The One Big Lie I Hope Joe Biden Is Telling

When It Comes to “Unity” and “Bipartisanship” With Republicans, President Biden Should Be All Talk and No Action

Thirty thousand five hundred seventy three . . .

No, it’s not close to the number of minutes in the song “Seasons of Love,” from the opening of the musical Rent. But it is the number of false or misleading claims the Washington Post calculated that Donald Trump made during his American Carnage-creating four years as President. As most of us understood — at least those of us who still believe in truth and facts — the words “false” and “misleading” are media-friendly euphemisms for LIES.

Of course, 30,573 pretty much just covers the lies Trump told in his tweets, rallies, press conferences, media interviews, and the 2020 Presidential debates. According to The Post, nearly half of them emanated from his fevered brain during his final desperate year, when a pandemic, hundreds of thousands of deaths, a cratering economy, and a lost Presidential election by seven million votes engendered a level of pathological lying fury unprecedented in recorded human history. We can only imagine how long Trump’s nose grew during his masturbatory mendaciousness among White House aides, Congressional Republicans, family members, lawyers, and fellow…