Joe Biden is an asshole

The president can’t stop lying about his dead son

We all know that President Joe Biden is a colossal liar. Not only is this a prerequisite for office on both sides of the aisle, Biden has made a literal career out of lying his way through every situation imaginable.

Whether it be rebranding economic collapse as “Bidenomics” job creation, repeating the socialist talking point that the wealthy “don’t pay their fair share,” or claiming that he was never involved in Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine (he obviously was), it’s hard to think of a time when Biden actually told the truth.

But in recent years, he’s gone one step further: he’s lying about his dead son for political gain.

He’s crossed the line from liar to asshole.

In August 2013, Biden’s eldest son Beau was diagnosed with brain cancer, and passed away at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on May 30, 2015, at the age of 46.

Tragic? Of course. But for Biden, this tragedy is a political opportunity. So much so that in 2019, Politico even celebrated grief as “Biden’s superpower”:

There is no person in American politics today whose life has been so shaped by loss and grief. The long arc of Biden’s career is all but bracketed by tragedy. In 1972, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident; in 2015, one of his two sons who had survived the crash died of a rare strain of brain cancer. These wretched tentpoles are not only tragedies the 76-year-old Biden has had to endure. They influenced major decisions he made about his political career—first, his priorities in the Senate; later, his decision to opt out of the presidential election of 2016. And they defined him as a person as well, according to longtime friends, former aides and veteran politicos in his home state of Delaware. They made him more relatable, more authentic, more empathetic.

More relatable, more authentic, more empathetic? Hardly.

Not only has Biden used the death of Beau, for the last several years, he has even reinvented the death for political gain.

“My son was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq,” Biden told U.S. Marines earlier this year.

“Just imagine, I mean it sincerely, I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said.

Er…nope.