On Monday, President Joe Biden peddled a fake story about his trip to ground zero in New York City the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks 22 years ago.
During an anniversary speech to members of the military, first responders and their families in Anchorage, Alaska, Biden declared, āGround zero in New York, I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell, it looked so devastating because of the way you could ā where ā from where you could stand.ā
Biden, however, was not standing at ground zero or anywhere else in New York City on that day.
As Fox News noted, he was in Washington on Sept. 12, 2001. A floor speech and other Senate business account for his whereabouts for most of the day.
In a surprising twist, conservative media werenāt the only ones calling out the president for his latest prevarication.
Even fact-checkers at left-leaning organizations and outlets reported that his story was false.
āBiden would not visit ground zero for the first time until a week later, on Sept. 20, 2001, when, according to The Associated Press, he joined a delegation of senators who traveled by train from Washington to New York to see the devastation with their own eyes,ā Snopes said.
PolitiFact also labeled his story as false, while FactCheck.org said that Biden āwrongly claims to Have Visited New York City a Day After 9/11.ā
CNN said it asked the White House about his 9/11 story and received this email comment āon condition of anonymityā: āThe President first visited the World Trade Center nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of a bipartisan delegation from the Senate.ā
In its Fact check, CNN not only said the presidentās claim was false but also detailed numerous other instances when he made up or altered stories.
These include making up stories about his family, falsely claiming to have visited a bridge collapse, falsely claiming to have visited a Pittsburgh synagogue after a deadly shooting, and saying he āused to drive an 18-wheeler.ā
Ludicrously, Biden even claimed to have been arrested during a civil rights protest, which seemsunlikely.
During the presidential campaign, he also told anyone in Iowa who would listen a fictitious story about a conductor telling him he had traveled a million miles on Amtrak.
This is just a small sample of the false stories that Biden has told as a senator, vice president, candidate and president.
Aside from the proven lies, he has told stories that even fact-checkers at leftist outlets such as The Washington Post say donāt āadd up.ā
And this week the president told such a blatant whopper that many of them could not ignore it.
Is Biden losing touch with reality due to his age? Or are his current fabrications a continuation of the blithe lies and deceptions that defined his earlier presidential campaigns?
The Daily Wireās Michael Knowles had a different take.
āItās not that he knows that he is lying, and itās also not that he is totally bought into the lie that he actually believes that itās true,ā he said Tuesday on his show. āI think thereās a third possibility here, which is that Joe Biden doesnāt care if what he says is true.
āThatās called cynicism. Itās between deceit and senility. There is this place where Joe Biden has lived for his entire political career, and itās cynicism, indifference to the truth.
āPontius Pilate is probably the typical cynic, who, when heās confronted by Christ, who says, āI am the truth,ā Pilate says, āWhat is truth? What is truth? Cāmon thereās no such thing as truth.ā
āI think thatās where Joe Biden is. He just doesnāt, heāll just say whatever sounds good. And maybe he believes it, maybe he doesnāt ā I think he just doesnāt really care.ā
No matter whether heās telling untruths because heās deceitful, heās deluded or he just doesnāt care, itās not a good sign for our country to be led by such a man.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.