On Friday, disregarding all facts to the contrary, President Joe Biden outrageously claimed that “Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself” in a trial prosecuted by a Manhattan district attorney who campaigned promising to convict him and presided over by a conflicted judge.

“Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself,” Biden, who has prompted growing scrutiny regarding his diminishing mental capacity, claimed at the start of a press event the day following Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of an amorphous, so-called “hush money” offense.

Biden claim is contradicted by widespread, national media coverage reporting, including that:

Biden went on to make another axiomatically false claim: “It was a state case, not a federal case.”

In reality, as has been widely reported, Manhattan D.A. Bragg and Judge Merchan usurped a misdemeanor reporting case under federal jurisdiction – which the Justice Department did not pursue – twisted it into a felony charge, and prosecuted it, all without specifying any predicate crime or its elements.