Joe Biden’s Presidency

by Jim Buckley

The New and Improved, Balanced and Unafraid New York Times

Not really.

I jest.

I am supposing The New York Times jests too.

Last week, I suggested that after reading an interview conducted by former New York Times columnist (2020-2022) Ben Smith, of New York Times Executive Editor Joseph (“Joe”) Kahn in the online publication Semafor, that Trump may have a chance of being treated fairly during his re-election bid.

During the interview, Kahn opined that because “Trump’s not in office [the 2024 election] will probably be fair.”

Was the Executive Editor of The New York Times implying that the 2020 election wasn’t “fair?”

Maybe.

Kahn promised a more balanced approach in The New York Times towards coverage of Mr. Trump, the election, and Mr. Biden. I greeted that as good news indeed.

But wait.

There’s more.

Kahn admitted that “there’s a very good chance, based on our polling and other independent polling, that [Trump] will win that election in a popular vote.”

Whoa.

Trump may (will!) win the presidency via the electoral college and the popular vote?

That would be an accomplishment for the ages.

No question historic, monumental.

A 2024 victory would make President Donald J. Trump the most consequential president since, well, since Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

And, in many ways, that would not only be astonishing but also fitting. Trump was the Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke when he first announced his candidacy. His re-election would spell the beginning of the end of the sordid era of the ascendancy of DEI (Diversity! Equity! Inclusion!) administrators and their soulless rule of all aspects of hiring, firing, advancement, and other aspects of life in the U.S.

Joe Biden’s Presidency

I’m supposing when Joe Biden claims, “the inflation rate was nine percent – nine percent! – when I came to office,” that, much like The New York Times’s supposed segue into objectivity, he’s jesting too.

Biden had been president for a year and a half before we reached that 9% inflation level.

But, hey, but by the end of his second term as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his supporters were still blaming Herbert Hoover for the ongoing Great Depression.

Blaming Donald Trump for 9% inflation a year and a half after he’d left office, is politics as usual for Democrats.

Another of President Biden’s jokes is that he’s “brought inflation down to under four percent.”

All by himself apparently.

Pretty rich really; via an over-spending spree of trillions of dollars, he creates a rapidly rising inflation rate of 9%, then when the Fed steps in and raises interest rates to a level not seen in over forty years, Biden brags about how he’s brought the rate down.

And he’s never called upon to correct the record because everyone with an active cranium knows he’s full of it.

After all, he is a joker.

President Biden also likes to say that the economy was in a death spiral when he arrived and that he not only had brought back the economy but that he had also “created fifteen million jobs… More than any other president in history.”

He’s talking about 15 of the nearly 20 million jobs lost and/or at least put on hold by the Covid lockdowns, which were going to be reclaimed regardless of who was president.

Now, of course, we can pass off these claims as those of an old man with a faulty mind, faltering step, and high opinion of himself that virtually no one else shares.

Unfortunately, too many people who don’t pay attention believe him and that misunderstanding may just buy him another four years in the White House.

So, let’s be careful out there.

The Stormy Daniels Trial

Upon viewing the courtroom activities taking place in Manhattan, it occurs to me that President Trump is being hounded and harassed not by anything he may or may not have done, but by a group of left-wing militants whose goal is/was to bring the president down.

Think about it.

Letitia James was, above all, an “activist” before anything else. And she won her office as Attorney General of the State of New York by campaigning on her ability to “get” President Trump.

Her father was a member of the Black Panthers.

How about Fani Willis?

Her father was also a member of the Black Panthers.

Lastly, Soros-inspired Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

All three of these folks are what I see as part of a broad-ranging left-wing plan to halt the ascendancy of what President Trump represents: Conservative Populism.

Their clumsy and ultimately unprofessional harassment of President Trump is telling. They may succeed – they do have 85% of the Manhattan voting public on their political side – but it no longer looks as promising as it once did. Things seem to be coming undone.

I’ve gone back and forth among various TV station commentary, and it’s been difficult to follow the trial in Manhattan because of the split coverage. If you are a CNN, MSNBC, or mainstream press news watcher, you probably continue to believe that President Trump will be convicted. If you, like me, however, are a Fox News or NewsMax person, then chances are you think he has a real chance of the jury finding him “not guilty.”

After the intense cross-examination of the prosecution’s star witness – convicted felon and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen – I believe we can expect a hung jury at the very least, and perhaps either a Judge Juan Merchan-directed “not guilty” verdict, or an actual jury verdict of “not guilty.” If the jury does vote to convict, this case will be thrown out on the first leg of the appeal process.

But we’ll know more by Monday, or even today (Friday May 17).

If Trump is vindicated, be prepared to party like it’s November 2016.

If he is found “not guilty,” prepare to enjoy the tears shed on MSNBC, ABC-TV’s “The View” and elsewhere.

Whether he’s found “Not Guilty,” or “Guilty as Charged” however, the verdict will not hinder Trump’s chances at a second term, though a solid “Not Guilty” would probably ensure a presidential victory for him.