In his political ads he repeatedly asserts that Donald Trump is campaigning to impose a national abortion ban, but Mr. Trump has said no such thing. His stated position on abortion is that he believes it's a matter for the states to settle. He has said this numerous times and quite unequivocally, yet Mr. Biden insists on mischaracterizing Mr. Trump's position.
This isn't the only instance of the President's loose affiliation with the truth. He has become notorious for his taradiddles, but when he blatantly lies about his political opponents and their records, his mendacities become morally serious.
Here's another recent example. In his daily column at National Review, Jim Geraghty observes that the president's representation of recent economic history is simply false.
Geraghty writes:
President Biden, tried to defend his record on inflation last week, saying “We’re in a situation where we’re better situated than we were when we took office where we — inflation was skyrocketing.”Critics of Mr. Trump often chastise him for his occasional prevarications, but the gold medal for dishonesty has to be awarded to Mr. Biden unless, of course, the President really believes the nonsense he utters. If that's the case, he's not being dishonest, but he is delusional and should certainly not be running for another term as president.
Absolute horse-pucky; President Biden is counting on everyone else in America having as poor a memory as he does.
The inflation rate — the Consumer Price Index, measuring prices from one year to the next — was 1.4 percent in January 2021. It was 1.2 percent the month before in December 2020, 1.4 percent in November 2020, 1.2 percent in October 2020, and 1.2 percent in September 2020.
You could find a lot to complain about in American life in the second half of 2020, from the pandemic to schools remaining closed, to arguments about wearing masks, to rising crime. But inflation was not one of the problems in American life as that horrible year came to an end.
