Biden Insists He Merely Wanted to ‘Reorient Relations’ with the Country He Pledged to Make a ‘Pariah’

It is easily overlooked, but last week, previewing his trip to the Middle East, President Biden offered another whopper of a lie:

From the start, my aim was to reorient — but not rupture — relations with a country that’s been a strategic partner for 80 years.

“Reorient — but not rupture — relations” is a curious way to characterize Biden’s position, as he described it on November 21, 2019:

ANDREA MITCHELL: Mr. Vice President, the CIA has concluded that the leader of Saudi Arabia directed the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The State Department also says the Saudi government is responsible for executing nonviolent offenders and for torture. President Trump has not punished senior Saudi leaders. Would you?

JOE BIDEN: Yes, and I said it at the time. Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and I believe on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. There’s very little social redeeming value of the — in the present government in Saudi Arabia. [Emphasis added.]

So Biden just wanted to “reorient relations” with the pariah state that had very little social redeeming value? Huh?

Biden says or has his staff write this stuff, and he just hopes no one notices.

Have you noticed that the media’s fact-checkers very rarely get around to Biden statements like this? Meanwhile, Reuters fact-checkers assure us that the “U.S. Supreme Court has not voted to overturn 2020 presidential election result,” as some random schmo on social media claimed. Yeah, no shinola, Sherlock. I know the Supreme Court has had a lot of big decisions lately, but I figure that if the Court overturned the presidential election nearly two years after it occurred — not an authority they have under the U.S. Constitution! — we would have heard about it from someone beyond the Twitter account “DJTTracker.”