Why Did Biden and Trump Lie?

By Rick Boettger

Easy: for the same reason most successful politicians do–if they lie, they win, and if they tell the truth, they lose. Biden and the Dems had been trained for years to  lie.

Trump got his political start with his first big lie: Obama was born in Kenya.  This lie started in 2008 and Obama let it go on for three years before he produced his official Hawaiian birth certificate.  Oprah asked what we all wondered: “Why did you take so long?”  Trump nonetheless kept it up for another five years because he and his followers liked it so much.

He only stopped lying two months before he beat Hillary, after he had ridden his Big Beautiful Lie not only to the nomination, but had closed Hillaey’s lead in the polls from 30 to just two points.

So Hillary had every reason to believe all she had to do was lie about her emails, private server, and financial windfalls.  The lesson of her loss for the Dems was NOT to be truthful, or nominate honest candidates, but to protect your lies from the Comeys of the world, as Obama did.  If she could have gotten rid of James Comey the way Obama criminalized whistleblowers and the media*, she would have won.

So Joe Biden went all in on denying his son Hunter’s illegal foreign business dealings–”He did nothing wrong” and, when pressed by Anderson Cooper at a Democratic primary debate, said not only “I did nothing wrong” but “I never discussed anything with him.”

That lie got him the primary, just as Trump’s birther lie got him his.  So Biden doubled down on the Hunter laptop scandal.  The laptop had specific records of not only Hunter’s tens of millions of unreported foreign “consulting payments” but also the Biden family’s sharing of the money.  Joe got not only his campaign to deny all, but all of the legacy media and even 50 former CIAofficials to collude in the coverup.  This successful lie, just as long before his election as Comey’s revelation about Hillary was before hers, let him win, just as surely as Comey had made her lose.

Then, the whole country got to see Trump thrive despite chronicling, what  was it, 10,000 fact checked lies in four years?  Whatever the number, it became the new norm for leaders on both sides to create their own fortress of created reality.

And the lies were beloved by not only Trump’s MAGA faithful, but by the Blue equivalent, the NYT reader comment section.  When the NYT reported after years of denial on a single day about the senate investigation of Hunter, the commenters were almost unanimous in condemning, NOT Hunter or the Biden family, but the NYT for printing the embarrassing facts at all.

So there you have it. When their current Beloved Leader–and Joe was indeed beloved–was clearly getting too old to govern, much less run again, the created reality was “He’s as sharp as he’s ever been.”

What is massively different about this lie is that so many of the sheep, even including the NYT commentariat faithful, did not buy it.  Remember that a large majority of the MAGA  and Blue masses completely supported their Dear Leader’s construction of their own truths.  But this time it was different. Biden was overwhelmingly supported only by his team and 90% of the media.  Shamefully, they turned on not only opponents but their own distressed faithful by denying everyone’s eyes and ears, calling them “pearl-clutching bedwetters,” and getting away with it for two years.

So there you have it.  While you might say Biden’s lies lost, it was only the Democratic faithful that got their hearts broken.  Biden and his team enjoyed two bonus years of glorious, 4-hours-a-day luxury power, while never suffering a bit for their disastrous perfidy.  When lying, even when you lose, you win!

*Obama promised “openness in government,” but “prosecuted more national security leakers than all other presidents combined, eight to three.” (60 Minutes)

Most prominently, James Risen, for reporting a botched CIA operation in Iran that actually helped Iran’s nuclear bomb program; Mannings, for showing the U.S. killing the Reuters’ reporters; and Snowden, for what even Obama admitted was the “helpful disclosure” of the NSA’s illegal surveillance program.

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