OPINION

Jill Biden Is an Absolute Disgrace

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There’s a word for when someone knowingly says something untrue, or at least there used to be. What used to be “liar” is now expanded to “Democrat,” “liberal,” “progressive,” “scumbag,” “president,” and now “first lady.” 

How dare I say anything negative about the Reverend Doctor Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden Jr. III, esq? Am I unaware of the stories about her not being able to take a bath because she can’t sink in water, only walk on it? I’m just kidding, and apologize for making that joke about a woman who cheated on her first husband with Joe, that was inappropriate. Nothing else you can say about her – like she was basically given an honorary Education Doctorate (Ed. D.) as the wife of a powerful politician, as evidenced by the fact that her 7th grade level “dissertation” was accepted, not to mention is was about retaining community college students, which is expressly NOT the reason community colleges exist – is mean enough. She deserves whatever you’ve got. 

Jill, who insists on being call “Dr. Jill” because that’s what people lacking real accomplishments do, stands idly by as her husband is abused by handlers because she loves the trappings of the White House. An argument could be made that she’s simply too stupid to notice what’s happening, and that is possible, but it’s unlikely. She sees him up close, and has for years. Joe has always been stupid, but the senility is new. It would be harder to miss than all of his groping, grabbing, nibbling, sniffing, rubbing and sexually assaulting over the years, all of which (except the last one) were regularly done in public.

Jill didn’t care. Jill doesn’t care.

But that’s not what inspired me to write this column, bad as those things are. No, it was the 4 fundraising emails she signed last month over 6 days – February 10, 11, 13 and 15 – where she used the death of her step-son, Beau Biden, to raise money for her husband’s reelection campaign. She did this willingly, based on what she either knew was a lie at the time or has since found out was a lie and let it stand. Either way, it is disgusting, though not surprising for someone with the last name “Biden.”

Joe has exploited the deaths of his first wife and infant daughter for years, even accusing the driver of the other car in crash of being drunk (something the family had to threaten to sue to get him to stop lying about, which he then did, acknowledging the lie) to elicit more sympathy. And with Beau’s death from brain cancer, Joe has routinely claimed he died in Iraq, even though he died in Bethesda, Maryland, years after a tour of duty in Iraq as a JAG officer. 

Joe lies about the things to make him seem more sympathetic, or to pretend to identify with people who’d lose loved ones recently, sometimes due to his incompetent policies. It’s shameless and gross, but you can’t really expect much more from someone who’s been doing it literally since the early 1970s. 

Jill, on the other hand, hasn’t. For obvious reasons, the deaths of Biden’s first wife and daughter didn’t impact her at the time. But Beau’s death did. She’d been his step-mom for decades at that point. Joe’s lies about it should impact her, should strike her as gross because, well, objectively they are. But she doesn’t care.

If she did, she could say something to him to get him to knock it off. Since he still does it, it’s clear she hasn’t. 

So what was in those fundraising emails signed by Jill that is so disgusting? In each of them – the first 2 had the subject line, “My thoughts on this week” and the other 2, “My thoughts on last week,” each contain, word for word, the following: “I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack -- not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother. I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know that you don’t measure it in years -- you measure it in grief. May 30th is a day forever etched on our hearts. It shattered me, it shattered our family.”

This was in reaction to what we now know was yet another lie from Joe – that Special Counsel Robert Hur brought up Beau’s death during his interview about Joe’s theft of classified materials. Joe knew it was a lie. If Jill didn’t at the time, she does now. At a minimum, Jill knows of Joe’s habit of lying, particularly about his own life. If Jill wanted to elicit sympathy and money (which is gross) over the death of her step-son, shouldn’t she be disgusted that her husband lied about who brought it up in that interview?

Wouldn’t a parent, step or otherwise, refuse to sign a fundraising email multiple times inside of a week exploiting that person’s death for money? A decent person would. Jill didn’t. 

It must have worked, or else they wouldn’t have done it that many times in a row. Do those Democrats dumb enough to believe the Bidens about this lie now get their money back? Now that we know Joe lied, that he brought it up (and couldn’t’ remember the year, as was reported but denied by the White House), can they get a refund? 

Hell no. Anyone shameless enough to exploit the deaths of loved ones in the first place isn’t going to give a damn when they’re exposed as frauds. The Biden family has been doing it for so long, it’s likely impossible for them to feel shame. They blamed Hunter’s use of drugs on Beau’s death too, even though he’d been kicked out of the Navy for multiple positive tests for cocaine years before Beau died.

Like I said, they’re all shameless. But they don’t all insist on being called “Doctor,” they aren’t using their position to lie to raise money, and they aren’t all uniquely positioned to make sure none of this happened in the first place, or happens again and do nothing about it. That is a position occupied exclusively by Jill.

Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.