As drone sightings persist in the skies over New Jersey and a growing number of other states, White House National Security Communications Spokesman John Kirby has been handed the unenviable task of keeping the public informed. According to Kirby, the government doesn’t know who is responsible for these drones. However, he assured the public that the drones are “legal and lawful” and there is no evidence of any threat to public safety.
He might be telling the truth, but many Americans are skeptical — and with good reason. The Biden administration has lied to us so many times before.
In fact, we’re still reeling from President Joe Biden’s most recent whopper. Despite multiple denials from both Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that he was even considering pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, the president granted him a sweeping pardon this month that covers more than 10 years’ worth of alleged criminal activity.
Then there were the constant lies about Biden’s cognitive ability.
From the day Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign in April 2019, disingenuously citing President-elect Donald Trump’s now-debunked response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, it was clear that he had changed during his two years out of the national spotlight. His speech had become noticeably less fluent, his words were often slurred, and he struggled to communicate effectively without the aid of a teleprompter.
The conservative media reported on these early signs of dementia, but Democrats and the legacy media dismissed the reports as right-wing propaganda. The pandemic, which was raging at the time, allowed Biden to limit his public appearances, shielding himself from the level of scrutiny typically faced by a presidential candidate.
Joe Biden’s condition has deteriorated significantly since those early days. Yet, Democrats refused to admit the truth until his disastrous debate performance in late June left them with no other choice.
When videos surfaced just two weeks earlier that showed Joe Biden’s very public and very humiliating senior moments at the G7 summit, the Juneteenth celebration, and a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser, Jean-Pierre told reporters they were “cheap fakes.” The videos had been edited by Republicans, she said, to make him appear dazed and confused and therefore unfit for the presidency.
Another major lie emerged just three weeks ahead of the 2020 election. The New York Post published incriminating text messages and emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop that strongly suggested Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s overseas influence-peddling business. If we had an honest media, these revelations may have derailed his candidacy. Instead, Big Tech intervened, suppressing the story by removing it from its platforms. As a result, most voters didn’t hear about it until after casting their ballots.
House Republican investigations later revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, had been working feverishly behind the scenes to form a group of as many prominent former intelligence community officials as possible to sign a public letter saying the laptop story bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The letter arguably saved Joe Biden’s candidacy. Just days after it was published, he used it to shut down questions from Trump during a critical presidential debate.
For years, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted he had no knowledge of his son’s overseas business dealings. However, that narrative unraveled in July 2023 when Hunter Biden’s former business partner and longtime friend, Devon Archer, testified before the House Oversight Committee. Archer revealed that Joe Biden participated, either via speakerphone or in person, in at least 20 meetings with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates.
Faced with this new information, the White House was forced to shift its stance. The new narrative? The president was never in business with his son, and there is no evidence of his direct involvement in Hunter Biden’s deals.
As evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement began to be corroborated by bank records, eyewitnesses, and text messages, Democrats were forced to switch gears yet again: Republicans have no direct evidence of his involvement. Show us the money.
Although most of the bank activity showed funds moving through shell corporations (set up by Hunter Biden) and ultimately winding up in the bank accounts of family members (other than Joe Biden, of course), the committee was able to show at least one payment going directly to Joe Biden.
According to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, it’s not necessary, or even typical, for funds to be paid directly to the subject of an influence-peddling scheme to prove wrongdoing. It’s enough to show that his family members received a financial benefit.
The Biden-Harris administration has failed Americans by every measure, lying about the effects of its policies every step of the way. As officials towed the party line that our southern border was secure, for example, Customs and Border Protection has reported more than 10.8 million border encounters since the start of fiscal 2021. This figure does not account for the millions of “gotaways” who entered the country undetected.
The Biden administration also told the public over and over again that Trump was an existential threat to our democracy, inflation was transitory and was inherited from the Trump administration, crime rates were falling, and the administration created 16 million new jobs.
On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris said Trump would ban abortion nationwide. If their lips were moving, they were lying.
This administration has shown contempt for Americans. Rather than keeping the public informed, it has chosen to mislead. It has used fear as a tool to push forward its dangerous agenda, weaponized the law against its most formidable political opponent, and relied on propaganda to manipulate public opinion.
In one month, Joe Biden’s failed, corrupt presidency will happily be over, and it will end just as it began: entangled in a web of lies.
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Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Follow her on X or LinkedIn.