More lies and smears from Biden-Harris. This is the subject of “The Riff”.

Out of respect for the office of president — and I’ve served two of them — I take no pleasure in making this case: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have consistently lied more than any administration I can think of.

In recent years, I’ve tried to describe this as cognitive dissonance or “untruths.” But the simple reality is that they keep lying.

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Just yesterday, for example, President Biden and his press secretary tried to get away with “the only trash I see floating around there is his supporters.”

The press office tried to debunk the quote by inserting an apostrophe after supporters to suggest he was only referring to a comedian rather than the 80 million people who voted for Donald Trump.

But you can’t get away with such lies in the information age.

The official White House stenographers immediately objected to the false editing of the official transcript which, at some point, will end up in the National Archives. The supervisor of stenographers called it “a breach of protocol and a spoliation of the integrity of the transcription between the stenographic and press offices.”

Well, I would say it’s a spoliation of Mr. Biden’s integrity. There it goes again.

Yesterday’s other big lie came from billionaire Kamala surrogate Mark Cuban, who said, “You never see Trump around strong, intelligent women, ever” — a stupid lie from Cuban, but so far neither Biden nor Harris disagreed with him.

You know who disagrees with him? Sarah Sanders, Susie Wiles, Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Brooke Rollins, Mercy Schlapp, Linda McMahon, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, Judith Pond Kudlow and a whole endless list of strong and intelligent women working with Trump that would be far too long for this riff.

But let’s move on to today’s report, the worst in three years, where private sector jobs fell by 102,000 and the last two months were revised down by 112,000 (remember the previous evaporation of 818,000 jobs work?).

The only real gains came from 91,000 government and government-adjacent jobs. There are 13 million unemployed or underemployed, and in the past twelve months, native-born workers have lost nearly 800,000 jobs, while foreign-born workers have gained over a million.

And while manufacturing jobs continue to decline, the ISM manufacturing index remains in recession.

All of this brings to mind another lie, that 16 million jobs were created during the Biden-Harris administration. Kamala has repeated this a hundred times, but it is not true.

Stripping out COVID-recovery jobs, they created 6.7 million — about the same number as the Trump administration, before COVID.

A related lie is that they created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. But stripping out the rebound effect, that’s just 93,000 — far fewer than Trump’s 414,000 manufacturing jobs.

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In the information age, you simply cannot lie about these numbers. Everyone has access to the same government statistics.

And that brings to mind the lie that when Biden-Harris took over in 2021, they inherited a depression-like “bumpy” economy. Simply untrue.

Trump gave them a V-shaped COVID recovery. In the third quarter of 2020, the economy rebounded by 35%, followed by 4.5% in Q4 and 5.5% in the first quarter of 2021.

Then Biden-Harris issued another lie – that they inherited a major rate of inflation.

Completely untrue. Trump delivered an inflation rate of 1.4%.

Repeatedly, Biden-Harris has claimed that they are reducing the federal budget deficit. They have made this case again and again.

But that’s another lie, with budget deficits actually running at $2 trillion as far as the eye can see, according to the CBO baseline.

Again, why lie when regular people can call their computers and get the real numbers?

Then they lied that billionaires only pay an 8% tax rate, but they rely on an unrealized capital gains tax law that was never passed by Congress.

In addition to the economy, Kamala continues to say that Trump will ban abortion nationwide.

But this is a lie. Trump has rejected the idea at every turn, saying it is best handled by the states, according to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

Kamala then claims that Trump would restrict access to birth control and IVF. And that’s also completely false, as Trump has said at nearly every campaign stop.

Then there are the desperate lies from Kamala.

Trump is a fascist. He is Hitler. He is racist. He was a Russian agent. He’s a bigot, sexist and more.

This is all utter nonsense.

Former Trump OMB director and chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wrote that in all his time with Trump, he never heard anything about Hitler.

I’ve been to hundreds of meetings in the Oval Office and other places and I’ve never heard anything about Hitler.

The whole ‘threat to democracy’ business that Kamala keeps pushing is a rambling old argument that has no basis in reality.

Remember, it was the Biden-Harris Department of Justice that weaponized the law against Mr. Trump and tried to throw him in prison for 750 years. All failed on appeal.

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Kamala trash-talks and mud-slings to avoid talking about her failed record on kitchen-table issues: high prices, falling real wages, an affordability crisis for homes and cars and everyday necessities. And, of course, the massive border crisis and the crime wave that followed it. And the world on fire in Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Middle East.

Kamala broke it. Mr. Trump intends to fix it.

But the barrage of lies from President Biden and Vice President Harris shows an enormous character flaw that has, from day one, undermined their credibility and the trust of voters.

There are four days until the election. And this is “The Riff”.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary in the November 1, 2024 edition of “Kudlow”.