Whether it was “senioritis” or just a habit he can’t break after so many decades of getting away it, President Biden in what was supposed to be a major campaign address repeated a whopper he’s already admitted isn’t remotely true.
Aiming to highlight the threat of “white supremacy,” on Monday he visited the Bethel AME Church in Charleston, SC, where Dylan Roof shot nine black churchgoers dead in 2015.
But he couldn’t stop himself from claiming phony cred, insisting he’d “spent more time in the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del., than most people I know, black or white” — because “that’s where I started a civil rights movement.”
No, and no: He’s pushed versions of that same baloney time and again, even going so far as to claim he got arrested for his civil-rights activism only to see it debunked.
Biden, for example, has said he attended civil-rights organizing sessions at Wilmington’s Union Baptist Church, yet congregants and a longtime assistant to the pastor at the time have said they don’t recall any of that.
And he himself has admitted he wasn’t involved in the civil-rights movement.
“I was not an activist,” he confessed in 1987. “I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else.”
Heck, his own veep has slammed his history on racial issues: It was personally “hurtful” to hear Biden “talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race,” Kamala Harris lectured during the 2020 primaries.
OK: Biden lies compulsively about his past.
He wasn’t just “raised in the black church” but also “in the synagogues in my state” and “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.” Oh, and he “grew up in a Polish community.”
This goes to his utter insincerity in thundering about “white supremacy” now.
Hell, he played the same basic card back in 2012, warning that Republicans want “y’all back in chains” (yes, he used fake drawl) when the GOP nominee was milquetoast Mitt Romney.
His disastrous record leaves him hemorrhaging black support, so he’s falling back on lies that used to work for him.
If it weren’t so disgraceful, it’d be truly sad.