Joe Biden’s catastrophic performance during the June 27 presidential debate exemplifies the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ famous aphorism that “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Indeed, at the end of the debate, the frail, befuddled, 81-year-old Biden could not even descend several steps to greet the moderators, needing his wife’s assistance for a task much easier than stepping into a flowing river.
Photos of the president’s irreversible physical incapacity have gone viral and been as damaging as the abysmal debate convinced many Americans of his permanently impaired mental state.
President Biden, in his opening statement last month, regurgitated the false claim that former President Trump “so badly handled” the COVID pandemic.
Similarly, in his opening statement during their presidential debate in October 2020, Biden declared that “anyone who is responsible” for 220,000 COVID deaths “should not remain as president of the United States of America.”
But currently, 737,000 Americans died from COVID during Biden’s abhorrent three and one-half years in the White House, which are 61% more than the 459,000 deaths during the last year of Trump’s presidency between January 1, 2020, and January 19, 2021.
Moreover, deaths from all causes during the first three years of Joe Biden’s calamitous presidency total 9,863,000. There were 3,472,000 deaths in 2021; 3,290,000 in 2022; and 3,101,000 in 2023.
An extrapolation for 2024 is another 3.1 million deaths, based on the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s statistics in the first four months of 2023 there were 1,061,000 deaths, and 1,060,000 during the same period this year.
Thus, Biden’s four-year total will be roughly 12,963,000, or a heinous 1,065,000 more than Trump’s four-year count of 11,898,000. The former president’s worst year was 2020 with 3,390,000 deaths.
While the debate’s CNN moderators never confronted President Biden about these overlapping public-health disasters, Jake Tapper phrased a question to former President Trump that, “despite the efforts that both of you have made, more than 100,000 Americans are dying from overdoes each year.”
In fact, during Trump’s tenure between December 2017 and December 2020, there were 231,000 deaths from drug overdoses, or 77,000 annually.
There were 322,000 deaths during the next three years of Biden’s cataclysmic presidency, or 107,000 annually.
A second false claim by Biden during the pivotal debate is that President Trump left him an economy “that was in freefall,” with an unemployment rate of “15%.”
While the unemployment rate in April 2020 was indeed 14.8%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it had plunged to 6.4% by January 2021.
Thirdly, Biden’s vowed just before the November 2020 election that “I will shut down the virus, not the country.”
Instead, in March 2021, Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress, led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, supercharged the economy with a $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill.
Unsurprisingly, the Consumer Price Index increase, in January 2021 over the previous 12 months, was 1.4%. But it exploded to 9.1% for the year ending in June 2022.
Biden’s fourth false claim during the recent epic debate is that former President Trump “had the largest national debt of any president four-year period.”
In fact, Trump’s total debt between Fiscal Years 2017 and 2020 is $5.46 trillion, according to U.S. Treasury data, including $3.13 trillion in his last year.
During Biden’s four fiscal years, which will conclude on September 30, 2024, it will be $7.75 trillion.
Furthermore, between Fiscal Years 2009 to 2016, when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president, their total debt was $7.29 trillion.
Therefore, during Biden’s abominable 12 years as president or vice president, his debt will be $15.04 trillion, or a humongous 43% of America’s total debt of $35 trillion under 45 presidents.
As the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously noted, “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
In contrast to Biden’s atrocious showing during last month’s world-shaking debate, Trump wisely didn’t attempt to step into the same river from 2020.
He didn’t re-litigate that year’s controversial election and humbly confessed:
“I wish he was a great president because I wouldn’t be here right now… [T]he only reason I’m here is he’s so bad as president that I’m going to make America great again.”
Additionally, Trump was more focused and less sarcastic than during the two debates in 2020.
And he relentlessly hammered Biden for ruining America during a 42-month, far-left dictatorship with horrendous policies, including enabling the entry of more than 10 million illegal immigrants; soaring crime; weakness overseas; sky-high inflation; a shrunken military; and the weaponization of federal and local prosecutors against him.
Finally, as a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found 60% of Americans said Biden is “not fit” to serve another term, while only 24% said he is, Americans are adamant about not stepping again into a raging river with what they see as a permanently incapacitated Joe Biden.
Mark Schulte is a retired New York City schoolteacher and mathematician who has written extensively about science and the history of science. Read Mark Schulte's Reports — More Here.