Last week, at a friendly fundraiser in Houston, Texas (would his puppeteers ever even consider trotting him out in front of any other type of gathering?) Joe Biden said this:
“Just a few days ago, [Donald Trump] asked a famous question in one of his rallies: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
“Well, Donald, I’m glad you asked that question, man. I hope everyone in the country takes a moment to think back what it was like in March of 2020.”
“Remember when he said inject bleach?” I think he must’ve done it.”
The crowd loved it, of course. They would have cheered anything negative about Trump…which is why Biden was sent out in front of them in the first place.
But what about the comments themselves?
Let’s start with the fact that when a presidential candidate asks if you are better off now than four years ago, that candidate is not asking about the specific date. The candidate is asking about the general tenor of things.
Biden’s reference, of course, was to the advent of the COVID 19 pandemic, when the entire country shut down. No one – not even most of the Trump-hating media and, usually, not even Biden (though I wouldn’t put it past him to feature it at some point in the future) blames Trump for COVID 19. Therefore, the month-to-month reference is a diversionary tactic.
Here’s reality: Four years ago inflation was under 2%, gas prices were in the low $2’s and, in relative terms, the southern border was closed, with border patrol pretty much in control of things. Today inflation is “down” to 3.2%, gas prices are “down” to $3.42, and record numbers of illegals are coming into the country every day. So, yes, we were better off four years ago.
And then we have this claim that Trump told people to inject bleach.
There are numerous instances in which something Trump said was either distorted or lied about outright by Biden and members of what, disgracefully given their lack of professionalism/ethics/integrity, passes for today’s mainstream media.
And the “injection” claim is one of them.
Here, via a fact-check from Texas’s Austin American-Statesman – hardly what you’d call a friend of Mr. Trump’s – is what he actually said (the bold print is mine):
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?”
Trump remarked on the effectiveness of those methods and wondered if they could help address infections in the human body.
Here are his full comments:
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. (To Bryan) And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting, right?”
He continued.
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”
Got that? He didn’t TELL anyone to inject bleach. He didn’t SUGGEST anyone should inject bleach. He ASKED if there were a way it could be done. ASKED, as in “I don’t know the answer, can you tell me?”.
But don’t worry, Joe. Most of your media pals aren’t going to challenge this lie now, any more than they did then. Just like the lie about him calling nazis “very fine people” and the lie about him threatening a “bloodbath”, and etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Trust in media has never been lower. Any doubt about why?
As for trust in Biden (or, to be more accurate, the puppeteers running this administration who send him out to say things like this)? I have a feeling that he makes/they make media look good by comparison.
