If you’ve paid any attention to Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. during his 45 years of desiccated public service, you weren’t suprised that he launched his 2020 presidential campaign with a huge load of malarkey. He’s Biden, so of course he lies. He told a real howler about President Trump’s reaction to the 2017 murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, and Biden’s enablers in the media let him get away with it because they hate a lie unless it comes from a Democrat. Trump never said Nazis and white nationalists are “fine people,” and in fact he explicitly condemned them. He was talking about people who respect Robert E. Lee as a historical figure and don’t want to tear down statues of him. Personally, I couldn’t care less if you melted down every Robert E. Lee statue ever made, but I understand the argument. Recognizing Lee’s place in history isn’t an endorsement of slavery. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” and all that.

I knew Biden was lying, but I didn’t realize he was also being a huge hypocrite. He’s done more to restore Robert E. Lee’s reputation than any other 2020 candidate.

Mike Brest, Daily Caller:

Former Vice President Joe Biden was a part of the 94th Congress that voted to restore Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship over 100 years after his death, and yet Biden attacked President Donald Trump’s support of the general in his campaign announcement video earlier this week…

While many have began criticizing the dead former Confederate leader, in 1975 the Senate, which included freshman Democratic Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, unanimously approved the reinstatement of General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship to the U.S….

Independent Virginia Sen. Harry F. Byrd spearheaded the push for reinstating Lee’s citizenship posthumously, and it passed through both chambers after the House, voting 407 to 10 in favor of the reinstatement on July 23, 1975.

The media and other Democrats are screaming at Trump for saying Robert E. Lee deserves to be remembered as a military tactician. But at least Trump never helped restore Lee’s U.S. citizenship.

A Republican president freed the slaves. A Democrat now running for president stood up for the man who fought to keep those slaves in chains.

Now it’s up to Biden to prove he isn’t a racist. He has a history of saying racist stuff, and now it turns out his voting record backs up that suspicion. Now he’s responsible for proving a negative. We should assume he loves Robert E. Lee, until he shows us otherwise. That’s how this works. Those are the rules.

Not much fun, eh, libs?

(Hat tip: Jazz Shaw)