Listen to any Democrat spinning President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, and one of the lines you’ll hear is, “Yes, Biden had a bad night, but Donald Trump repeatedly lied.” To be fair, falsehoods poured from Trump much as usual, but the dichotomy Democrats wish to suggest is a false one. Biden was just as dishonest. He lied constantly, as he always does. Biden has a long history of not telling the truth, going all the way back to his first failed presidential campaign in 1987.

Before we address Biden’s debate claims, it is only equitable to note some of Trump’s worst falsehoods. He did not, as he claimed, deliver the biggest tax cut in American history (that honor still belongs to President Ronald Reagan), it was not Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who turned down National Guard protection before Jan. 6 (that was the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms), and illegal immigrants are not destroying Social Security and Medicare (although they are a huge burden to state and local governments that have to house, clothe, feed, and educate them, they do not qualify for Medicare or Social Security benefits).