Public rightly thinks the Biden administration is unethical
Jack Elbaum
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It turns out that most still trust their own eyes more than the corporate press.
On Thursday, Gallup released a poll that found only 42% believe the Biden administration’s ethics are either “excellent” or “good.” The only other administration since 1980 that had a worse public perception regarding ethics was Donald Trump’s.
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This should come as no surprise, as the Biden administration is giving the public new reasons to doubt its ethics almost every day.
The clearest recent example is Joe Biden’s involvement with his son, Hunter Biden, in his shady business dealings. The elder Biden maintained that “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” but it was recently revealed that he has been on at least 20 calls with Hunter Biden’s business associates.
We also know that Hunter Biden used his father’s name to pressure a Chinese businessman. His texts read: “I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. … Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. … I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
Another reason may be the Biden administration’s vicious and intentionally divisive rhetoric on race. When Georgia passed a benign voting law, Biden compared those who supported it to Bull Connor, George Wallace, and Jefferson Davis — literal segregationists and slavery advocates. He dubbed it “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” But it turned out that when the next election in Georgia came around, early voting among black Georgians hit record levels, and zero — yes, zero — percent of black voters said they had a poor experience at the polls.
More recently, the administration has gone all-in on the talking point that Florida’s new black history curriculum makes the outrageous and repulsive claim that slavery was beneficial. But it says no such thing. One sentence out of nearly 200 on the subject of slavery in the curriculum reads, “Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” But the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, Encyclopedia.com written by Oxford and Columbia University, the AP African American studies curriculum, and the book of an adviser to the 1619 Project all included nearly identical phrasing. To frame political opponents as literally thinking slavery is a good thing, when any honest person could see that is resolutely not the case, is simply gross.
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Or it could have to do with the fact Biden said, prior to pulling out of Afghanistan, that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” But his own intelligence people told him differently, the Taliban took over in mere hours, and he left hundreds of Americans, along with more than 75,000 of our allies, stranded in now Taliban-controlled territory.
The list goes on and on. And the lies are not about trivial things. It is a good thing that as the media works overtime to cover for this administration, the public can still see it for what it truly is.
Jack Elbaum is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.