President Biden's speech the other day was positively Shakespearean, as in Macbeth when he says of life, "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare wrote those words more than 400 years ago, and they apply well to Biden's speech in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania this past Friday, just prior to the third anniversary of the Jan. 6th "insurrection."
He played this overblown Capitol protest like a violin (cue Nero fiddling while Rome burns in Shakespeare's "Henry IV").
President Biden called Jan. 6th "a day forever shared in our memory because it was on that day that we nearly lost America — lost it all."
We did?
We are a much stronger nation than this.
Can we just stop with this nonsense? Now.
President Biden spent zero time laying out promises to resolve the border crisis, reduce fentanyl and opioid deaths of more than 100,000 Americans every year, or cut government spending that fuels inflation. Nor did he utter, even once, the word "Bidenomics."
Instead, the number one word he used more than any other in his 4,000-word speech was "Trump," mentioning the former president's name 44 times, a White House transcript shows.
Biden cited "insurrection" or "insurrectionists" a dozen times, more than he invoked the "future" (nine times).
President Biden claimed, "Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. He's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power."
Biden and the Democrats do this a lot, projecting onto someone else (Trump) the very sins which they themselves are guilty of committing.
They've indicted Trump on four fronts — more than mob boss John Gotti ever faced.
They have pushed Trump off the ballot in Colorado and Maine, with similar attempts in 30 other states; and covered for Hunter Biden's transgressions; and pressured social media platforms to censor conservative views in violation of the First Amendment.
But, yeah —Trump is the threat to democracy.
President Biden made other questionable claims, either knowingly or cluelessly.
He said of Jan. 6: "Jill and I attended the funeral of police officers who died as a result of the events of that day."
No police officer was killed that day. Four officers later committed suicide.
Biden also invoked a story from 2020 that claimed Trump had called military veterans "losers" and "suckers" at an event, though this was denied by Trump and even by a critic who was there, former U.S. National Security Adviser (2018-2019) John Bolton.
Biden said he when heard this story, "It was right around the time I was at Beau's grave. How dare he? Who in God's name does he think he is?"
The president's son, Beau, died five years before this Trump story broke.
He was a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard and had brain cancer.
President Biden also claimed that Trump "went on to say he would be a dictator on Day One," when Trump said the opposite in a joke: "Other than Day One: we're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator." (Italics added.)
On his first day in office, President Biden issued 17 executive orders on such things as putting the U.S. back under the Paris Accords (or the Paris Climate Accords), of 2015/2016, which killed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline
Biden also extended the Civil Rights Act to gay and trans federal employees, halting Trump's border wall, ending a travel ban on several predominately Muslim nations, vacating a Trump order for finding and deporting illegal aliens, and reviving the "Dreamers" act.
It's different when Democrats do it, apparently.
Likewise, questioning an election outcome was OK when Democrats did it in 2000 with Al Gore, and in 2016 with Hillary Clinton, and in 2022 with Stacy Abrams in the Georgia governor's race.
On Jan. 6, 2021, several hundred unarmed jerks got out of line, while hundreds of other unarmed people calmly strolled through the Capitol after being welcomed in by police.
Nobody was plotting to overthrow the government, no arms were seized, and nobody was killed, except for Ashli Babbitt, a 34-year-old Air Force veteran who served for 12 years.
At five feet two inches tall and 115 pounds, she was clad in a Trump flag as she climbed through a shattered window into the Capitol.
She was shot dead by a Capitol police officer who was called a hero for it.
And Joe Biden just won't let it go.
Dennis Kneale is a writer and media strategist in New York and host of the podcast, "What's Bugging Me." Previously, he was an anchor at CNBC and at Fox Business Network, after serving as a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and managing editor of Forbes. Read Dennis Kneale's reports — More Here.
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