Trump / GOP's Continuing Lies;. And Biden's Missed Moment

Trump wailed in the Tuesday email and on his social media sites. “You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable. Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”

He repeated the claim in Thursday’s post, and his minions amplified it.

• “Were they going to shoot [Secret Service] then Pres Trump, Melania, and Barron too???,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Congress’ crackpot, wondered on X (formerly Twitter) to her more than 3 million followers.
• Fox News host Sean Hannity blew up in prime time
• Fla GOP lawmaker Byron Donald tried to give the same spin on CNN, but was pushed back / school by host Kaitlan Collins.
• And the Republican National Committee raged that the FBI’s deadly force authority “takes the Biden administration’s weaponization of the law to an entirely new level.”

You heard almost nothing from either party in Congress, except for MAGA Republicans who spread the lie. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted a 2022 clip in which Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said he’d “personally approved” the decision to get a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, and Hawley added that perhaps Garland “would like to come to Congress and explain all this under oath to the American people.”

it took a reporter’s question at the Justice Department on Thursday before the attorney general, the alleged head of the potential Trump death squad, responded to the slander.

“That allegation is false,” he said, “and it is extremely dangerous.” The phrasing regarding FBI force was standard operating stuff, Garland added, the same protocol that was in place when agents searched Biden’s home for classified papers in early 2023. What he could have added is that the FBI knew Trump wouldn’t be at Mar-a-Lago when the agents showed up.

The attorney general was clearly ready for the question. But his measured, belated denial wasn’t enough. Only the president can command the attention that refuting Trump’s reckless lie demanded.

Biden will never convince MAGA loyalists that Trump is lying about anything. But for the sake of us non-MAGA Americans, he should not have ignored such a scurrilous and dangerous accusation. He should have made a forceful case for why Trump’s lies could invite violence and argue, for the sake of his campaign, that anyone who’d tell those lies is unfit for the office.

The president missed his chance. But, alas, Trump is bound to provide him with another.

 

likewise, the accomplishments of Bidenomics have bee swiftboating by the GOP

https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/its-a-matter-of-bidenomics.320222/page-116#post-15212838

The economic achievements of the Biden admin, thus far include but not limited to

• avg job creation > 100K every month, 40 consecutive months
• the lowest unemployment % ever in US history
• GDP growing every quarter, 13 consecutive quarters
• signed into law the largest infrastructure bill ever in US history
• etc.

But Bidenomics has been the victim of rampant swiftboating, untrue / unfair political attacks, and they are working.

Recently, UK's Guardian news outlet hired the Harris company to conduct a poll, asking the question , "do you know how the US economy is doing?"

Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian.
The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer.

• 55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing.
• 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year.
• 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.

I give the Biden team a F grade for its inability to control the narrative, to lead the public along.to understand / appreciate the accomplishments of Bidenomics​