If you watched President Joe Biden’s first live news conference — 65 days after he took office — you probably want that hour back. The clearly elderly commander-in-chief, elected at an age when millions are two steps away from a nursing home, said nothing newsworthy.
He bragged that he is responsible for delivering 100 million coronavirus vaccines to Americans by Day 58 of his regime. Not news.
He admitted that he had kids in cages at the border, a charge he and his leftist backers had leveled against Trump and chastised him for, but that he would free them. Not news.
And he lied about Republican voter laws. Not news.
Even the media’s groveling, lickspittle performance wasn’t news. It was the usual. Notably absent from the press conference were the rude, impertinent questions the media routinely asked Trump.
It’s Not My Fault
After answering a laughably soft pitch from The Associated Press with the humble claim, “I’ve been hired to solve problems to solve problems, not create division.” Biden fielded this one from Yamiche Alcindor, a “reporter” for the leftist, taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio:
You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now. This isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you, that got you elected as a moral, decent man, is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and entrusting you with unaccompanied minors. How do you resolve that tension and how are you choosing which families can stay in, which can go?
Biden allowed that he is, indeed, flattered. But he disputed the premise of the question, even though illegals themselves agree and his own officials admit that his imprudent promises of amnesty and open-borders have caused the Biden Rush to the border. “Well, look, I guess I should be flattered. People are coming because I’m the nice guy … that I’m a decent man,” Biden said. “Because Biden’s a good guy.”
But no, that isn’t what caused such a surge that border agents collared almost 200,000 illegals from January 1 through February 28, Biden claimed.
It was the weather, and problems back home:
The reason they’re coming is that it’s the time they can travel with the least likelihood of dying on the way because of the heat in the desert.… They’re coming because of the circumstances in country.
Biden did get snippy when an NBC reporter pressed him on the kids he has in cages on the borders.
Question: You mentioned circumstances that must be horrific. The Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, Texas, I was there, is at 1556% capacity right now with mostly unaccompanied minors. There are kids that are sleeping on floors. They are packed into these pods. I’ve spoken to lawyers who say that some of these children have not seen the sun in days.… What is your reaction to these images that have come out from that particular facility? Is what’s happening inside acceptable to you and when is this going to be fixed?
Biden: Uh, that’s a serious question, right? Is it acceptable me. Come on.
Republicans Are Sick
Biden attacked the GOP, of course. They “are going to have to determine whether or not we want to work together, or … to just divide the country, continue the politics of division,” he said. Translation: If you don’t go along with his radical leftist agenda, you’re “divisive.”
Answering the ridiculous claim that the GOP state legislatures are trying to “restrict voting,” which might mean “your party is going to lose seats and possibly lose control of the House and the Senate in 2022,” Biden called Republicans “sick” and lied about sound legislation to stop vote fraud:
What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick, deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people, standing in line waiting to vote, deciding that you’re gonna end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work, deciding that there will be no absentee ballots under the most rigid circumstances.… The Republican voters I know find his despicable.
That ridiculous claim that polls close at 5 p.m. “when working people are just getting off work” and “no absentee ballots under the most rigid circumstances” went unchallenged.
A recent, lengthy survey story in the Washington Post reported that such reform legislation would “limit mail, early in-person and Election Day voting with such constraints as stricter ID requirements, limited hours or narrower eligibility to vote absentee,” and stop corrupt ballot harvesting.
A measure in Georgia would stop “line-warming,” as the Post reported, “such as passing out water and blankets to voters standing in long lines,” because it encourages illegal campaigning if the line-warmers are pushing their candidates.
The Post did not report a single election reform bill that polls, which open at dawn or 7 a.m., will close at 5 p.m., or almost stop absentee balloting altogether, as Biden said. Some measures would restrict absentee balloting to voters who need it.
Polls are generally open at least 12 hours.
