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What did Shakespeare say, “To thine own self be true …” Where does disrespect for truth stop? How have we a presidential candidate who ducks interviews, questions, blames others, tells whoppers – now saying she never pushed tax-funded transgender operations for illegals and prisoners, yet did?
When we were just forced to listen to Joe Biden, saying he was Polish, Hispanic, Greek, Jewish, Puerto Rican, Irish, Black, and so many ethnicities there was an “ethnicity tracker” for him by week, it was almost funny.
When Biden pretended to be people he was not, borrowing speeches from foreign leaders like Britain’s Labor leader Neil Kinnock, claiming Kinnick’s relatives as his own, it was absurd to the point of comic relief, and – back when truth meant something – cost him his 1988 run for president.
Recently, when Biden began slipping, artificially propped by his wife Jill, co-plotter Harris, and go-along-to-get-along Democrat governors, like Janet Mills of Maine, Gavin Newsom of California, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, they all wore egg – more when Biden was forced to resign, a sad spectacle at their mock convention.
So catchy was this new brand of Democrat, at ease with stretching the truth, that Maine’s Janet Mills took it one step further, implying she had met the president in July – a press release now taken down – fawning over his “vigor,” this “excellent leader,” giving him her support. Days later, she was all Harris.
But all this is now water under the proverbial bridge, child’s play by contrast to the Harris strategy –make it up, shake it up, each fib bigger, and keep rolling. We could talk about her first and last visit to the border, and her claim to have been “last in the room” for the Afghanistan travesty, but let’s talk interviews.
In the Fox interview, Harris ducked issues, blamed the government’s failures and hers – to the extent she was plugged into White House decisions – on Republicans, Donald Trump in particular, the media, and finally the American people, since they do not “get it.” That’s your responsibility.
But one issue – beyond immigration, the economy, mindboggling missteps in foreign policy – stood out, a symbol of untruth, untrustworthiness, intransigence, asserting things true are not true, and vice versa.
Yes, she insists the border is safe, crime is down, economic policies are great, inflation, taxes, and interest are better, attacks on women by illegals are not her fault, renewables top oil, China our friend, Iran sure to be dissuaded from nukes with more money, and Israel an ally, even as weapons are withheld.
All this would be puff and untruth enough, but then she denies spending taxpayer money for prisoners to change genders, a policy she had the balderdash to blame on Trump.
The gall, the insult to public intelligence, the stupidity of this kind of assertion, a bold statement of untruth, is just … disturbing. From multiple sources, truth is readily findable. She not only asserted illegals in detention were entitled but as a California prosecutor, pushed that a murderer on death row be granted taxpayer-funded gender-changing surgery – she pushed for it.
The case involved a brutal murderer, sentenced to death in 2009 for murders in 2004, who claimed to be a woman while a man, and not unlike men who have used the claim to secure a transfer to a women’s prisons – notoriously less security – which then ended up in rapes.
So, where does one begin? Call this the quintessential Harris position – one that made no sense from the get-go, was advocated strongly when that suit, was reversed, then denied reversing, and now blames on Trump. What else did Shakespeare say? “Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
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).
