News – not political but personal – ripped the wires. Joe Biden, after denying the existence of his four-year-old granddaughter Navy, born of a mother whom his son Hunter got pregnant, abandoned, denied, sued, and vilified – admitted the obvious: he has a seventh grandchild. The question was never legal or political, just about honesty and love. He showed neither.
This one fact tells you all you need to know about the man. He is a dishonest, cold heart – so cold he could abstract his granddaughter out of existence, cancel, disown her, did not care.
Joe Biden’s identity is found in many places – a lifetime of blind ambition and unconscionable takedowns in the Senate of good people, from Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to countless other earnest souls. He gladly, glibly nobbled them, thought power was everything.
In 1988, as a candidate, he cravenly stole whole speeches from foreign politicians, including the British Labor leader Neil Kinnock. When caught, he blamed others, denied the obvious, waved his Senate power, and stiff-armed investigators.
Caught plagiarizing in law school, a fact – together with grades – that nearly denied him graduation, he blamed others, denied the obvious, and in 1988 again pretended it did not happen.
Serving as vice president, according to those often with him, such as former CIA Director and Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Joe Biden was not just self-serving, unintelligent, bombastic, and imperious – just confirmed by current staff – but invariably wrong.
More biting, as facts pile up, he was greedy, calculating, and breathtakingly dishonest, to the point of criminality – apparently violating laws such as 18 USC 201 and RICO, to illegally profit from a vast criminal enterprise, taking foreign money from multiple countries for official acts.
As this sinks into the public conscience, washing over people who have wanted to think better of him, imagined him just a bumbling, befuddled Joe, not a crook – we get the grandchild denial.
Beyond mounting evidence of official crookedness, growing in legal and political import, we now see the true nature of this man in one unabashed, cold-hearted act – intentionally inflicting profound emotional distress child and mother, his own grandchild no less.
For a moment, ask yourself: What kind of heartlessness does that require? What coldness possesses someone to do that? What self-serving, truth-denying, upside-down priorities? Where is the love?
Ask yourself, too: If this man is running the country, what does that say about why he does what he does, what he fears, cannot handle, his personal cowardice, lack of concern for real people, and profound selfishness? Then, think harder: If it tells us these things, who else does it tell?
On a basic level, Biden serves a good purpose – reminding us of timeless truths, like the Bible’s “trust not in princes,” and Walter Scott’s caution about “tangled webs” and those who deceive.
As a matter of heart, Joe Biden is a living symbol of the heartlessness we should most wish to avoid in leaders – arrogance, well-cloaked dishonesty, greed, disregard for laws, and lack of heart.
Others may like him, forgive him, and imagine disowning your grandchild is part of what it takes to hold power; if that is the price of power, have none of it. St. Matthew wrote: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these, my brothers, you did it to me.”
When you think about how this administration has increased the load on little souls, it breaks the heart. Their policies confuse, dishearten, embarrass, indulge, diminish, endanger privacy, disown girls’ identities, hurt families, disparage and punish those of faith, and promote drug abuse, alienation, suicide, trafficking, and crime. Do they care?
A few added words from Mathew come to mind: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin…it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” Words worth pondering, no?
Perhaps the best reflection on Joe Biden’s denial of his grandchild comes from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on I cannot believe you.” Then again, many expected nothing less. That is Joe Biden, the man.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
