• Biden repeats civil-rights whopper in a desperate re-election bid

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    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 that 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 a 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.

    https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/opinion/biden-repeats-civil-rights-whopper- in-a-desperate-re-election-bid/

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