With the presidential campaigns and President Biden’s historic, last-minute pullout, 2024 was quite a year — for fibs, lies, gaslighting and truly wacky statements, that is.Here are our picks for the absolute worst of them.— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board #1 “[Biden’s] sharp as a tack.”— Countless media and lefties throughout the yearWe say: President Biden himself proved that beyond false during his debate with Donald Trump.
Turns out he was so “sharp” that his own party forced him to quit the race.#2“She wasn’t the border czar.”— ABC’s Jon Karl, Aug.11We say: Funny.
Just a year earlier, Karl was explaining that Biden “put Kamala Harris in, uh, playing a critical role in terms of trying to stop the flow of migrants across the border.” #3“We’ve seen grocery prices come down over the past year or more.”— WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Aug.30We say: If Jean-Pierre saw prices falling, she must’ve been standing on her head — because they actually went up.
Faster than in decades.#4“Those [pro-Hamas protesters] down the street, they have a point.”— President Biden at the Democratic convention, Aug.19We say: Uh, no.
Pro-terror protesters are deranged, morally abhorrent goons.And Biden’s remark was outrageous.#5“We have .
.. young black kids growing up in The Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”— Gov.
Hochul, May 6We say: As The Post’s Adam B.Coleman noted at the time, this wasn’t a gaffe but “a window into the mindset of many mainstream elitist Democrats” — even if the gov later took back her idiotic slur.#6“Kamala Harris is defying the laws of the political universe.”— Politico, Aug.
13We say: Hmm: The November results showed she wasn’t so much defying political reality as being shielded by reality-denying media. #7“Precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country..
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People violate laws anytime they want.”— Pa.Democratic ...