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August 23, 2023

The Bidens’ Not-So-Excellent Tahoe Adventure

With bad news and scandal all around him, Joe Biden is taking yet another long vacation.

Having limped back to Lake Tahoe after an awful trip to the Maui wildfire disaster zone, Joe Biden and his family are now safely holed up in the privacy of lefty billionaire “environmentalist” Tom Steyer’s $18 million lakeside mansion — whose luxury accommodations are enough to make a FEMA bureaucrat blush.

In case you hadn’t heard, around 1,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency staff have been toughing it out in $1,000-a-night five-star Maui hotels while local residents look for shelter amid the desolation of a devastating wildfire that consumed their homes and just about everything else in the historic town of Lahaina.

Yep, it’s good to be the king — or, in this case, part of his court. At least that’s what we’ve been told.

As for Biden, for all his sleaziness and decrepitude, he too has definitely been living like a king, adding another nine days of downtime to his already impressive all-time presidential vacation record.

Frankly, we can’t blame him for wanting to get away and stay away, with all the bad news swirling around him — from terrible polling numbers to a blown-up plea deal and a sweetheart special counsel appointment for his wastrel son Hunter, and the looming threat of impeachment from congressional Republicans. “It is appalling what we have learned,” said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “It is different than what President Biden told us.”

McCarthy went on to say that if Team Biden continues to stonewall on documents being requested by Oversight Committee Republicans, “We will move forward with an impeachment inquiry when we come back into session.”

Clearly, Biden needed to get away. But before moving into the Steyer mansion, the president and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., took time out of their busy schedules to make a quick stop in Maui, there to inspect the estimated $5 billion in damage done by a wildfire whose death toll has hit 114 and continues to climb.

Biden was also there to do damage control for his callous “no comment” comment of a few days earlier, and there to lend comfort to the beleaguered people of Lahaina, whose homes were burned to the ground. (And, no, climate change wasn’t the cause of it.)

Luckily for local residents, the president came bearing gifts — including a whopping $700 one-time payment to each of the affected households. We’re not sure whether you’ve checked the price of a dozen eggs or a gallon of milk in Maui lately, but that money won’t last long. Nor will it even pay the $900 tab that each American family owes for our $113-billion-and-counting venture in Ukraine.

The consoler-in-chief looked old and tired and out of sorts in Hawaii, perhaps feeling the effects of jet lag and the disruption to his delicate sleep schedule. While there, he petted a rescue dog and made a joke about how hot the ground was, then he tried to find common ground with some of the 4,500 or so residents who’d lost everything. He did so by falsely claiming to have lost his own home years ago due to a lightning strike and subsequent fire.

As happens all too often with Joe Biden, though, the truth didn’t survive his verbal assault. Far from consuming his home, the fire was contained to the kitchen area of his house. This was just the latest in a litany of lies our Mittyesque president has told to make him appear to be someone he’s not. Just as was the case when he told Gold Star families of the 13 American warriors who were senselessly murdered at Kabul Airport’s Abbey Gate that his son Beau had lost his life in Iraq.

To be clear: Finding common ground with one’s constituents is a good thing — a very good thing. But telling bald-faced lies in order to do so is a very bad thing.

Let’s hope the Biden Crime Family enjoys their stay in Lake Tahoe. Because the trouble that now awaits them back in Washington, DC, isn’t going away anytime soon.

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