Don’t Believe Your Own Eyes: Biden’s Re-Election Hopes Hinge On Convincing Americans To Ignore Reality OAN’s Daniel Baldwin June 20, 2024
The video of Biden wandering away from Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni was not edited. The video of former President Barack Obama having to lead Biden off the stage at a fundraiser was not edited. Yet, Jean Pierre, and by extension; the White House told the American people to not trust their own eyes.
“Instead of talking about the president’s performance in office, and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country, we’re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos,” Jean Pierre said. “And it is, again, done in bad faith.”
There you have it. The Biden re-election team’s motto might as well be, “Who are you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?”
This is a jarring instruction. 80% of the information the human brain absorbs from the environment comes from the eyes. When more than two thousand participants were polled, 61% agreed sight was the one sense they could not surrender.
But this has been the Biden strategy from the start: convince the American public to ignore what they are seeing. In other words, ignore reality.
Look at the economy for starters. Prices are up nearly 20% since the inception of the Biden presidency. The median home price has reached $396,000 – a 45.4% increase in just four years. Gasoline is up more than 50%. Energy costs and eggs are each up more than 40%.
Yet Biden, and his allies in the corporate press, have repeatedly boasted that the economy is roaring for the average American.
“They have the money to spend,” Biden told CNN in May. Additionally, the White House has consistently argued that prices are coming down under the Biden administration.
The Wall Street Journal reported that net worth, adjusted for inflation, was up just 0.7% through Biden’s first three years. But it was up 16% through Trump’s three years.
But Biden, again, is telling the American people to not believe their own eyes.
This mantra extends to Biden’s handling of the U.S. Southern border.
“Two weeks ago, I did what Republicans in Congress refused to do: I took action to secure our border,” Biden said this past week.
Instead, at the press conference Biden spoke, he unveiled an immigration policy that would provide a pathway to citizenship for more than 500,000 illegal aliens. Under Biden’s watch, more than ten million illegal aliens have entered the country. Innocent young women such as Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, and Rachel Morin have lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens. Border patrol agents have apprehended a total of 367 migrants at both the Southern and Northern borders between the fiscal years of 2021 and 2024 whose names have appeared on the terror watch list. This marks a 2,521% increase from the 14 suspected terrorists caught under the Trump Administration.
Biden also enjoys projecting himself as the official defender of democracy from what he calls extreme MAGA Republicans.
“American democracy only works only if we choose to respect the rule of law and the institutions that were set up in this chamber behind me,” Biden said in Philadelphia in 2022.
Yet Biden’s own Department of Justice, and many other Democrat legal allies, launched an assault that broke 250 years of American precedent: lawfare targeting his top political opponent.
In September 2022, New York AG Letitia James, who campaigned on ‘getting Trump,’ filed a lawsuit seeking to ruin Trump’s business empire. In August 2022, Biden’s DOJ approved an FBI raid on Trump’s personal residence regarding classified documents. In March 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg bootstrapped two expired misdemeanors into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records against Trump. In June 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Biden’s DOJ, indicted Trump on 40 felony counts in the classified documents case. In August 2023, Smith indicted Trump again over allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election.
These lawsuits allowed the Biden campaign to release an advertisement that labels Trump a “convicted criminal” just months before the November election. The lawsuits allowed the Biden campaign to explicitly say Trump has been “convicted of 34 felonies” and that he “committed financial fraud.”
Again, these lawsuits from Biden’s DOJ and Biden allies violated 250 years of American legal precedent. Does that sound like Biden, in his own words, respecting the rule of law to defend democracy?
But then again, the Biden campaign has very little to stand on. Joe Biden’s record is no match for Trump’s.
The Pew Research Center found that only 23% of Americans believe the country’s economic conditions are excellent or good.
A YouGov poll found that 62% of registered voters support the government starting a mass deportation program to remove all illegal aliens. An ABC/Ipsos poll revealed that Biden’s advantage among ‘defending democracy’ has been completely wiped out. That is why the latest Emerson College state poll shows Trump ahead in all six swing states, and tied in Minnesota.
Much to Biden’s chagrin, it’s clear Americans are trusting, and will continue to, trust their own eyes.
