Politicians Joe Biden On Telling The Truth And Defending Democracy Propaganda ?

Pedophile Joe Biden Apologizes for Telling the Truth It used to be that lying got politicians into trouble. For Vice President Joe Biden, it’s truth-telling that causes a stir. Joe Biden allegedly directed $1.8 billion in aid money to Ukraine as Vice President while his son Hunter received millions of dollars from Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, according to Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior Breitbart editor-at-large.Show more

As The Hill‘s John Solomon reported Monday, Hunter Biden was paid upwards of $166,000 per month to sit on the board of Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015.

“We’ve talked before about the deals he procured with the government for China, Schweizer said Tuesday night on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight. “The other place [Joe Biden’s] son, Hunter Biden, procured a big deal was in Ukraine. In Ukraine, it involved an energy company called Burisma, which is a very corrupt organization headed by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky who is very close to Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Russian leader.”

“There’s all kinds of questions and implications. Is there a Russian component to this, because Burisma is such a corrupt company?” Schweizer added.

“The bottom line is Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point-person on policy towards Ukraine,” said Schweizer. “He steered $1.8 billion in aid to that government and while he was doing so, his son got a sweetheart deal with this energy company – that we’ve been able to trace over just a 14-month period – paid $3.1 million into an account where Hunter Biden was getting paid.”

Schweizer highlighted Hunter Biden’s lack of professional or experiential bona fides in terms of his board position at Burisma Holdings.

“Suffice to say, Hunter Biden has no background in Ukraine,” stated Schweizer. “He has no background in energy policy. There’s really no legitimate explanation as to why he got this deal with this energy company, other than the fact his father was responsible for doling out money in Ukraine itself.”

Schweizer went on, “It’s a huge problem, and it goes to this question of corruption and potential payoffs and bribes that these foreign entities were making to the Bidens in exchange for hopefully getting favorable treatment.”

Despite the Robert Mueller-led operation’s ostensible pursuit of “collusion” between President Donald Trump and the Russian state, Schweizer noted actual financial dealings between the Biden family and foreign interests. –Breitbart

“One of the phrases that has been tossed around as it relates to the Russian collusion hoax was ‘obstruction of justice’ by Trump, and there’s been no — at least in my mind — evidence that that ever happened, and it doesn’t seem that Mueller felt any charges should be brought on that count. But in this case, you would have a pretty clear-cut case of obstruction of justice, where Joe Biden is saying to Ukrainian officials, ‘We are not going to give you this billion-dollar loan guarantee unless you fire this guy.'” added Schweizer.

On Wednesday we reported that Biden bragged last year to an audience of foreign policy experts how he threatened to hurl Ukraine into bankruptcy if their top prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin, wasn’t immediately fired, according to The Hill‘s John Solomon. Shokin was investigating Burisma.

In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. –The Hill

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko.

“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden said at the Council on Foreign Relations event – while insisting that former president Obama was complicit in the threat.

Shokin was leading a wide-ranging corruption investigation into Burisma while Hunter Biden sat on the board.

The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.

U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015,during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia. -The Hill

We wonder if Biden will grope for an excuse to explain this apparent Ukrainian “enrichment” scheme.

The latest furor started after he spoke at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government last Thursday. Mr. Biden said American allies including Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had extended unconditional financial and logistical support to Sunni fighters trying to oust the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.

“Our allies poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against al-Assad,” he said, including jihadists planning to join the Nusra Front and Al Qaeda.

Mr. Biden also confided that Turkey’s “President Erdogan told me — he is an old friend — “‘You were right. We let too many people through. Now we are trying to seal the border.’”

There is little doubt that his basic facts are accurate, confirmed by news reports in The Times and other media and by Western officials. Yet Mr. Biden was forced to officially apologize to Turkey late Saturday after Mr. Erdogan demanded it. He issued another apology on Sunday after the United Arab Emirates also took umbrage.

“The vice president apologized for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL or other violent extremists in Syria,” Mr. Biden’s spokeswoman said.

Mr. Biden, who may run for president in 2016, has a reputation for unvarnished pronouncements. In 2012 he caused a ruckus when, during a television interview, he endorsed same-sex marriage before President Obama did. The timing may have been impolitic but his position was the right one.

In the current instance, Mr. Biden should have exercised some restraint and not publicly shared his conversation with President Erdogan. But the basic truth — that Turkey and other countries enabled Islamic State and other extremists — can’t be wished away. The United States, Turkey, Qatar, the U.A.E. and other countries in the region have a mutual need to work together to counter ISIS or ISIL. That means owning up to the mistakes that have allowed the group to flourish and correcting them, including shutting down Turkey as a transit corridor for ISIS revenue, weapons and foreign fighters.

Lies, damned lies and the truth about Joe Biden Nancy Pelosi dismissed Tara Reade’s accusations of sexual assault against Joe Biden. “I know him,” said the House Speaker authoritatively, and that was that.

Does Biden’s record warrant such confidence? Not really. In fact, Biden has a long history of lying — about himself, about his past and about events that never took place.

Democrats want the 2020 campaign to be a referendum on President Trump. Fine, but if this is to be a contest of characters, it is only appropriate that Joe Biden’s history of fabrication and deceit – often intended to bolster his intellectual credentials – also be fair game.

Over the past year, Biden thundered that the Obama administration “didn’t lock people up in cages.” He also claimed that, “Immediately, the moment [the Iraq War] started, I came out against it.” And… “I was always labeled one of the most liberal members of Congress.” Politico’s rating of all three assertions? False.

No one should be surprised. Lest we forget…

A video is making the rounds in which Biden boasts at a 1987 rally, “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship…[and] ended up in the top half of my class.”

Biden also maintained that he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school” and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.”

Not one of those claims was true, as newscasters at the time affirmed. In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline.

Biden explained in his 2007 autobiography “Promises to Keep” that he had been angry at that rally since “it sounded to me that one of my own supporters doubted my intelligence.” According to a 1987 Newsweek piece, a supporter had “politely” asked Biden what law school he attended and how well he had done.

Biden bristled, saying “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do,” reeled off his fabricated accomplishments and concluded “I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like, Frank.”

The episode reminds us of Biden recently snapping “You’re full of sh*t” at an auto worker who dared to challenge Biden’s stance on guns; or calling an Iowa voter a “damn liar” for insinuating that Biden had helped his son gain access in Ukraine.

The Newsweek reporter wrote that Biden appears “hyper, glib and intellectually insecure,” and says the 1987 encounter was critical to understanding why Biden’s first run at higher office flopped. “The clip…reflects a view of Biden’s character widely shared in the community. Reporters and political consultants long ago concluded that Biden’s chief character flaw was his tendency to wing it. He seems to lack a crucial synapse between brain and tongue, the one that makes the do-I-really-want-to-say-this decision.”

That commentary holds up well, as today more than ever Biden blunders into conversational crevasses, with no way out. (Think: “If they believe Tara Reade, they probably shouldn’t vote for me.” A new Harvard-Harris poll shows 55 percent of the country believes Tara Reade. Game. Set. Match.)

Biden’s 1987 campaign foundered also because he was caught lifting passages of a speech given by Neil Kinnock. Biden echoed (falsely) the British Labor leader’s history that he was the first “in a thousand generations” to graduate from college and repeated virtually verbatim the same story about his wife, just as Kinnock had.

More shocking, Biden claimed: “My ancestors…worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours,’’ even though no one in Biden’s family tree ever worked underground. That was Kinnock’s family.

It wasn’t the first time; Biden had also been caught plagiarizing during law school. He “borrowed” an entire five pages from a published law review article without attribution and had to beg not to be expelled.

Interestingly, just last summer complaints arose about Biden “borrowing” the work of others, in putting together his climate plan. As Vox reported, Biden’s plan “contains a number of passages that seem to have been copied and pasted, at times with very superficial changes” from a variety of sources.

Biden supporters will dismiss these episodes as being in the distant past. But Biden’s tendency to mislead did not expire in 1988. More recently, the former vice president has told audiences that after his stint in the White House, “I became a teacher. I became a professor.” While it is true that he took a lofty salary to make a handful of speeches for the University of Pennsylvania, Biden has never taught students.

Then there was the inspiring tale of visiting Afghanistan to honor a heroic naval officer. Biden described the officer’s actions in detail, adding, “This is God’s truth, my word as a Biden.” But according to a review in the Washington Post, no such incident occurred. Biden was lucky not to be hit by lightning.

There were also Biden’s claims of having been arrested in the 1970s because he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. Nope, didn’t happen. He has also cast himself as a civil rights activist and co-sponsor of the Endangered Species Act; those things aren’t true either.

Character does not change. Biden’s winning smile and genial nature have granted him license to mislead. But as Biden denies alleged misdeeds related to General Flynn, to his son Hunter’s involvement in Ukraine or to Tara Reade, his history of bending the truth is informative.

Democrats will counter that President Trump frequently exaggerates and embellishes, which is true. But we know Trump; he has been on the griddle for nearly four years, and been continually stripped and flayed by a hostile press.

Biden promises truth after Trump's lies. How to hold leaders accountable for their words. Truth from leaders is a human right. To accept that politicians are allowed to lie is to accept the end of representative government.

President Joe Biden couldn’t have been clearer. At the dawn of his administration, he began with an unequivocal declaration about the fundamental importance truth plays in our democracy — and, crucially, the responsibility leaders have to adhere to it. “There is truth and there are lies,” he said in his inaugural address. “Each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders — leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation — to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”

The statement was a welcome and necessary corrective after four years of an administration that not only disregarded the truth, but also used lies as a tool of governance and policy. However, if those years have shown us anything, it is that we must not take Biden or any leader at his (or her) word when it comes to the truth. It is too important.

Instead, we must demand that our leaders tell the people the truth, especially when it is difficult. We must demand our right to truth and hold elected officials who violate that right accountable, not only at the ballot box, but also at the podium, on television, online and in the courts.

Yes, elected representatives have First Amendment rights. Acting as regular citizens, they can lie as much as the next person, morals and ethics notwithstanding. But when they use the powers of their office to intentionally lie to the public for their own personal gain, they violate their oaths and must be held accountable. To accept otherwise — to accept that politicians are allowed to lie — is to accept the end of representative government.

Indeed, truth is the lifeblood of democracy. We depend on public health officials to give us evidence-based advice on how to survive the pandemic, not politicians pushing dangerous quackery. For our economies to recover, we need financial strategies based on accurate and provable metrics, not made-up partisan talking points. To make informed choices at the ballot box, we need objective facts and evidence, not conspiracy theories. The right to truth already exists in international human rights law in the context of mass violations of human rights, where the doctrine requires the state to do what it can to identify and disclose the truth about these tragedies, often by pressing members of prior regimes to reveal hidden facts known only by the violators.

As such, the doctrine has been used to support truth commissions and oppose blanket amnesty (broad grants of legal immunity after internal conflicts without investigations, individual petitions or the chance to learn the identities and whereabouts of victims and perpetrators).

At least 50 countries or territories have established truth commissions, ranging from informal civil society proceedings to national commissions to international investigative bodies, such as in the cases of the disappearances of political dissidents in Argentina and Chile in the 1970s, systemic brutality under apartheid in South Africa, and decades of conflict preceding the independence of East Timor.

Although the wider goals of these commissions are justice and reconciliation, the principal function of all truth commissions is to destroy the lies that triggered or sustained mass violations of human rights through meticulous compilation and public disclosure of physical evidence, documents and testimony from witnesses, victims, family members and, especially, perpetrators.

Many of us are just getting to know Politician and Pedophile Joe Biden

Joe Biden Quotes:-Joe Biden is an American politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942, and lived there for ten years before moving with his family to Delaware.

He became an attorney in 1969 and was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 when he became the sixth-youngest senator in American history.

In 2008, Biden was chosen as the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. After being elected Vice President, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending aimed at counteracting the Great Recession and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Iraq up until the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011.
Inspirational Joe Biden Quotes.
"said he “shouldn’t have been such a wise guy” on Friday hours after he told a popular African American radio host that anyone struggling to decide whether to support him or President Donald Trump in the general election “ain’t black.”-Joe Biden
“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”-Joe Biden
“Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.”-Joe Biden
“America doesn’t have health insurance.”-Joe Biden
“Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‘War,’ by Sebastian Junger.”-Joe Biden
“Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.”-Joe Biden
“In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.”-Joe Biden
“As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.”-Joe Biden
“Corruption is just another form of tyranny.”-Joe Biden
Most Ridiculous Joe Biden Quotes.
“Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.”-Joe Biden
“During the ’60s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.”-Joe Biden
“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.”-Joe Biden
“I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.”-Joe Biden
“I can die a happy man having never” been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.”-Joe Biden
“I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.”-Joe Biden
“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”-Joe Biden
“I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with.”-Joe Biden
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“I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.”-Joe Biden
“No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.”-Joe Biden
“I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.”-Joe Biden
“Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.”-Joe Biden
“I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.”-Joe Biden
“Life is a matter of really tough choices.”-Joe Biden
“I have ‘Parents’ magazine in my home.”-Joe Biden
“Nowhere is it written that there must be a conflict” between the United States and China.”-Joe Biden
“I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.”-Joe Biden
joe Biden quotes about life.
“I love that Cadillac ATS!”-Joe Biden
“The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.”-Joe Biden
“I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.”-Joe Biden
“I was not an activist.”-Joe Biden
“If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.”-Joe Biden
“In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.”-Joe Biden
“Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.”-Joe Biden
“In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.”-Joe Biden
Best Humorous Joe Biden quotes.
“Income inequity has to be addressed.”-Joe Biden
“It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.”-Joe Biden
“It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.”-Joe Biden
“I’ve been really, really fortunate.”-Joe Biden
“Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.”-Joe Biden
“I know I’m not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.”-Joe Biden
“Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.”-Joe Biden
“I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.”-Joe Biden
“No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.”-Joe Biden
“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.”-Joe Biden
Top Inspirational Joe Biden quotes.
“One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.”-Joe Biden
“Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.”-Joe Biden
“Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.”-Joe Biden
“Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.”-Joe Biden
“In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”-Joe Biden
“The American people have not become heartless.”-Joe Biden
“I used to say to my late wife, ‘I have great faith in the American people.”-Joe Biden
“The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.”-Joe Biden
“The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.”-Joe Biden
Top 10 Joe Biden quotes.
“The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.”-Joe Biden
“There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.”-Joe Biden
“There’s no political point worth my son’s life.”-Joe Biden
“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”-Joe Biden
“We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.”-Joe Biden
“I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.”-Joe Biden
“You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.”-Joe Biden

Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994 crime bill the next These are not gaffes. Democrats like Joe Biden are running scared because the Trump administration has been good for African Americans.

Much attention has been rightfully devoted to bigoted comments former Vice President Joe Biden made during his Friday interview with “The Breakfast Club” when he had the audacity to say "Well I tell you what, If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."

As a black man who voted for Donald J. Trump for president in 2016, and plans to do so in 2020, no 77-year-old white man from Delaware has the right, authority or rationale to question my blackness or the blackness of millions of Americans exercising our God-given right to be free and exercise our constitutionally granted power to vote for whomever we want, even if they are Republican.

If you only watch the sound bites of the interview, you miss his full-throated support and defense of the 1994 crime bill. Biden literally tried to convince black America that our communities weren't destroyed, black families weren't ripped apart, and black wealth was not stifled for generations because of a bill he designed.

Even the host from “The Breakfast Club” agrees. After the interview, host Charlamagne tha God said, “He really was one of the people on the front lines when it came to the war on drugs, and mass incarceration. If he wants to be president, he needs to fix that."

Joe Biden's record is a shame
The black community is well aware of the real impact of his signature legislation. The Center for American Progress sums it up: “The crime bill also expanded the school-to-prison pipeline and increased racial disparities in juvenile justice involvement by creating draconian penalties for so-called super predators — low-income children of color, especially black children, who are convicted of multiple crimes.”

Thanks to President Trump’s courageous leadership pushing for historic criminal justice reform and signing the First Step Act into law, he helped reverse the pain and suffering many black men and women experienced because of Biden’s bill.

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If Biden felt any remorse over what he helped do to the black community, he could have spent his next decades of service to Delaware to undo the damage, but he didn’t. If Biden was so connected, concerned, and passionate about helping and uplifting the black community he would have publicly pushed President Barack Obama to get criminal justice reform over the finish line, but he was silent.

Biden and the Democratic National Committee seem to look at black Americans just as votes and not as actual people, with brains, feelings and families. Liberal policies have not made it easier for black business owners to navigate fewer regulations, pay less in taxes, and be lifted out of poverty. Liberal policies were not responsible for historic low black unemployment, and the creation of opportunity zones. But the Trump administration did. So, Biden should not be asking black America to compare his record to that of Trump's.

Democrats try to scare black voters
What this entire episode shows us is Biden and his team are running scared of the continued black engagement efforts of the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign’s Black Voices for Trump Coalition, which are doing the work to build the relationships and amplify the record of achievement of this current administration. Biden is threatened. So, his latest voter intimidation tactic is to scare black voters into submission by attempting to take away our cultural identity if we do not vote for him.

Curiously, we have not heard from former President Obama, or from several of the black women who are rumored to be on Biden’s shortlist for vice president. So far, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, Florida Rep. Val Demings, and former Ambassador Susan Rice are keeping mum or giving him a pass. Why let bigoted comments get in the way of their own political interests?

Thankfully, Black Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Bob Johnson called him out saying in part “This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without question; even though we as black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every black person he meets.”

Yes, Biden issued an apology, not for being a bigot, or offensive, rude or arrogant, but he only said, “I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy. I shouldn’t have been so cavalier.” A lackluster response to match his lackluster record of fighting for the black community.

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Add it to the list of racist things he has said as an elected official, like saying of his political opponents "They're gonna put y'all back in chains;" and talking about Obama as "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy;" and "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

This is Joe Biden. These are not gaffes. His horrible record matches his horrible rhetoric. The contrast between him and President Trump on the issues of jobs, justice, the economy, historically black colleges and universities, and even pandemic management is one that Biden is not prepared to have, especially as he insults black Americans in the process.

The presumptive Democratic nominee’s comment came at the end of an at times tense interview with Charlamagne tha God on “The Breakfast Club.”

A staffer interjected that Biden needed to go, and Charlamagne shot back: “You can’t do that to black media!”

“I do that to white media and black media because my wife has to go on at 6 o’clock,” Biden said, referring to his wife Jill Biden apparently needing to use the broadcast studio they’ve built in their basement in Delaware as the coronavirus pandemic has knocked Biden off the campaign trail. Glancing at his watch, Biden said, “uh oh, I’m in trouble.”

Charlamagne told Biden that he should come to the studio in New York City for another interview, telling the former vice president that “we’ve got more questions.”

“You’ve got more questions?” Biden replied. “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

Charlamagne responded, “It don’t have nothing to do with Trump. It has to do with the fact, I want something for my community.”

“Take a look at my record, man!” Biden shot back.

Later on Friday afternoon, Biden addressed his comments in a call with the US Black Chamber of Commerce, saying, “I shouldn’t have been so cavalier” and insisting he doesn’t take black voters for granted.

“The bottom line of all of this perhaps I was much too cavalier. I know that the comments have come off like I was taking the African American vote for granted but nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve never, ever done that and I’ve earned it every time I’ve run,” he said.

“I was making the point that I never take the vote for granted and in fact I know in order to win the presidency, I need the African American vote,” Biden said. “I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy. I shouldn’t have been so cavalier.”

Biden at times during the 2020 race has quickly become testy when challenged over his record by groups the former vice president believes would fare worse under Trump. In November, he told a protester criticizing former President Barack Obama’s record on deportations that “you should vote for Trump.”

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The interview was Biden’s first appearance on “The Breakfast Club,” a popular nationally syndicated radio show broadcast from New York City that other leading Democratic presidential candidates appeared on during the primary.

Charlamagne said during an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Friday night that the former vice president’s comments were “just a shock coming from an old white man like Joe Biden.”

He called Biden “a very intricate part” of the legal system disenfranchising black Americans. He cited Biden’s role in legislation such as the 1994 crime bill, which expanded the federal death penalty and created dramatically harsher sentencing laws including “three strikes,” mandatory life terms for people with at least three federal violent crime or drug convictions.

If Biden wants to be president, he needs to “really help the people that have helped Democrats, all of these years,” Charlamagne added.

Biden’s win in the Democratic primary was fueled primarily by his support from African American voters, particularly older ones, who catapulted him to the win in South Carolina that set the stage for Biden to all but end the race in the following weeks.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Biden with 81% support among black voters to Trump’s 3%.

“Vice President Biden has spent his career fighting alongside and for the African American community. He won his party’s nomination by earning every vote and meeting people where they are and that’s exactly what he intends to do this November,” senior Biden adviser Symone Sanders said of the interview on Twitter.

She added: “The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day. Period.”

Trump’s campaign used Biden’s comment to portray him as taking black voters for granted.

Katrina Pierson, a Trump campaign senior adviser, said in a statement that Biden “believes black men and women are incapable of being independent or free thinking.”

Trump in 2016 argued that black voters should reject Democrats who he argued had taken their votes for granted and back him, saying, “What the hell do you have to lose?”

Biden has frequently criticized Trump’s history of racist comments and actions, which includes questioning former President Barack Obama’s citizenship, expressing frustration with immigrants from “s***hole countries” and referring to white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and counter-protesters by saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”

In the radio interview, Biden declined to name people on his list of those being considered for the vice presidential nomination, but said:”I guarantee you, there are multiple black women being considered. Multiple.”

Charlamagne pressed Biden on his role in enacting the 1994 crime bill as a US senator, which Biden defended, saying Hillary Clinton was “wrong” in 2016 to apologize for it and that Republicans had insisted on the inclusion of mandatory minimum sentencing.

Biden also defended his calls to decriminalize marijuana, rather than legalize it. He said that before legalizing it, he wants to wait and see the results of studies on “what it affects, doesn’t affect in long-term development of the brain. And we should wait till the studies are done.”

“I think we got decades of studies from actual weed smokers though,” Charlamagne cut in.

“Yeah, I do,” Biden said. “I know a lot of weed smokers.” This story has been updated with additional comments from Biden and Charlamagne tha God Friday afternoon.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a post that labeled former Vice President Joe Biden a pedophile. The tweet featured a 2015 image of Biden comforting the wife of then-Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

Trump retweeted the post from Twitter user "Conservative Girl" Tuesday morning which features the baseless accusation. Its caption reads, "We can beat them at their game #PedoBiden." The GIF depicted in the tweet shows then-Vice President Biden leaning in and rubbing the shoulders of Stephanie Carter, who is the adult wife of former Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

The image of Biden and the Carter couple at the February 2015 swearing-in ceremony at the podium prompted "#MeToo" accusations among conservatives at the time. But Carter herself penned an essay in March 2019 in which she defended Biden's behavior and praised him for offering her comfort as she was "uncharacteristically nervous" during the ceremony. Carter said the manipulated images of her and Biden "didn't dignify a response," but critics of Biden have nonetheless used it to slander his character.

Trump and his supporters have used baseless accusations in the past to try to tie Biden to allegations of pedophilia. But as Politifact noted in response to such accusations in August, "there is no credible evidence that supports this claim" despite Biden's presence in the public eye for four decades.

The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has posted several edited videos and images accusing Biden—and Democrats at large—of pedophilia. In tweets and Instagram posts earlier this month, Trump Jr. accused Democrats of "normalizing pedophilia."

Carter, who appears alongside her husband in Tuesday's post shared by the president, blasted critics for using screenshots of the image to accuse Biden of sexual misconduct and otherwise "creepy" behavior. In her 2019 essay looking to reclaim the narrative of the image, Carter wrote, "A still shot taken from the video—misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends—sent out in a snarky tweet—came to be the lasting image of the day."

Although Trump's "PedoBiden" retweet still appears live as of Tuesday morning, Twitter has taken down similar posts by the president in the past. One of the social media platform's tweet-reporting features allows users to flag posts deemed "misleading about a political election or other civic event." This includes any post which users say "misrepresents its affiliation with or impersonates a candidate, elected official, political party, or government entity."

If we're punishing politicians for lying about their past, start with Joe Biden
George Santos is a despicable, lying fraud. He's lied about his ethnicity, background, parents, and experience, among other things. If there was anything that could be embellished, George Santos probably did it. His deceit would be comical if it weren't so tragic. Santos should be held accountable with punitive actions for his lies. However, if we are now going to be genuinely outraged and start punishing politicians for lying about their past, we can begin with President Joe Biden.

Biden's lies do not excuse what Santos did in any way. This isn't a case of "whataboutism" or some attempted rationalization predicated on universally applying the same standards for all politicians. Yet, this doesn't change the fact that many Democrats, such as Joe Biden, have their own sordid history regarding what they told voters about their past. And when these Democrats were exposed, other politicians, pundits, and talking heads in the media — basically the same people in a huff about Santos — did not have the same outrage then as they do now. This is particularly concerning since it was not just Biden who lied.

GOP OFFICIAL CASTS DOUBT ON SANTOS'S FUTURE

One of the more notable Democrats exposed for lying about their past was Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). In 2018, it was revealed that Warren falsely claimed Native American heritage; she wrote that she was an "American Indian" on a registration card in 1986 for the State Bar of Texas. It is believed Warren did such to appear as a racial minority, which could help improve her career prospects.

At first, Warren denied any wrongdoing and reiterated her indigenous heritage, even filming the results of a DNA test to try to show the legitimacy of her claims. It backfired. As a result, Warren apologized. The punishment for her deception? Nothing. She offered an apology, and it was swept under the rug.

Then, around a year after her heritage controversy, Warren launched a campaign to run for president. She didn't win, of course, but the fact that she did so reveals the different standards for her compared to Santos.

But this inconsistency in outrage is nothing new.

Consider Biden's comments about his past. There are so many to choose from it's hard to figure out exactly where to begin.

He wasn't truthful during a recent speech in Florida about the death of his son, Beau. He stated that Beau died while fighting in Iraq.

"They talk about inflation … inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia's doing. ... Excuse me, the war in Ukraine," the president said. "I'm thinking about Iraq because that's where my son died."

But this was not true. Biden's son passed away from brain cancer in 2015 at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. There hasn't been any explanation given as to why Biden said this.

There was also the moment when Biden falsely claimed that his first wife died in a car crash in which the driver who struck his wife's vehicle was drunk. This was also not true.

Biden's first wife tragically died in a car crash with a tractor-trailer in 1972. The wreck also killed his infant daughter. Over the years, Biden claimed, on multiple occasions, that the driver involved in the crash was drunk. However, there wasn't any evidence to support this claim. Moreover, the state official who investigated the accident denied any sobriety issues caused the crash.

Biden also previously "Santos-d" his law school ranking while campaigning for president in 1987. Other tall tales told by Biden include his dishonesty about his academic credentials, the number of undergraduate degrees he earned, being arrested in South Africa, being raised in a Puerto Rican community, and interaction with his son Hunter about his business dealings — among many, many more. In fact, it could be legitimately argued that Joe Biden was George Santos before George Santos was.

None of this excuses Santos or lessens his egregious deception. But, the Left's outrage over Santos is as credible as Santos's "Jew-ish" heritage. Rightfully, they criticize Santos. Wrongfully, they ignore Biden's struggles with the truth — a sin they continue to do regularly.

These double standards and inconsistent outrage are hallmarks of the Left. There isn't any moral compass, just political theater to influence public opinion. George Santos deserves scrutiny and criticism for his inability to be honest with the public. But so do politicians such as Warren and Biden. Let's hold all lying politicians accountable, not just the ones with "R's" after their names. ? Really ?

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