Biden Delivers Angry Attack on Trump and Jan. 6 in Valley Forge Speech, but Trips Over Reality – RedState . . ."He claimed our freedom, including our freedom to vote, was on the ballot.
" 'Yet, it's the Democrats in multiple states trying to keep Trump off the ballot and depriving millions of people of the right to vote for their choice. That's not Trump posing that threat; that's Democrats.
"Biden claims he ran to be a president for all the people, yet again, he attacked MAGA supporters as not believing in democracy. So once again, he says one thing and then contradicts himself in the next breath.
"In talking about Jan. 6, he called it an insurrection when no one has even been charged with that, including Trump. He told multiple falsehoods, including saying that Trump didn't call for peace on Jan.6, when he most certainly did, first calling on people to act peacefully and patriotically, and then after the riot, telling people there had to be peace and they had to go home.
"Biden also claimed that he went to the funerals of police officers who died as a result of that day. Yet, no police officers were killed during the riot. Brian Sicknick, who died the following day, suffered from a stroke. " . . .
Opinion | Biden’s Demagogic Voting Speech - POLITICO . . ."Biden rightly excoriated former President Donald Trump, if not by name, for his conduct since the election, saying it’s been “selfishness,” not “statesmanship.” True enough. If Trump runs again in 2024 and loses again, there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t, once again, claim he was robbed. There is a good case for tightening up the convoluted Electoral Count Act that might be used by partisans of Trump (or some other Republican or Democratic candidate in the future) to try to change an election outcome at the federal level.
"That’s not what Biden talked about, though. Instead, he lashed the Republican election bills. The approach seems designed to mirror Trump’s effort to undermine his side’s faith in the electoral process with a countervailing effort to undermine his own side’s faith in the electoral process.
"Indeed, if Democrats lose in 2022 or 2024, Biden’s speech may be seen by Democrats as providing an equally corrosive excuse—it was Republican voter suppression.
"This tack already got a successful test run by Stacey Abrams when she lost in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign. She refused to concede and today almost all Democrats treat her as the rightful victor, even though there’s no evidence the election was anything but free and fair (with robust turnout)." . . .
Jonathan Turley Criticizes Biden's 'Anti-Free-Speech Administration' (townhall.com) "George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley had a few choice words for President Joe Biden after he used his first 2024 campaign speech to assault democracy.
"On Friday, Biden spent a significant portion of his campaign speech demonizing former President Trump and fear-mongering Americans by focusing on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests.
"Turley suggested to Fox News that Biden’s speech was hypocritical by talking about the freedom to vote despite his own party attempting to strip Trump’s name from the 2024 ballot.
"During his speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden said that defending democracy was a “central cause” of his administration. However, Turley pointed out that the Democratic Party has gone to great lengths to suppress the constitutional rights of Americans and their freedom to choose who they want running the country. " . . .
But this is what Joe does, even in 2023: Biden’s Bleak Story About Race in America Is False - WSJ
His warnings of ‘white supremacy’ would suit 1960 Alabama. In 2023 they’re merely demagogic.
" Over a long career Joe Biden has delivered more than a few speeches that will take their place in the annals of cheap demagoguery. But he may have surpassed himself last weekend with his commencement address at Howard University in Washington.
"In keeping with the current tenor of political oratory, it was a low, dispiriting affair, one that aptly captured the low, dispiriting nature of his presidency: acerbic rhetoric from a partisan who demonizes opposition and divides Americans from one another; bottomless self-unawareness from a politician elected president almost accidentally in a moment of crisis, who continues to see himself as some sort of historical savior; cynical cant from a serial fabulist whose distortions are becoming as loathsome as the endless malign fictions of the predecessor he despises and whom he desperately needs as a foil." . . .
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