On Thursday, June 27th of this year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump participated in a presidential debate that not only changed the fate of the country, but exposed the lie of this century, namely that octogenarian Biden was fit as fiddle.

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With natural surprise, the United States looked at its sitting president, his face almost expressionless on his pale face, barely able to locate the words. And at that point, years of lies about Grandpa Joe’s intellectual aptitude completely collapsed.

There had been signs of Biden’s decline, even though he was hidden as much as possible. But we were assured by the White House that behind closed doors Joe had the stamina of a 20-year-old and recited Aquinas’ proofs of God in Latin while doing jumping jacks.

On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will sit right between Richard Nixon’s “I’m a criminal” and Bill Clinton’s “I didn’t have sex with that woman. ” 

Back in February, after Joe Biden told a story about how had recently talked to French President Francois Mitterand, who, um, died in 1996, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden’s fitness. Here is the exchange:

“I’m not even going to go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” KJP said.

“Why is this a rabbit hole?!” -Doocy asked.

“You saw the president in Vegas, in California,” Jean-Pierre replied. “You’ve seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there.”

They have left Biden there.

Thus, not only does Jean-Pierre lie about Biden’s intellectual state, but he essentially accuses anyone who dares to question him of being a conspiracy theorist wearing an aluminum hat.

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Even when Mumbly Joe filmed an episode or two, the White House told us that those videos were “cheap fakes,” even though they hadn’t been manipulated at all.  

On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will be right up there between Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” 

However, in criticizing the White House’s blatant triple-deal regarding Biden’s ability to serve, the geniuses at PolitiFact say the main lie is that Trump claims that migrants in Springfield eat pets.

First, we literally don’t know if reports about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio are lies. In September I traveled to Springfield and talked to other people who had heard about and believed in the practice of pet eating.

Even if those stories are false, the purpose of highlighting them as Trump did is to draw attention to the very genuine crisis that this network has caused by settling 15,000 immigrants in the small city of 60,000 souls in just 2 years.

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I have heard directly from citizens about the devastation caused, overcrowded schools, rising rents, and threatened public safety. Even if Trump had been given the main points about pets, he was at least making something very real.

On the contrary, the pernicious lies that hid the true and decrepit state of the guy who was intended to run the country surely served no one’s interests, neither Biden himself nor his band of mendacious henchmen.

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Politico would say that Trump was engaging in harmful and racist attacks against immigrants by highlighting the plight of Springfield natives, but in Springfield I discovered no racism or any risks to immigrants.

What I did find was raw anger at the Biden administration and local government who the people think threw their beloved city under the bus.

In the end, Joe Biden’s lie of the century blew up in his face, leaving him limping as a disgraced president.

Meanwhile, Trump, fresh off his convincing victory in November, can finally help the desperate citizens of Springfield, whether that means rescuing stuffed animals or not.

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Sorry Politifact, a year from now no one will know the dogs and cats of Springfield, but a hundred years from now everyone will know the president who wasn’t there in their history books.

And sadly, for Joseph Robinette Biden, the 46th president of the United States, this lie of the century will be his sad and enduring legacy.

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David Marcus is a West Virginia-based columnist and the author of “Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation. “

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