{"id":2295798,"date":"2024-07-16T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-biden-and-the-democrats-every-failure-is-actually-a-success\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:15:53","slug":"for-biden-and-the-democrats-every-failure-is-actually-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-biden-and-the-democrats-every-failure-is-actually-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"For Biden And The Democrats, Every Failure Is Actually A Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffor-biden-and-the-democrats-every-failure-is-actually-a-success%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2295798&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a \u2062recent incident where a shooter attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a \u2064rally, the Secret Service failed to prevent the attack despite multiple\u2063 warning \u2063signs. Despite this failure, President Joe\u200b Biden and his administration have continued to defend \u200bthe Secret Service and claim that they have \u200c&#8221;100 percent \u200cconfidence&#8221; in the agency. This incident is \u200bjust one example\u200c of how the Biden administration consistently tries to \u2063spin \u2064failures \u200binto successes, as seen in \u200bother instances \u200bsuch as \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-accuses-biden-of-breaking-deal-with-taliban-says-withdrawal-is-disastrous-and-a-foreign-policy-humiliation\/\" title=\"Pence Accuses Biden Of Breaking Deal With Taliban, Says Withdrawal Is \u2018Disastrous\u2019 And A \u2018Foreign-Policy Humiliation\u2019\">chaotic withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-alejandro-mayorkas-testifying-before-house-judiciary-committee\/\" title=\"LIVE: Alejandro Mayorkas testifies at House Judiciary Committee.\">ongoing \u2064border crisis<\/a>. The pattern \u200dof \u200bdenial and lack of accountability within the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reminds-americans-that-hunter-biden-got-3-5m-from-moscow-mayors-wife\/\" title=\"Trump Reminds Americans That Hunter Biden Got .5M From Moscow Mayor\u2019s Wife\">administration raises concerns<\/a> about their ability to address serious issues\u200c effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>No failure, regardless of how monumental or catastrophic, is ever so bad that President Joe Biden and his lieutenants won\u2019t try to spin it into some kind of success. Because no Democrat will ever admit failure, there\u2019s never any accountability when things go unimaginably bad.<\/p>\n<p>Witness <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1812931379107406133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the spectacle of Biden\u2019s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> on Monday defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/us-secret-service-director-plans-to-stay-on-as-calls-grow-for-her-resignation\/ar-BB1q2AqR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a growing chorus of calls to resign<\/a>, and declaring he has \u201c100 percent\u201d confidence in her and her agency in the wake of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in western Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you saw on stage on Saturday, with respect to individuals putting their own lives at risk for the protection of another, is exactly what the American public should see every single day,\u201d he said \u2014 adding, in a note of absurd self-aggrandizement, \u201cIt is what I indeed do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president himself, in a Monday interview with NBC News, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1813036100006367663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">echoed Mayorkas\u2019 line<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-denies-clinton-attorney-micheal-sussmanns-movement-to-dismiss-costs-for-alleged-lies-to-the-fbi\/\" title=\"Judge Denies Clinton Attorney Micheal Sussmann\u2019s Movement To Dismiss COSTS FOR Alleged Lies To The FBI\">individual agents<\/a> putting their lives on the line and then said it was an \u201copen question\u201d whether they did what they needed to do to prevent the assassination attempt.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, they did <em>not do<\/em> what needed to be done, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t have happened. The failure of the Secret Service in this regard is mind-boggling in its completeness. There is no way they could have failed in greater measure \u2014 except to have literally done nothing and allowed the shooter to empty his magazine at Trump. Yet the Biden administration is chalking this up to an exemplary success and claims to still have \u201c100 percent confidence\u201d in the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>All this comes as new, jaw-dropping details of the Secret Service\u2019s failure come to light. Olivia Rinaldi of CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/olivialarinaldi\/status\/1813021945958449180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted on X Monday evening<\/a> that snipers were stationed inside the building where the would-be assassin staged his attack. They saw him beforehand, outside looking up at the roof. He left and came back and they <em>watched him use a range finder<\/em>. They took a picture of him and called it in to the command post. He came back a third time with a backpack and then disappeared around behind the back of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that video footage from rally attendees confirms that a bunch of people saw the shooter well before he fired from the rooftop and struck Trump in the ear. They filmed it. In the video clips, people yell, \u201cHe\u2019s on the roof!\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s got a gun!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as sniper assassination attempts go, this might be the most telegraphed attack in history. Yet the Secret Service failed to act until after the shooter got off five rounds, one of which hit the former (and likely future) president in the face \u2014 and another of which killed an innocent husband and father in the crowd, Corey Comperatore.<\/p>\n<p>Surely Mayorkas knows all this, which means there\u2019s only one reason he has \u201c100 percent confidence\u201d in the Secret Service: They allowed the assassination attempt, or at least issued an order to stand down until the would-be assassin fired first. That\u2019s the only reasonable explanation here, and if it\u2019s true, then it\u2019s one of the greatest scandals \u2014 and acts of treason \u2014 in American history.<\/p>\n<p>But for the sake of argument, let\u2019s say it was just a monumental failure, a display of incompetence that beggars belief. In that case, we see a pattern here we\u2019ve seen throughout the Biden presidency, in which every failure, no matter how objective it is, no matter how mind-bogglingly complete, is somehow chalked up to success by Biden and his band of incompetents.<\/p>\n<p>The catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan was actually a logistical feat! Who can forget Gen. Mark Milley bragging about how many people were evacuated in so short a time \u2014 with no mention of why they had to be evacuated so fast and how many thousands were left behind to be victimized by the Taliban? He did this \u2014 and Biden repeated the talking point \u2014 even after 13 U.S. soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Or take the ongoing, never-ending border invasion under Biden. Mayorkas has insisted for the better part of three years that there is no crisis, that the border is under control, and that actually, the men and women of Border Patrol are doing a great job under very difficult circumstances, and blah blah blah it\u2019s not a failure, it\u2019s a success. Never mind that some 10 million-plus illegal immigrants have flooded into the country on Biden\u2019s watch and that no small number of them have proceeded to rape and kill American citizens after being released from federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>In every such case, Biden officials act like the American people are simply too stupid to recognize these failures for the successes they actually are. Afghanistan was a feat of logistics. The border is a feat of administrative processing. The assassination attempt was a feat of selflessness by the individual agents.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s another thing: They always hide behind the poor saps who have to carry out their insane, disastrous policies. No one doubts the courage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vets-battle-critical-race-theory-invasion-of-military\/\" title=\"Vets Battle Critical Race Theory Invasion of Military\">individual soldiers<\/a> in Afghanistan or Border Patrol agents along the Rio Grande or the Secret Service agents who rushed the stage in Pennsylvania. What we doubt is the ability of the people in charge even to recognize the difference between success and failure.<\/p>\n<p>For them, every failure is actually a success, which means there is never accountability because nothing ever goes awry. Imagine the confidence it would give the American people if Biden came out and announced that U.S. Secret Service Director Cheatle has been asked to resign, along with Mayorkas, in light of the assassination attempt against Trump. That would actually give Americans some confidence that their leaders are still tethered to reality, or at least that they are sometimes forced to recognize the truth and act on it.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, we have an unstable admixture of incompetence and malice \u2014 and an enraging absence of accountability.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&#038;qid=1695306441&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and his administration refuse to acknowledge any failures, no matter how significant, and instead try to spin them as successes. This lack of accountability was evident in Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defending U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Despite clear failures in preventing the attack, the administration continues to express confidence in the Secret Service. This pattern of denying failures as successes has been seen in other instances, such as the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ongoing border crisis. The lack of accountability and refusal to acknowledge failures is concerning and frustrating for the American people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2295799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mayorkas.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32502,3685,5071,5894,5440],"class_list":["post-2295798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden-administration","tag-democrats","tag-failure","tag-politics","tag-success"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Mayorkas.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}