On Thursday, Breitbart’s Joel Pollak asked former Vice President about a lie he’s been peddling – namely that President Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people” during his speech in the aftermath of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.
Biden began his remarks at the “Political Soapbox” at the Iowa State Fair by repeating the claim that Trump had called neo-Nazis “very fine people”: “Charlottesville — that hate and that venom that we saw, and then the president saying, when asked about the groups … as well as the young woman, when she was killed, he said there were very fine people in both groups. Very fine people. No president, sitting president has ever said something like that. And the only thing that’s happened is it’s gotten worse.” –Breitbart
When asked by Pollak “Mr. Vice President, are you aware that you’re misquoting Donald Trump in Charlottesville? He never called neo-Nazis very fine people?” Biden angrily replied “No, he called all those folks who walked out of that, neo-Nazis shouting hate. Their veins bulging.”
“But he specifically said he was condemning them,” replied Pollak, to which Biden erupted “No he did not. He said he walked out and he said it. He said there were very fine people in both groups. They were chanting anti-Semitic slogans and carrying flags.”
Enter Biden spokesman, Bill Russo – who tweeted pure disinformation trying to prove Breitbart wrong, with a partial transcript of Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
https://twitter.com/BillR/status/1159555149167255552
What Russo failed to include was what Trump said shortly after – which Breitbart‘s called him out for over Twitter for omitting the part where Trump says “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.“
After his public shaming, Russo doubled down, tweeting “Ok so exactly which of the torch-wielding, Nazi-saluting fanatics chanting “Jews will not replace us” fit your gaslighting narrative?”
https://twitter.com/BillR/status/1159592590762827777
The Twitterverse was not kind to Bill:
Biden came out for preferring “facts over truth.”
He’s right, he does.
A fact is a tiny truth out of context.
Context puts together lots of facts.
Biden, and Russo his spokesman, don’t want their supporters to know context.
It’s lawyerly parsing, not truth.
But its not outright lying either.
And Biden is good with that.
He’d make a lousy president.
The media have become complete liars and wh*res for the DNC
@Nan G: Biden also says he believes all poor people are some color other than white.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-poor-kids-just-as-bright-as-white-kids-in-latest-gaffe?fbclid=IwAR36zkUy2fdBTLvUk2CtakWWMjjUE_4JxvAJ9lSGdzuW_n3PJYdFHPjvTC0
But, this has been Biden his entire political life. And Obama picked him for the “wisdom” half of his ticket.
I wish more media would call these liars out every time they lie. For, the INTENT of the lie is to foment hatred of Trump that would not be there otherwise. He’s NOT racist, so the left has to fabricate evidence to MAKE him racist in order to harness the visceral hatred their followers possess. If the media would call out lies (if they actually CARED about truth and honesty), there would be far less of this garbage. As it is, garbage is what we get the most of.