Biden's Lie About Pittsburgh 'Bridge Collapse' Draws Backlash, But Says the Worst About the Democratic Party
This is the man Democrats want to keep in the White House until 2028?
The Walter Mitty world of President Joe Biden made another disturbing appearance Tuesday when the head of the country’s executive branch and commander in chief of its armed forces stood before an audience of Americans and vividly describe being present to watch an aging bridge collapse in Pittsburgh.
But the tale had the same problem so many Biden stories do.
“That didn’t happen,” as the Republican National Committee’s RNC Research put it in a social media post.
Biden claims he “watched that bridge collapse” in Pittsburgh: “I got there and saw it collapse!”
That didn’t happen. pic.twitter.com/pV3dZwhhKI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 15, 2023
Oh, the bridge collapse happened all right.
As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported at the time, the collapse took place just before 7 a.m. on Jan. 28, 2022, over a ravine in the city’s historic Frick Park.
Fortunately, there were no deaths, but 10 were injured, including four who needed hospital care, the newspaper reported.
Unfortunately for Joe Biden, and any Democrat who thinks he’s remotely competent to handle the demands of the Oval Office, Biden was nowhere near the scene when the crash took place, much less in a position to give a first-hand account. He was scheduled to visit the city that day — but didn’t arrive until hours after the incident.
That wasn’t how Biden told the story on Tuesday in Milwaukee, according to the White House transcript of his remarks:
“You were — a lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh,” Biden said. “… I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse with over 200 feet off the ground, going over a valley. And it collapsed.”
Biden’s White House last year told a somewhat more realistic story. Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki wrote in a social media post that “@POTUS has been told of the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. Our team is in touch with state and local officials on the ground as they continue to gather information about the cause of the collapse.”
As The Washington Times noted, Biden did visit the scene and met with rescue workers and construction workers in the aftermath of the collapse. But he wasn’t there when it took place.
And social media came alive with mockery — and disgust.
Meaning he saw it on TV and imagined he was there, like most of his falsely claimed experiences.
— G L (@TruthOut4All) August 15, 2023
Incredible how often he lies.
— Hunter Mahan (@HunterMahan) August 15, 2023
“He is truly disconnected from reality,” one X user wrote.
He is truly disconnected from reality
— Rod Hastings (@Rod_Hastings) August 15, 2023
Another added, “He’s a pathological liar and it’s disgusting and embarrassing.”
He’s a pathological liar and it’s disgusting and embarrassing.
— Wesley Ricker (@RickerWesley) August 15, 2023
But there were some comments that cut to the real problem — the fabulist Joe Biden, who appears to believe his own lies down to the marrow of his bone — is the man who’s in charge of the United States government.
Isn’t that cute. Oh wait. No it’s not. He is president.
— Mark Rousseau (@TwitMark11) August 15, 2023
This man really should be removed immediately.
— Mary Martis (@MaryMartis4) August 16, 2023
While Democrats and the establishment media distract the country by waging legal warfare against former President Donald Trump, Biden’s serial fabrications — and what they say about the man’s mental condition — go virtually unnoticed.
While Trump faces charges in four jurisdictions — so far — on spurious “crimes,” Biden and his family skate scot-free amid evidence piling up of influence peddling that amounted to payments of tens of millions of dollars to the Biden clan.
Biden’s long, long political career abounds with examples of his being a shameless liar, from the plagiarism that derailed his first presidential bid in 1988 (1988!) to vindictively smearing the man who drove the truck that was involved in the traffic accident that killed Biden’s first wife, he’s a man who’s a stranger to the truth.
At the age of 80, he’s also demonstrably in mental decline that could well be dementia.
(On Tuesday, according to the White House transcript, he also trotted out the thoroughly debunked legend of the Amtrak conductor and his celebration of Joe’s miles traveled. Still, Biden keeps telling it.)
And as regular revelations from House Republican investigators show, he’s almost certainly corrupt, with a past of using his office for personal gain for himself and for his family.
But his is the man, above all other men and women in the United States, that the Democratic Party wants to be in the White House for another four years?
There’s one reason for that and one reason only: Democrats are terrified they don’t have another candidate who could defeat Trump — a man who hasn’t even won the GOP nomination yet.
That says more about the modern Democratic Party — about both its weakness and its disregard for anything but raw political power — than it does about either Biden or Trump.
The fact that that party currently dominates American politics is why every conservative, Republican or independent who cares about the United States and its future needs to turn out in 2024 no matter who the Republican nominee is.
The country can’t afford another four years of this.
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