OPINION:
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Indeed, as the old saying goes, the child is the father of the man, which explains why President Biden learned his modesty from his son Hunter.
Only a crackhead, whore-loving sex tape star who shakes down corrupt foreign governments for millions of dollars, selling access to his lifelong politician father, could be son to the president we have witnessed these past few days. And just when you thought our president could not get any more dishonest, self-serving and delusional in his quest to destroy former President Donald Trump and anyone who supports him.
On Friday, Mr. Biden traveled to Valley Forge to rewrite history and pretend he is some kind of George Washington. Mr. Biden is not worthy to clean George Washington’s wooden teeth.
Mr. Biden has come unglued with hateful rage for American citizens who support his political adversary — a dangerous new low for our country.
Even in the throes of the actual Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln never stooped to attack those who dared not support his political campaigns. On the contrary, after Gettysburg, Lincoln reverentially expressed gratitude to all the soldiers who died in that battle, consecrating the battlefield in ways that he could not.
Trump supporters today, Mr. Biden said, “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
What politician talks like that about American citizens — just because they don’t support him?
Worse, Mr. Biden’s Department of Justice has imprisoned hundreds of his political opponents and this past weekend vowed to imprison even more.
This is the kind of dangerous political demagoguery that inspired Democratic voter James Hodgkinson to shoot six people at a baseball field in an attempt to assassinate as many Republican members of the House of Representatives as he could.
Hoping to ratchet the political rhetoric to even higher religious fervor, The New York Times wondered aloud: “Is Trump Hell?”
In other words, if you are not willing to murder American citizens who are “threat to the very foundations of our republic,” then maybe you would be willing to murder Satan himself.
Mr. Biden was so engorged on vitriol after his trip to Valley Forge that when he returned, he had to be led away from his helicopter on the tarmac in a blind stupor.
Lunatic Liz Cheney, meanwhile, tried reasoning with Trump voters by warning that if they vote for Mr. Trump again, it will be “the last vote you’ll ever cast.”
Well, if that doesn’t inspire people to take up arms, nothing will.
“He won’t leave office,” Ms. Cheney said of Mr. Trump’s impending reelection. “He already tried not to leave office once. So I think there’s a lot of living in a fantasy world that’s going on with Republicans telling themselves, ‘Look, we’ll vote for him, it won’t be so bad.’ It may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast. It will be that bad.”
This is coming from someone who has long demonstrated an ability to get people to kill one another.
As if that were not bad enough, Mr. Biden traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, to politicize the horrifying murders of nine African American parishioners at a church nearly a decade ago.
Who desecrates the innocent dead like this? The same person who imprisons his political enemies. And the same person who sells access to public office for millions of dollars.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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