Commentary

Dateline: Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017, a Neo-Nazi rally.  It’s the story that keeps on giving to this day.  Since then, as candidate and later as President Joe Biden, he has frequently repeated an account of the event as if he were there, as in many of his fabricated tales.  “In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.”  But he wasn’t there.

The event was so shocking, he claims it so motivated him to run for president against President Trump that two years later, on April 25, 2019 he announced his candidacy for president.  Hearing Trump say there were “very fine people on both sides” that day in Charlottesville was “a defining moment.”

“With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it,” Biden said.

Continuing, he spoke of “the forces of hate and violence summoned from the shadows as Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists descended on a historic American city.  With torches in their hands and veins bulging from their necks, he spewed the same antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the 1930s,” he continued as if he were there to witness it.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week on February 9, 2020, Biden was asked about the consequences of a Trump victory, to which he responded, “He’s yet to condemn white supremacy, the Neo-Nazis.  He hasn’t condemned a darn thing.

Not true.  On the day of the incident, Trump said, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides.”  Having spoken to Virginia Governor McAuliffe, he said they agreed that the hate and the division must stop and must stop right now.

Trump drew criticism for saying there were fine people on both sides, referring to those who were there because they felt strongly about the statue of Robert E. Lee – “a great general whether you like it or not,” but left no doubt of his condemnation of the event.

Two days later, Trump referred to the “KKK and Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

On August 14, 2017, he again reiterated his condemnation in the strongest possible terms.”

Then, during a press conference on August 15, 2017, explained his “many sides” comment. “You had the people in that group that were there to protest taking down to them, a very, very important statue, and you had some very bad people in that group.  But you had some very fine people on both sides.”

But Biden Didn’t Stop

On August 12, 2021, now President Biden felt the need to publish a four-year anniversary statement referring to Charlottesville, “where the battle for the soul of America was laid bare for all to see.”  And he again mentioned the “veins bulging” from the rioter’s necks as if he was there to see it.

Yet on November 27, 2023, Deepa Shivaram, noted on NPR’s Morning Edition that after more than six years some residents of Charlottesville were still wondering why he hadn’t visited the town that “made such an impact on him.”

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

Today, it is being reported that “Biden is facing his own Charlottesville moment, as protests are spreading from college campus to campus, but he has been silent in the media as we are reminded about his  remarks about Trump in 2017 and years after.

“Do you condemn the antisemitic protestors,” he was asked. “ I condemn the antisemitic protests,” he said, “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.

“President Biden says there are good people on both sides of October 7,” wrote The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, as Israel has been a lighting rod for the Democrat Party’s progressives support Hamas while condemning the Jews as we supply them with arms.

With that, ponder this statement by a Democrat member of the House of Representatives:

“It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping our country today of all days, as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student-led protests on campuses like Columbia, Yale, Berkeley and many others.”  – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Equally unbelievable was this response to her:

“You know … I learned a long time ago. Listen to that lady.  Listen to that lady.” – President Biden

Be aware that the majority of those “young people shaping our country” are actually aged 25 to 30, providing “leadership,” and not “peaceful student-led” protests, but outsiders-led.

The professionally-printed signs and the expensive tents are evidence of dark money provided by outsiders like Goerge Soros.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.