’s papers and claims, implausibly, that it will have over 100,000 visitors a year.
Politicians stealing taxpayer money to build useless monuments to each other’s vanity is nothing new, but what is unusual is the source of the money for the McCain library.
The Biden administration put out a press release announcing that the $83 million in federal funds for the McCain Library were being drawn from the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund. The full name of the fund is actually the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund.
The Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund consisted of $10 billion that was supposed to “directly support recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency” in response “to the public health emergency”. Now nearly 1% of that original $10 billion is being used to build a non-presidential library that will somehow help us “recover” from the pandemic.
The McCain Library is getting nearly as much CCF cash as the total given to tribal governments. It appears to be one of the largest single beneficiaries of the coronavirus emergency fund.
There is something appropriate in one career politician honoring another through a massive misappropriation of funds that were only allocated due to a national emergency. A politician’s library is not a response to a public health emergency. The Biden administration’s justification for the massive misappropriation of funds is the claim that the McCain Library will provide a space for health screenings and job fairs. There were far cheaper ways to provide a space for job fairs than an $83 million senatorial library. Arizona could host ten thousand job fairs for that kind of money and provide actual health resources to the people who really need them.
The $83 million in misappropriated coronavirus emergency money had nothing to do with a public health emergency and everything to do with an urgent political emergency.
Biden is underwater in the polls and the McCain family have become crucial allies against Republicans. The 2024 presidential candidate didn’t travel to Arizona to promote an $83 million space where someone might occasionally hold a job fair, but to use McCain to attack Republicans. In a speech with McCain family members and former Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who supervised the gubernatorial election that she claimed to have won, in attendance, Biden warned that Republicans represented an urgent threat to democracy.
In his ‘democracy’ speech, Biden claimed that, “democracy means rule of the people, not rule of monarchs, not rule of the monied, not rule of the mighty.” If that’s what democracy means, what does it mean when a career politician takes $83 million in public health emergency funding to build an institution honoring another career politician that is backing his unpopular campaign?
Does the McCain Library represent the rule of the people or occasionally elected monarchs?
In what sort of ‘democracy’ do politicians lie and then misappropriate taxpayer money in this way? And what sort of democracy fails to hold them accountable for their corruption?
These questions answer themselves.
Biden’s speech made it clear that he values the McCain Library primarily as a political institution. The McCain Institute’s donor list is already packed with leftist foundations, organizations and individuals like the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros.
Not to mention dubious foreign donors like Saudi Arabia and Imaad Zuberi: a Pakistani Clinton Foundation donor sentenced to 12 years in prison for foreign lobbying.
Between the leftist donors and corporate donors like Amazon, BlackRock, Microsoft, SpaceX, and Verizon, the McCain Institute ought to have enough money to build its facilities, but the whole point of political influence is being able to leverage access to public money.
Politics is the business of trading public money for political support. The $83 million in coronavirus public health emergency response funding is politics in this most traditional form. Practicing this kind of politics requires subverting “democracy”, “free and fair elections”, and the other virtues that Biden hailed in his valediction to McCain and attack on Republicans.
The public generally doesn’t like it when politicians steal their money, especially when it’s been allocated for an emergency, to trade to other political interests to shore up their candidacies. That is why the first business of politics is to suppress democracy and the public will.
Biden is widely unpopular and his poll numbers keep dropping. He’s unlikely to win a free and fair election, which is why he keeps claiming that his opponents are a threat to democracy. Such rhetoric has already been used by his government to censor political opponents. It’s now being used by his campaign to argue that voting for him is the only ‘democratic’ alternative. But if voting for one party is the only democratic alternative, then where’s the democracy?
Would the public approve of $83 million in public health emergency funding being used to build a library for a former senator? No more than they approve of most of his administration.
Biden wasn’t handing out that $83 million and delivering a speech about the importance of democracy to uphold it, but to undermine it. Faced with an unwinnable election, Biden is turning to Arizona as a model for his 2024 election strategy. The plan, there and everywhere, is to stigmatize his political opponents as dangerous extremists, to divide the GOP, break off influential party interests, and encourage public officials to violate the law in managing the election and counting the votes by insisting that democracy will be destroyed if he loses.
This isn’t democracy: it’s an end-run around democracy. The majority of Democrats and Americans don’t want Biden back in office. The polls have been crystal clear about that. But Biden isn’t interested in what the majority of his party and his country think. He’s not betting on democracy, but on a political establishment that bridges party differences.
What do McCain and Biden really have in common? McCain spent 31 years in the Senate while Biden spent 36 years there. What they have in common isn’t democracy. Behind the lofty rhetoric ripped from hundreds of presidential speeches and reassembled by ChatGPT, Biden and McCain were career politicians who remained in office despite the public tiring of them.
In the year he died, only 20% of Republicans had a positive view of McCain while 68% had a negative one. Among voters in general, he was underwater 44% to 39%. Biden is even more comprehensively underwater than that. His rhetoric about democracy isn’t intended for ordinary people, it’s a call for the solidarity of elites under the guise of protecting democracy.
The $83 million in coronavirus recovery funding allocated to the McCain Library shows why Biden, like McCain, feared democracy and chose oligarchy over listening to the people.
The real threat to democracy comes from established political interests subverting elections and the multi-trillion budgets they pass and then distribute shows how they subvert America.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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