To intentionally use an awkward double negative, Joe Biden can’t not lie. As his mortal enemy Donald Trump might say, “Everyone knows it. People are telling me that, if you want to know the truth.”
Welp, turns out that everyone also knows that the Biden presidential campaign is no more than an extension of a dishonest man who lacks the capacity to be honest and will stoop to any low to survive.
What follows is a quintessential case in point.
The Biden campaign on Monday attacked veteran Fox News host John Roberts for questioning Biden’s claim that he was the first president to push through a cap of $35 for a one-month supply of insulin medication.
I seem to remember that back in May of 2020, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid said that President Trump had signed an executive order to cap the price of insulin for Medicare recipients at 35 bucks. Now, maybe I’m misremembering that, but I think it kind of already happened.
The collective minds of Team Biden promptly went crazy.
FACT CHECK: This is a blatant lie. Trump did not cap insulin costs, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise insulin costs for over a million Americans.
Yeah, no. Better check the facts. And they attacked Roberts, who has had a distinguished career, not Trump. But the mere notion that Donald Trump did something first that Biden is now pushing led them to lose it.
Fox host tries to claim Trump, not President Biden, capped insulin at $35/month
FACT CHECK: This is a blatant lie. Trump did not cap insulin costs, President Biden did for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s Project 2025 wants to repeal it, which would raise… pic.twitter.com/iDrrBKEIhf
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 3, 2024
Enter George Washington University law professor and Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley.
Incidentally, among my worst nightmares is entering a courtroom as either an attorney or a defendant and seeing Jonathan Turley on the other side.
In a column titled “‘A Blatant Lie’: The Biden Campaign Falsely Accuses Fox’s John Roberts of Lying About the Insulin Caps,” Turley brilliantly began:
Winston Churchill once said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” It often seems like the Biden White House and campaign has embraced that warning as an operating principle.
The most recent target was the veteran Fox news anchor John Roberts, who was accused of airing “a blatant lie” in questioning Biden’s claim that he was the first president to push through a cap of $35 on insulin treatments. Roberts was entirely correct, but the campaign has still not removed the false attack on his integrity and accuracy.
So why hasn’t the Biden campaign removed the false attack?
Simple answer: Because Democrats don’t give a damn about facts that run counter to their lies or overall narratives. Why not? Because they don’t play to those among us who call out for their various crocks of crap; they only care about – and count on – low-information rank-and-file Democrat voters who swallow their nonsense, hook, line, and sinker, without question.
Here’s more from Turley:
Contrary to the Biden campaign’s claims, Roberts’s recollection was entirely correct. Under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in May 2020 that the Part D Senior Savings Model participating plans would cap insulin copays to $35 per month’s supply, and over 1,750 Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans applied to offer lower insulin costs.
Trump praised the new policy, which was widely covered by the press.
Exactly. Trump’s support was even praised in a White House Rose Garden event.
Even better, the Biden campaign’s “This is a blatant lie” post on X (formerly Twitter) was blistered to smithereens in response.
Flat out lie. This is from https://t.co/w0e3bvl5EH in MAY 2020. https://t.co/yG8BBzbTOi pic.twitter.com/rtebmIwgA4
— Capitalist Mike 🇺🇲 (@Capitalist_Mike) June 3, 2024
Every word of the above is true. Here’ another – from Trump, himself.
@CommunityNotes Trump capped insulin… Joe Biden terminated it so he could swoop in and take credit pic.twitter.com/e55TzBuGjE
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) June 3, 2024
The Biden campaign was unavailable for comment.
The Bottom Line
The Biden administration on January 22, 2021 – just two days after Joe’s inauguration – put a freeze on Trump’s plan to lower insulin prices. So Biden literally reversed Trump’s insulin cap as one of his first EOs, and now comes back, more than three years later, and tries to take credit for it.
Why? He’s Joe Biden— and his presidential campaign staff can’t not lie, either.
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