William Marvel: Trumping Trump

An aspiring lefty columnist assured Sun readers last spring that Joe Biden’s inauguration represented a return to good government. Those skeptical of party dogma might doubt it, as the White House and Congress continue to demonstrate the same old reckless bumbling, dishonest theatrics, and attention to factional interest.

We still have a president with a feeble grasp of reality, but whereas his predecessor always “lied,” Biden merely “misspeaks.” Biden promised Americans “you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccines,” and Politifact gauged the remark “half true,” despite acknowledging that thousands of breakthrough infections had already occurred. When Donald Trump asserted that there were “no guns whatsoever” among the Capitol Hill rioters, Politifact found police reports of three armed men apprehended there, unequivocally labeling Trump’s claim “false.”