Joe Biden’s disastrous legacy of crime at home and war abroad is on full display in his final UN speech

In 1980, the Boston Globe put a place-holding headline on an editorial about a speec🌳h by Presꦜident Jimmy Carter. 

“Mush from the wimp,” the headline read — and it appeared in more than 150,000 copies of the paper before editors caugh𝕴t their ♒error and removed it. 

I thought about that headline as I watched Joe Biden൲’s UN speech Tuesday.

The similarities go far beyond another mushy speech from💜 another wimpy president. 

Biಌden now rivals Carter asཧ the worst American president of the modern era — and maybe of all time. 

Both men 🎀were one-term Democrats felled 🌞by inflation and disorder at home.

On the global stage, they pursued policies that too 𝕴often treated American power as a problem rather than a solution, and were rewarded with mayhem and mꦫurderous aggression. 

There are differences, too, with Carter constrained by his faith-based moral imperatives, while Biden’s family got rich by selling his name to foreigners, some of them adversaries. 

But the bottom line is that both were shown the door because most♏ Americans had lost confidence in their ability to lead the nation safely forward. 

Only the details differ. 

Still deep in denial 

To judge by his UN speech, Biden has not yet come to grips with reality.

He dishonestly suggests he voluntarily passed the par꧙ty’s torch to his vice president, declaring that “Some things are more important than staying in power.” 

That was one of several passages designed to weave a positive legacy oꦏut of thin air and rampant failure. 

No sale.

The nation and the world are in far worse shape now than when Biden took office, and had he stayed in the race, he would have lost to Donald Trump in a landslide. 

American♒s are generous and ꧋patient, but not stupid. 

Indeed, the widespread belief that we are now closer than ever to World War I𓃲II captures the truth of Biden’s disastrous term.

Rarely if ever have thin🎀gs gotten so bad so fast. 

As part of his sleight of hand, he used his UN speech🌠 to paint himself as an optimist, and cited the end of our wars in Vietnam and Iraq as proof that “things can get better.” 

Of course they can — ꦛwith the right leadership, which in this case means someone else. 

He tried to sneak Afghanistan into the memory lane mix, saying, “I was determined to end it, and I did,” before saying he thinks “every day” of the 13 service members who died in his chaotic withdrawal. 

As always, he ignores the inconvenient fact that every♏ military leader warned him that the complete and sudden abandonment would be a disaster — and it was. 

So what does he ♛think about when he thinks about those Americans who died because of his arrogant mistake?

Does ꦗhe acknowledge even to himself that he is responsible for their deaths? 

And what about Taliban rule🍸 — does he ever think of the brutality toward dissenters that filled the vacuum he created?

How does he reconcile his actions with the Taliban’s latest barbaric restrictions on women, which require to🅰tal body and face covering ꧅and public silence? 

Then there’s the message the🧸 Afghanistan bugout sent to the world.

Vladimir Putin saw the sudden with🅷drawal as proof that America was in retreat and decided the time was ripe for an invasion of Ukraine. 

A “minor i♏ncursion” wou❀ld be OK, Biden stupidly said. 

Iran smelled the weakness and unleashed theꦆ hell of H🍃amas, Hezbollah and the Houthis on Israel.

Yet, repeating the mistakes ꧅of Barack Obama, Biden continues to reward Iran with sanctions relief and punishes Israel by withholding arms and isolating it on the world stage. 

He, along with many Dems, insists that “Israel has a right to defend🐓 itself” and🌃 then quickly adds a “but” that effectively limits the Jewish state’s defense to its own borders.

Had Israel agreed to his terms for a cease-fire in Gaza, it would soon be facing another armed Hamas and Iran would be pre🍸paring the next round of assaults. 

Although the Israelis rightly rejected the suicide pact Biden offered, it was another example of American prestige being squandered on bad dec🌠isions. 

Then there’s China, which had to be giddy when Biden made excuses afterꦦ one of its spy balloons flew openly acro🥃ss America’s heartland. 

No doubt Xi Jinping was delighted to hear that Biden downplayed the incident and even expressed doubt⛄ that Xi himself knew about the brazen ga𒁃mbit. 

It’s more than a point of curiosity to wonder how Biden thinks about all꧋ these and other terrible things that happened on his watch.

The world is on fire and despots are on the march, yet ꦆhe paints himself as a man of peace, as if all these events are just coincidence or bad luck. 

See no evil 

He doesn’t see, or admit, that his obsession with peace isn’t nobl🍎e when it appeases evil.

Peace through strength is not in his playbook and it is nonsense to boast a💛bout American might while you shrink our military and ꦛforce our brave warriors to focus on pronouns. 

If you’re a foreign power eager to seize territory and mo♐mentum, you couldn’t ask for a softer touch than Come-And-Get-It Biden. 

That’s what the millions upon millions of illegal migrants have realized as theꦛy cross our borders.

Most stop to fill out paperwork with Border Patrol agents who have been reduced to clerks, but millions🙈 of others — “gotaways,” in officialspeak — have entered the US without even that formality. 

This is a problem unlike any America has ever seen, and Tr🎉ump is not wro𒐪ng to call it an invasion.

Biden has never admitted the scope of the pr🧸oblem, nor explained why he threw open the doors to let it happen. 

Vice President Kamala Harris, the erstwhile “border czar,” has adopted Biden’s dishonest defense that Trump urged Republicaꦆns to kill a bipartisan Senate bill that would h🌳ave shrunk the numbers. 

It’s dishonest because the bill came in the fourth year of their tenure and would have reduced the number of illegal crossers by about half, when a simple reversal of the executive orders Biden used to open it𝐆 would have been faster and more effective. 

Bꦚesides, the bill didn’t pass either chamber of Congress, so claiming it was a cure isn’t even an honest talking point. 

Democratic crime wave 

Meanwhile, theꦛ invasion has led🔯 to a crime wave all its own in many locations far from the border, New York included.

❀And it has been a budget buster, with tens of billions of dollars being spent on a m𝓰assive new problem created at the stroke of Biden’s pen. 

If that weren’t legacy stains enough, here’s a prediction: History will record Biden’s tenure as the moment when the Department of Justice vio๊lated its honor and traditions by jumping headlong into partisan politꦚics. 

The pros𓂃ecution of Trump, both as a former president and as Biden’s opponent, marks a new low in our nation’s history. 

Never before has a former president been charged with a federal crime, and I don’t believe it’s simply a matter that all others were angels after leaving office.&♈nbsp;

Rather, it’s that previous generations understood something profound about the 𒊎fabric of our nation, and what held it together.

They put country ahead of party. 

The irony is that Biden took office promising to unite America, saying in his inaugural addre𒈔ss he would work equally hard for his opponents and his supporters. 

It was a promis✤e that evaporated the moment he💦 made it.

Biden, like so many on the left, hates T𝓡rump ﷽and his supporters and wants to erase them from history — by force if necessary. 

When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon over Waterg📖at❀e, he declared that “our long national nightmare is over.” 

When Biden leaves the White ꦑHouse in January, let us hope and pray we can say the same thing.