Larry Kudlow examines numerous lies pontificated by the Biden-Harris administration.
More lies and slander from Biden-Harris. That’s what “The Riff” is about.
Out of respect for the office of president – and I have served two – it gives me no pleasure to make this case: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have consistently lied more than any administration I can think of.
In recent years I have tried to describe this phenomenon as cognitive dissonance or “untruthfulness.” But the reality is that they continue to lie.
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Just yesterday, for example, President Biden and his press secretary tried to come out with the lie “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
The press office tried to confuse the quote by inserting an apostrophe after supporters, to suggest it was referring only to a comedian, rather than the 80 million-odd people who voted for Donald Trump.
But you can’t get away with lies like this in the information age.
Official White House stenographers immediately objected to the false edition of the official transcript which, at some point, will make its way to the National Archives. The supervisor of stenographers called it “a violation of protocol and a despoliation of the integrity of the transcription between the stenography and press offices.”
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Well, I would say it’s basically a stripping of Mr. Biden’s integrity. Here it is again.
The other big lie yesterday came from billionaire Mark Cuban surrogate Kamala, who said, “You never see Trump in the company of strong, intelligent women, ever” – a stupid lie from Cuban, but so far neither Biden nor Harris disagreed with him.
You know who doesn’t agree with him? Sarah Sanders, Susie Wiles, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Brooke Rollins, Mercy Schlapp, Linda McMahon, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, Judith Pond Kudlow and an endless list of strong, intelligent women working with Trump that would be too long for this riff .
But let’s move on to today’s dismal jobs report, the worst in three years, where private sector jobs fell by 102,000, and in the last two months were revised down by 112,000 (remember the previous evaporation of 818,000 jobs?).
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The only real increases came from 91,000 government and related jobs. There are 13 million unemployed or underemployed and, over the past twelve months, native-born workers have lost nearly 800,000 jobs while foreign-born workers have gained over a million.
And, while manufacturing jobs continue to decline, the ISM manufacturing index remains in recession.
All of this brings to mind another lie, that 16 million jobs were created during the Biden-Harris administration. Kamala has said it hundreds of times, but it’s not true.
By eliminating Covid recovery jobs, 6.7 million were created, about the same number as the Trump administration pre-Covid.
A related lie is that they created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. But, excluding the rebound effect, that’s only 93,000, far fewer than Trump’s 414,000 manufacturing jobs.
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In the information age you can’t lie about these numbers. Everyone has access to the same government statistics.
And this brings to mind the lie that when Biden-Harris took power in 2021, they inherited a “faltering,” depression-like economy. Simply false.
Trump has given them a V-shaped recovery from COVID. In the third quarter of 2020, the economy recovered 35%, followed by 4.5% in the fourth quarter and 5.5% in the first quarter of 2021 .
Then Biden-Harris spread another lie: claiming they inherited a high inflation rate.
Completely false. Trump announced an inflation rate of 1.4%.
Biden-Harris repeatedly argued that they were reducing the federal budget deficit. They repeated this case again and again.
But that’s another lie, with budget deficits actually amounting to $2 trillion as far as the eye can see, according to the CBO’s baseline scenario.
Again, why lie when ordinary people can log into their computers and get the real numbers?
Then they lied that billionaires only pay an 8% tax rate, but based it on a law to tax unrealized capital gains that was never actually passed by Congress.
Beyond the economy, Kamala continues to say Trump will ban abortion nationwide.
But this is a lie. Trump has rejected this idea at every opportunity, saying it is best handled by the states under the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
So, Kamala argues that Trump would limit access to birth control and IVF. And that too is completely false, as Trump has claimed at almost every campaign stop.
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Then there are Kamala’s desperate lies.
Trump is a fascist. He is Hitler. It’s racist. He was a Russian agent. He’s a bigot, sexist and so on.
This is all complete nonsense.
Former OMB director and Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wrote that, in all his time with Trump, he never heard anything about Hitler.
I have attended hundreds of meetings in the Oval Office and elsewhere, and I have never heard anything about Hitler.
The whole “threat to democracy” thing that Kamala keeps pushing is an old tired argument that has no basis in reality.
Remember, it was the Biden-Harris Justice Department that weaponized the law against Trump and tried to throw him in prison for 750 years. Everything was unsuccessful on appeal.
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Kamala talks trash and defamation to avoid talking about her failure on issues related to high prices, falling real wages, affordability crisis for homes and cars, and daily necessities. And, of course, the massive border crisis and the crime wave that followed. And the world is on fire in Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Middle East.
Kamala broke it. Mr. Trump intends to fix the problem.
But the wave of lies from President Biden and Vice President Harris shows a massive character flaw that, from day one, has undermined their credibility and voters’ trust.
There are four days left until the elections. And this is “The Riff”.
This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary in the November 1, 2024 edition of “Kudlow.”