President Joe Biden went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Wednesday night — his first one-on-one interview since February — to air some grievances with the nation he’s tasked with leading.
Kimmel asked why no real action has been taken on gun violence. Biden’s answer? “Intimidation by the NRA.”
His party controls the executive branch and Congress — why is he crying about the National Rifle Association? It’s his job, as the leader of the free world, to put on his big-boy pants and go after his policy objectives.
Indeed: why not use executive orders on the issue, as Kimmel suggested?
Ah, that’s because Biden “doesn’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of his constitutional authority.” And because doing what Republicans do puts “our democracy in jeopardy.”
The only trouble being that Biden has already beaten Trump’s annual average of such orders issued, a year in — by almost 22%. An obvious clumsy lie, meant to deflect responsibility. (He also “joked” about sending his political opponents to jail in almost the same breath.)