Joe Biden may have stumbled in the face of Donald Trump’s torrent of falsehoods last week, explains CBS News’ John Dickerson, but which is worse, a liar or a fragile truthteller? This is the false choice many in political media have come up with to help mitigate the fallout from the president’s historically disastrous debate performance.
Trump lied. And, yes, Biden stumbled — and blatantly and repeatedly lied.
For starters, Biden’s personal accusations about Trump’s alleged nihilism and extremism were all based on debunked claims. Like Trump or hate him, he never told Americans to inject themselves with “bleach” and he never called tiki-torch cosplay Nazis “very fine people” and there is no evidence he ever said, “Hitler has done some good things.”
It just got worse. We know Biden lied when claiming Trump “did nothing” about Iran, because after the Republican withdrew the United States from Barack Obama’s giveaway to the mullahs in 2017, Biden condemned the move publicly on numerous occasions. Biden did the same thing when Trump atomized Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani, who was behind the murder of hundreds of American servicemen.
Was Biden telling the truth when he said inflation was at 9 percent when he entered into office? Because it was 1.4 percent. Surely Dickerson remembers the president assuring the country that price spikes under his watch were just a transitory glitch, to give cover to Democrats who worked to ram through the largest spending bill in history despite warnings from economists.
Biden claimed he
