LOS ANGELES.–Delivering stump speeches on a fundraising swing through the Western States, President Joe Biden, 81, dutifully reads his teleprompter giving away for all to see his 2024 election strategy against 77-year-old former President Donald Trump. Trump finds himself stuck in a Manhattan courtroom where he’d prefer to spend his time going after Biden. But Biden’s team pounced on Trump for the six week trial, hitting Trump with everything but the kitchen sink. Biden smacked Trump for telling Time Magazine that he’d leave it up to states to prosecute anyone connected to illegal abortions. “I really urge you to read it,” Biden said, making abortion about Trump not the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned 1973 Roe v. Wade Jun 24, 2022. Democrats hope they can pin the end of Roe v. Wade on Trump for his Supreme Court picks, turning voters off to Trump.
Speaking at a fundraiser in Seattle, Biden said Trump promised to be a “Dictator on Day One,” suggesting that allies who didn’t pay appropriate amount of NATO dues would not be defended by the United States. Trump pushed NATO countries to contribute 2% of Gross Domestic Product to defense or the U.S. would no longer foot the bill for rich European countries. Biden said Trump wants to “totally obliterate the deep state,” referring to Democrats at the Justice Department, and other agencies that investigated Trump without proper probable cause for having ties to the Kremlin. Biden’s handlers often bring up Trump doing nothing on Jan. 6, 2021 to stop the Capitol rioting. House Democrats led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), now running for senate, went a lot further saying Trump planned and orchestrated Jan. 6.
Biden read talking points that said Trump brought nothing but chaos to the presidency, reprising the campaign strategy of former 2016 GOP candidate Jeb Bush. “Chaos is nothing new for Trump,” Biden said in Seattle. “His presidency was chaos. Trump is trying to make the—the country forget about the dark and unsettling things that he did when he was president. Well, we’re not going to let forget.” Trump had the economy in steady economic growth despite the horrific effect of Covid-19 pandemoc on the U.S. and global on the economy. Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett without blinking that he inherited 9% inflation rate from Trump. Burnett let Biden ramble on, when she knew that inflation was 1.5% in Jan. 2021. Yet Biden is seen as a doddering old man, incapable to blowing smoke. Yet Biden often tells some whoppers especially about his civil rights record.
Biden said he fought to end apartheid in South Africa with Mandela at a time when the civil rights icon was still in Robben Island prison when Biden visited in 1977. Mandella was released from Robben Island prison Feb. 11, 1990. It doesn’t matter what Biden says, he’s given cover by the Democrat-friendly press that rarely calls him out on his rubbish. Biden likes to talk about Trump trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and putting illegal immigrants at the Mexican border in cages, a practice verified during the Obama administration. Biden likes to talk about Trump’s affinity for dictators, another Democrat talking point while Trump was in office. Today, Biden doesn’t mention his proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin, turning Russia and the United State into mortal enemies. Yet Biden spins it as Trump’s love for dictators.
Biden doesn’t like to talk about how he created the worst inflation in 40 years by joining Ukraine’s war against the Kremlin, boycotting all Russian oil. Biden’s lavish government post-Covid stimulus spending to the tune of $4 trillion and his Russian oil embargo created the worst inflation in the U.S. in over 40 years. Today’s 23-year-high record interest rates are needed to keep inflation from returning to 9%. So when Biden tells campaign audiences that inflation is now under control, he couldn’t be more disingenuous. Biden doesn’t like to admit the U.S. has the worst relations with Russia and China since WW II. Never before in post-WW II history has any president until Biden gone to war against the Kremlin. Biden’s has left U.S. foreign policy in shambles and U.S. National Security in the most dangerous place since the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis.
Biden certainly wants voters to think that all the woes suffered in the U.S. economy are all Trump’s fault, when, in fact, Trump’s economy had 1.5% inflation rate and no foreign wars. What could be more chaos for the U.S. than being at war with the Kremlin? Biden threatened China in 2022 to send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan in case of Beijing invasion. Biden refused to offer U.S. or NATO troops to defend Ukraine but readily violates the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, signed into law by former President Jimmy Carter. Biden’s treatment of Communist China has been so belligerent there’s a growing chance in Biden’s second term of a war with Beijing over Taiwan. Biden takes all the credit for getting through the Covid-19 pandemic, even though Trump created the vaccines under his Operation Warp Speed. Biden talks about Trump’s chaos, something anyone would return to.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
