LOS ANGELES.–Fake news fears 77-year-old President Donald Trump’s rise in the polls with the New York Times reporting that he leads 81-year-old progressive Demorat President Joe Biden by 5% in national polls. When the fake news gets insecure, they engage in phony fact-checking, this time criticizing Trump for attacking Biden on his open border policy, suddenly a concern in an Election Year. Biden did nothing other than open the door for illegal immigrants, dismantling Trump’s border wall and tough enforcement policies for the last three years. Now that Biden faces a voter backlash, he starts talking about more enforcement and immigration reform. “Biden’s conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America,” Trump told a crowd in Greensboro, N.C., making an emphatic point about Biden’s feckless border policy.
Democrats don’t like when Trump starts gaining in the polls, using the fake news to slam his campaign speeches. But shouldn’t the fake news rip Biden for failing to deal with the out-of-control border policy, letting millions into the country without trying to stem the flow of illegals into the United States? “Biden and his accomplices want to collapse the American system, nullify the will of the actual American voters and establish as new base of power that give them control generations,” Trump said. Backlash in the fake news occurs when they see Biden slipping in the polls, something that reflects his 39% approval ratings, including Democrats, Republicans and independents. Trump must be demonized as racist, homophobic, xenophobic and, the new fake narrative, authoritarian, trying to destroy U.S. democracy. What could be more obviously disingenuous?
It’s not xenophobic to point out that Trump’s so-called newcomers to America tend to vote Democrat, largely because it’s sold as the party of immigrants. So naturally, newcomers would gravitate to the Democrat Party, especially a Party promising health care, welfare and other kinds of government largess. When Trump talks about overthrowing the America system, he’s talking about the lion’s share of government largess going to illegal immigrants, not U.S. citizens who’ve worked and paid taxes, eventually expecting some benefits. But when Biden’s government runs deficits, Congress looks to cut benefits to citizens, including Social Security and Medicare benefits. If the government covers millions of illegal immigrants with Medicaid benefits, aid to the poor, how’s the government going to meet its obligations to legitimate U.S. citizens in the future?
Democrats take anything from Trump’s speeches to prove he’s xenophobic, when, in fact, he simply wants voters to know the risks of open borders. “Once again, Trump is projecting in an attempt to distract the American people from the fact he killed the fairest and toughest border security in decades because he believed it would help his campaign,” said Biden Spokesman Ammar Moussa. Mousa knows that $60 billion for Ukraine came with Biden’s concessions on the border. Opposing the border portion of the bill stemmed from Biden insisting that border security must be tied to a $60 billion increase in Ukraine War funding. Biden’s campaign doesn’t like to talk about the billions going to fund the Ukraine War against the Kremlin knowing it ruins U.S.-Russian relations, drains the Treasury and generates the worst federal budgets in U.S. history.
Democrats and the fake news don’t like when Trump defends himself against the partisan indictments that leave him in legal jeopardy with 91 felonies charged by a horde of leftist prosecutors. “I stand before you today not only as you past and hopefully future president, but as a proud political dissident and a public enemy of a rogue regime,” Trump referring to the political prosecutions that leave him under the gun. If you listen to the daily echo-chamber broadcast fake news, Trump has been tried-and-convicted of all pending charges many times over. Fake news has no problem denying Trump his presumption of innocence but instead rushes to judgment with an endless parade of biased pundits all denouncing him as guilty as charged, never questioning the government’s politically motivated cases. Trump sees himself as a victim of unlawful Biden White House prosecution.
Trump is despised by the fake news because he continuously exposes them as politically biased, actually working for the Democrat Party. Accusing Trump of having the same cognitive problems as Biden shows the extent of fake news media corruption. Anyone listening to Trump’s numerous campaign rallies knows that he sharp-as-a-tack, completely in control of his audiences. Unlike Biden, Trump doesn’t follow a tight script, reading teleprompters and cue cards, fearing that he’ll go, of script. Biden presents a nightmare for his handlers, knowing that when he goes off-script he exposes his age-related cognitive decline. Fake news must point out Trump’s occasional gaffes but, when you look at them, they bear no resemblance to Biden’s cognitive impairments. Trump’s backers marvel at his resiliency using the campaign as a great catharsis for his many legal challenges.
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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.
