At a time when Biden-Harris have spiked distrust in government (Pew), we learn two more lies were just told, one on the economy, one on crime, both eroding public distrust. Harris must go.
Put aside what even the Supreme Court sees as politically motivated lawsuits, overseen by a bitter Attorney General who conveniently forgot constitutional law (or handed application of due process, equal protection, free speech, rights to protest, safety in homes and papers, parental rights), and statutes on election interference, document storage, and federal bribery laws.
Leave to one side non-application of pivotal federal laws – enforcing the US border, deterring drug and sex trafficking, preserving legal elections, protecting girls, free markets, and employment rights; forget mandates that fired people for not taking an untested MRNA shot now tied to health issues.
Focus on just two issues – data on the economy and data on crime, top issues in this presidential campaign, each tied to White House policies, from overspending to illegal immigration.
Never has the federal government, with approval from the top, reported job data that overstated job creation – or understated job loss – by nearly one million jobs, a gut punch for everyday Americans.
Yet that is what happened six weeks ago when the Harris and Biden crowd were caught having claimed the creation of 813,000 jobs that were never created; turns out, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had to walk back claims of major job creation, a political black eye.
At the time, even CNN admitted this was a problem for Harris, statistically significant – suggesting an economy struggling rather than soaring – and another integrity issue, more problems with the truth.
Then last week we learned what Republicans have been saying for months, and what average Americans have been feeling for years, was true. The FBI crime data was wrong and understated the reality. Rather than a reduction in crime nationwide, Biden-Harris ran it up by more than four percent.
Called a “big jump in violence” and “shocking” revelation by crime experts, this update reveals what many knew: Biden-Harris did not collect crime from major Democrat cities. After being called out and forced to “revise” the national crime data – still incomplete – violence is, in fact, way up.
So, again on a major election issue, the Biden-Harris team appears to have been lying, or misstating facts, or misremembering what matters to average Americans to guard their flank.
As illegal immigrants, viewed as potential Democrat voters, were shipped to every state, drug traffickers radiated violence and overdoses, and crime soared. We felt it. Biden-Harris lied about it.
Is it surprising that, as of late 2024, only 35 percent of Democrats trust the government to “do the right thing” and only 11 percent of Republicans do, according to the Pew Research Center?
It should not be. The Biden-Harris record is one of overt and covert deception, broken promises on everything from spending, inflation, and taxes to public safety and the border, topped off by what most legal scholars would call a culture of half-truths, public corruption. Result? Harris must go.
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. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
