Joe Biden appears to be suffering from a bad case of malarkey syndrome. A textbook example was presented last week when he was asked about his administration’s proposal to pay up to $450,000 compensation per person to illegal migrant families that had been separated under the Trump administration.
It was “garbage,” “not true” and “not gonna happen,” he told Fox News’ Peter Doocy at a White House press conference Wednesday.
The president was so emphatic, it seemed to be an open-and-shut case. The Wall Street Journal’s story revealing the Department of Justice negotiations with migrant families must be wrong.
But not so fast. If you are familiar enough with the president’s blarney, you may have picked up the sleight of hand in his answer.
Doocy had asked about payments of “up to” $450,000.
Biden repeated the question back to him, without the qualifier, but with a sly smirk: “$450,000 per person, is that what you’re saying? That’s not gonna happen.”
That afternoon, the ACLU, called out the mendacity in the politest way possible, suggesting the president was not “fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department.”
Lo and behold, the next day, Biden was “perfectly comfortable” with the payments, said White House Deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. What he really meant was that the $450,000 figure might not be entirely accurate.
Right.
A lot of people would have heard Biden’s denial and missed the White House walk-back. And that’s no accident.
The day after an election in which his party was shellacked across the nation, the president knew that a policy of rewarding foreigners for breaking our laws was kryptonite to voters.
So he did what he has done all his career. He lied.
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