I can still remember all the insane predictions that the left made about Donald Trump before the 2016 election. According to them, women would become second-class citizens, he would open up concentration camps for LGBTQ Americans, and, of course, minorities would lose all their rights. It was that kind of fearmongering that the radical left relied upon to scare people into voting.
Of course, none of those things happened, but that's beside the point. When Trump was in office, even though the horrors they predicted never came true, they tried to pin all sorts of things on him. In light of what's happening today, I can't help but appreciate the irony that the mainstream media tried to blame a rise in antisemitism in America on Trump.
"Trump's an antisemite!" they claimed, "so obviously he's to blame." It was ironic because not only is Trump a steadfast supporter of Israel, but his son-in-law Jared Kushner is Jewish, and his daughter Ivanka is a converted Jew. The attacks never made sense, but this is the kind of stuff the left relies on. Leftists similarly blamed Trump for the death of George Floyd. In short, if something bad happened under Trump, it was his fault.
Joe Biden joined in on this as well.
"Remember: every example of violence Donald Trump decries has happened on his watch," Biden said in a post on Twitter (now known as X) in August 2020, in the middle of the BLM riots. "Under his leadership. During his presidency."
Of course, this old tweet is now coming back to haunt him, because, by his own standard, he is culpable for the antisemitic violence that has erupted nationwide on his watch.
"It's now the year 2024, three full years into Joe Biden's presidency and Jewish students are being blocked from their college campuses, and being told to stay home and remote learn," conservative political commentator Stephen Miller recently posted on X.
"Is this the soul of the nation healed?"
"Joe Biden has looked the other way as Democrat foot soldiers hijack universities across America," Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe told Fox News Digital. "He's more concerned about winning votes in Dearborn, Michigan, than condemning the 20-year-olds cheering for intifada."
Former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer told Fox News Digital that President Biden "would be well served by reading his old tweets and taking action."
"There are antisemitic uprisings on campuses across the country, and all Joe Biden can do is passively sit there and hope they go away," Fleischer said. "He’s shown no leadership, despite this being far worse than the two-day Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville."
Biden gave a rather gutless speech on Thursday, trying to balance his support for free speech while also making a feeble, generic condemnation of vandalism, trespassing, and intimidation. However, he curiously didn't accept responsibility for the unrest the way he implied Trump was to blame for the BLM riots of the summer of 2020.
By his own standard, this is on him, and frankly, these anarchists and rioters are the people he's trying desperately to appeal to so that he can save his election. Remember: every example of violence Biden decries has happened on his watch. Under his leadership. During his presidency.
