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Trump camp nails Biden for ‘second biggest lie’ during DNC speech: ‘They’re trying to rewrite history again’

August 20, 2024 | | Print Article

President Biden gave a blusterous speech at the Democratic National Convention late Monday night and engaged in revisionism concerning school closures during the pandemic. In other words, he lied.

“Kamala and I helped states and cities get their schools back open,” he railed during his speech that pretty much no one listened to including Democrats.

After Biden’s egregious fibs during his DNC speech, the Trump campaign pummeled him over it, calling it “The second biggest lie he’s told of the night behind the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax.”

The claim that Biden and Harris did everything they could to reopen schools is demonstrably false and they savagely attacked former President Trump for actually wanting to do it. Now, they are gaslighting everyone to rewrite what occurred. Americans have memories longer than two weeks so that did not work the way that Biden had hoped it would.

When Biden was running for the presidency in 2020, he hammered Trump when he called for every school to be reopened or they could face funding cuts over it. That was definitely not Biden’s take on the issue.

“If you have the ability to have people wear masks and you have teachers able to be in a position where they can teach at a social distance — that, I think is one thing,” the president asserted. “But it costs a lot of money to do that. If you don’t have that capacity, I think it’s too dangerous to open the schools. So it depends.”

A year ago, Reason wrote a piece about Democrats attempting to “whitewash” their position on school closures during the pandemic.

“President-elect Biden vowed in December 2020, if conditionally, that a majority of K-12 public schools would be open within his first 100 days of office. On his first day in office, he quietly downgraded that promise to just K-8 schools. By week three, ‘open’ was reinterpreted to mean ‘at least one day per week,'” Reason reported in 2023.

“There was a practical reason for such expectation-lowering. The administration and its teachers-union allies still wanted one last huge federal payout, in the form of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which (after being passed one month later) directed $122 billion to K-12 schools (on top of the $70 billion in emergency federal school funding those schools had already received), as well as an additional $350 billion to state and local governments, which typically spend about 20 percent of their budgets on pre-collegiate education,” the media outlet continued.

“‘We need a Marshall Plan for our schools,’ urged the school superintendents of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago in a December 2020 Washington Post op-ed. (Only NYC of the three was even half-heartedly open.) The hostage-taking was not subtle; neither was the White House’s timing,” Reason added.

Americans haven’t forgotten what was done to their children and Biden attempting to portray himself as a hero during COVID is utterly shameful.

Reason’s scathing conclusion against the Biden administration during the pandemic was searing, “You can understand why Joe Biden wants to falsely portray himself as a champion of reopening, just as you can see why—of all people—so does Randi Weingarten: Extended school closures, long after the survey data and global experience argued convincingly against them, constituted one of the most egregious public policy failures in modern American history, the aftereffects of which are still massively reshaping American kids, families, education systems, and cities. They are deservedly unpopular, with few people beyond opinion-journalism trolls still attempting to defend them.”

The Biden administration, the CDC, the teachers’ unions, and Dr. Anthony Fauci wreaked havoc on a whole generation of children and now they want Americans to believe they were fighting for the kids. The facts overwhelming tell a different story and the Trump campaign is obviously not going to let them rewrite history without a fight.

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