The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Lied. Now America Pays.

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson examines how these falsehoods shaped the country and eroded trust in key institutions on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ What do all these lies have in common? One, nobody's ever apologized for them. Nobody's even tried to defend them. Nobody's tried to deny them. Nobody's tried to sustain them. They all did terrible damage to the United States.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. The last week, we've been hearing a lot about these lies. I guess there's no other word for it. One of the most egregious was the idea that Joe Biden was ever mentally or physically fit to be president. Anybody over the last four years who objected to that and said that he was non-composementes, obviously demented, tragically so, was branded an agist or conspiracist or cruel. Now, after he left office, even the people who participated in this cover-up, media luminaries,

have all now confessed that they knew he was on fit to be president. This was the greatest cover-up on the American people since Woodrow Wilson's stroke was covered up by insiders, including his wife, Edith Wilson. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. The last week, we've been hearing a lot about these lies. I guess there's no other word for it. One of the most egregious was the idea that Joe Biden was ever mentally or physically fit to be president.

I think everybody knew there was some sort of grand deal in 2020 during the primaries when these hard leftist candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigig, etc., had no chance of winning a general election and Joe Biden was used basically as a waxen effigy. Anybody over the last four years who objected to that and said that he was, was non-composmentez, or obviously demented, tragically so, was branded an agist or conspiracist or cruel. And yet now after he left office, even the people who participated in this cover-up, media luminaries have all now confessed that they knew he was on fit to be president. He was fit. This was the greatest cover-up on the American people since Woodrow Wilson's stroke was

covered up by insiders, including his wife, Edith Wilson. There was a second lie, though, that was just as harmful. We just learned that the German intelligence services had long ago concluded what every one of us knew that case one of the COVID virus was found. to be right next to the Wuhan Virology Level 4 lab, level 5 lab. Everybody knew that the Chinese Communist Party and then later the People's Liberation

Army were operating a lab where they were engaged in very dangerous coronavirus gain in function research. And there was never an animal, a pangolin, a bat that had this virus before a human case study. of a human getting it. So we knew it came from there. But yet anybody who said that was demonized

and considered a conspiracist, a liar. And now all of a sudden, everybody says, sorry, it was all a lie that it wasn't, that you were correct. And why did they do this? They did it because some had commercial ties with the Chinese government, lucrative in the corporate world. They did not want to endanger them. They didn't want to accuse China of killing millions of people and may mean millions more through this engineered virus. Snap up Ancestry DNA's lowest price ever in our incredible cyber sale. With 50% off ancestry DNA kits, it's the perfect time to help a loved one unwrap the past. And with their latest update, they'll discover their family origins like never before.

With even more precise regions and new and exclusive features. Their best gift, our lowest price. 50% off ancestry DNA, only until December 6th, December 6th. Second. Visit Ancestry.CA for more details. Terms apply. Some of them were self-interested, like Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, that had transferred monies, expertise, and instrumentation, either through the National Institutes of Health, Fauci's own Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, or now we learn USAID. Whatever the reason, that was a horrendous lie to put over on the American people. And yet now no one

denies it. They all say, yeah, they just shrug, yeah, it probably came from the lab. You were all right. We who trashed and demonized you and slandered you. A third very quickly was Russian collusion. Remember, this was this has-been ex-spy, Christopher Steele, who partly collated lurid sex lies and James Bond-like spy fantasies along with Russian disinformation and claim that Donald Trump was working with the Russians to throw the election.

At the time, people said, thanks to Devin Nunes and Cash Patel and others, wait a minute, this was paid for by Hillary Clinton, this dossier, through the paywalls of the DNC, Perkins Coe, and Fusion GPS, and it was disseminated in part by the DOJ under Barack Obama and, of course, the FBI under James Comey. And yet nobody said anything about it. They said, you're crazy. This is true.

And now all of a sudden, no one believes Russian collusion. Nobody does. Same thing with laptop disinformation. Right before the 2020 election, the last debate, Joe Biden was going to be tarred, legitimately so, deservedly so, because of what the contents of his son's laptop had revealed, pornography, drugs, but most importantly, collusion with the Biden family. with foreign interests, Mr. Big, Mr. 10%, etc. So what did he do? He got Anthony Blinken, the future secretary of state.

He called the interim FBI director at one time Mike Morrell. They rounded up 51 intelligence authorities, and you know who they were. The perjers, John Brennan, James Clapper, the unhinged Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, and they promulgated a lie. And now no one says that Russian disinformation was. accurate. I just want to finish with the border. We were told there was nothing that could be done with the border. 12 million people flowing across was inevitable. We needed comprehensive immigration reform. That was all a lie. They deliberately destroyed the border. They wanted 12 million people to come.

It was all a plan to change the demography, the constituency, to grow government, to increase social services as part of the liberal project. What do all these lies have in common? One, nobody's ever apologized for them. Nobody's even tried to defend them. Nobody's tried to deny them. Nobody's tried to sustain them. They all did terrible damage to the United States. It'll take years to find 12 million illegal aliens.

We don't believe any of our agencies anymore. Our health agencies, our investigatory, our intelligence agencies. And finally, it destroyed the media. No one believes any of the legacy media. They promulgated an advantage of it. all of these five rooses. They never apologized. They made fun of anybody who questioned them.

And then now we're supposed to shrug and say, you were right. They were all lies. We forgive you. No, we don't. We don't. These lies did terrible damage to the United States. And the people who are responsible for them have never apologized.

This is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signing. Thank you for watching today's podcast. And for more news like that, subscribe to the Daily Signal. Maybe you can check out my own website at victorhansson.com for podcast, lectures, ultra-series behind a paywall, but more importantly, just daily columns that are accessible and free to everyone. Thank you very much.