President Joe Biden is planning to attack former President Donald Trump’s character as part of his reelection strategy. Biden may be one of the worst possible messengers for that.
The Biden campaign is spending $50 million on an called “Character Matters,” with the campaign describing it as the “central dynamic of the race” that Trump “only cares about himself.” The ad will focus on the political prosecution of Trump for paying hush money to a porn star, using a Democratic district attorney’s political use of the justice system to label Trump as a felon.
The problem with this, though, is that Biden’s character is severely lacking, and he cares far more about himself and his political ambitions than he does about the public, despite what his campaign would have you believe. In the spirit of this ad, let’s take a walk down memory lane to relive some of the defining moments in Biden’s “character.”
Biden’s daughter and first wife were killed in a car crash in 1972. Biden used this tragedy as part of his 2008 presidential campaign, smearing the truck driver involved in the crash by saying the man was drunk. Not only was that not true, but the truck driver was found not to be at fault in any way for the accident, and yet Biden smeared the man years after his death to score political sympathy points.
This has been common in Biden’s political image-crafting even through to the present. The president and his administration have repeatedly used the death of his son Beau Biden as a political shield against criticism for his botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which got 13 U.S. servicemembers killed and stranded thousands of Americans at the whims of the Taliban. Biden then turned around and kept mentioning his son in meetings with the families of those fallen soldiers, and showed just how “empathetic” he was by checking his watch repeatedly as those soldiers’ remains were brought back to the U.S.
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Even Biden’s loving grandpa schtick is a sham. He ignored the existence of one of his granddaughters for four years, going so far as to hang up stockings during Christmas for his other grandchildren and even for a dog while excluding her. Biden had to be pressured by the New York Times into a throwaway statement acknowledging her before he went off on vacation to avoid any and all questions about her. He made it a point to brag about his six grandchildren when he had seven, all because he considered the seventh one a liability based on the circumstances of her birth.
All of this is before you even get to the damage Biden has done to our politics with his toxic partisanship, from the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas to claiming 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney would put black people back in chains. Trump’s character is lacking, not that anyone ever doubted that, but Biden’s is no better. He and Trump are bizarre mirrors of each other in many ways. The lack of character and moral integrity is near the top of the list.