President Joe Biden held a press conference on Thursday night to do damage control over special counsel Robert Hur’s report over Biden’s handling of classified documents. However, the presser was such a disaster that it unquestionably caused more damage than it controlled. It was a public relations nightmare for Biden, who came off as angry, bitter, confused, uninformed, and incompetent. Had it been former President Donald Trump instead of Biden who spoke last night, Democrats would claim he’s unfit for office.
But Democrats don’t hold Biden to the same standards they held Trump. Biden can spread misinformation, be ineffective, sow the seeds of discord, cause division, and fuel political strife, and Democrats will ignore it. Biden can be the impetus for political inertia, and few, if any, Democrats will challenge or criticize him. Biden is treated with “kid gloves” by those who wore vicious animal claws when dealing with Trump.
Consider Biden’s unhinged outburst when speaking before the press Thursday night. First, he touted the report as a vindication since Hur decided not to charge Biden with a crime for mishandling classified documents (funny how that always seems to happen to Democrats).
Then, Biden criticized the report for characterizing the president as an absentminded, elderly man, only for Biden to make a blunder that reinforced why he is characterized as an absentminded, elderly man.
Biden also went back on one of his campaign promises from 2020. After telling voters that, unlike Trump, he would be a president who accepted responsibility for his actions and wouldn’t blame others for mistakes because the “buck stopped with him,” Biden did just that. He said it was his staff’s fault for mishandling the documents and that his only sin was not seeing what his staff did.
“I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question regarding responsibility over the classified documents. “Things that appear in my garage, things that came out of my home, things that were moved — not by me but my staff.”
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Additionally, Biden was short-tempered, cranky, rude, and condescending to the press. The same kind of thing that Biden and Democrats would criticize Trump for doing, Biden did. But had it been Trump instead of Biden who spoke on Thursday night, Democrats would have once again gathered their pitchforks and claimed Trump was unfit for office.
Democrats were never outraged over how Trump acted. They just claimed they were as a political ploy so they could dupe, manipulate, and fool voters. People must remember these double standards when it comes to voting in the election in November, or any election for that matter. It’s indicative of the Democrats’ hypocrisy and the performative politics behind their faux outrage. But most importantly, it’s just the latest example of why no one should ever take anything Democrats claim seriously.