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DAVID MARCUS: Trump awarded PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year,' but site skips Biden's Iie of the century
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According to readers and editors at PolitiFact, an organization which claims to be a neutral arbiter of truth in politics, the biggest lie of 2024, surely a competitive category, was Donald Trump suggesting that cats and dogs were being eaten by Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
But I think we can all remember a much, much bigger one.
On Thursday, June 27th of this year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump participated in a presidential debate that not only changed the fate of the country, but exposed the lie of this century, namely that octogenarian Biden was fit as fiddle.
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It was with pure shock that America watched its sitting president, life all but drained from his cold visage, barely capable of coming up with words. And at that moment, years of lies about Grandpa Joe’s mental fitness utterly collapsed.
There had been signs of Biden’s decline, even though he was hidden as much as possible. But we were assured by the White House that behind closed doors Joe had the stamina of a 20-year-old and recited Aquinas’ proofs of God in Latin while doing jumping jacks.
On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will be right up there between Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Back in February, after Joe Biden told a story about how had recently talked to French President Francois Mitterand, who, um, died in 1996, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden’s fitness. Here is the exchange:
“I’m not even going to go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” KJP said.
“Why is it a rabbit hole?!” Doocy asked.
“You saw the president in Vegas, in California,” Jean-Pierre replied. “You’ve seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there.”
They should have left Biden there.
So, not only was Jean-Pierre lying about Biden’s mental state, she basically accused anyone who dared to question it of being a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.
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Even when Mumbly Joe was caught on camera enduring an episode or two, the White House told us those videos were “cheapfakes,” despite the fact that they were not manipulated at all.
On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will be right up there between Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
However, instead of choosing the White House’s triple whopper of blatant prevarication regarding Biden’s ability to serve, the geniuses at PolitiFact say that the top lie is Trump saying pets are being eaten by migrants in Springfield.
First of all, we do not actually know that reports of Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio are, in fact, lies. In September, I travelled to Springfield and spoke to multiple people who had heard accounts of the pet eating practice, and believed them.
Even if those accounts are false, the purpose of highlighting them as Trump did was to draw attention to the very real crisis brought to that community by settling 15,000 migrants in the small city of 60,000 souls in just 2 years.
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I heard directly from the citizens there about the havoc wrought, overcrowding in schools, rents soaring, and public safety at risk. Even if Trump did get the details wrong in terms of the pets, he was at least pointing to something very real.
Conversely, the pernicious lies that hid the true, decrepit state of the man supposedly running the nation served absolutely nobody’s interests except for Biden himself, and his band of lying flunkies.
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Politico would have you believe that Trump was engaging in dangerous, racist attacks against the migrants by platforming the plight of Springfield’s natives, but in Springfield I found no racism, no threats to migrants.
What I did find was raw anger at the Biden administration and local government who the people think threw their beloved city under the bus.
Ultimately, Joe Biden’s lie of the century blew up in his face, leaving him to limp out of his single term as president in disgrace.
Meanwhile, Trump, fresh off of his convincing win in November, is poised to finally help the desperate people of Springfield, whether that includes saving cuddly animals or not.
Sorry Politifact, a year from now nobody will remember the cats and dogs of Springfield, but 100 years from now everyone will still be learning about the president who wasn’t there in their history books.
And sadly, for Joseph Robinette Biden, the 46th president of the United States, this lie of the century will be his sad and enduring legacy.
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The Detroit Lions are facing a significant dilemma regarding a player selected in the first-round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
Cornerback Terrion Arnold is facing multiple felony charges stemming from an alleged robbery and kidnapping plot in Florida.
When drafted, the former Alabama Crimson Tide defensive back signed a four-year, $14,343,710 contract. The agreement included a $7,251,788 signing bonus and an average salary of $3,585,928 annually.
So at this point, Arnold has been paid more than half of his contract.
This year, Arnold was set to earn a base salary of $1,273,974, which included a roster bonus of $825,000. His cap hit is $3,911,921 this year and has dead cap hit of $9,127,816.
If the Lions decide to cut the 23-year-old, they would be on the hook for dead cap costs, but could in the future recoup monies based on the league’s conduct policy.
According to Spotrac, “Lions Terrion Arnold has 2-years, $4.8 M (guaranteed) remaining on his rookie contract, plus a potential 5th-year option for the 2028 season. Any suspension stemming from a violation of the league’s conduct polict would void the guarantees.”
In the short term, cutting Arnold is not significantly beneficial. The organization could save money in the future depending on if his decisions are deemed to have breech the clauses in his first NFL contract.
Detroit has options at the cornerback position if Arnold is no longer a part of the organization. Nick Whiteside, Rock Ya-Sin, Keith Abney and Ennis Rakestraw are all in the mix to earn playing time opposite of veteran D.J. Reed.
“It’s just the depth. Like, you’ve got guys that have played in games and that’s what you want. It’s not like you’re guessing on what you’re getting. You know what you’re going to get from those guys and so another year in the system, another year competing, he’s (Whiteside) going to be better,” said defensive backs coach Deshea Townsend. “And just that’s the thing about the NFL, you got to have guys who go out there and compete and he’s another one that’s capable of playing and it’s going to push everybody else in the room.”
Currently, the team has $19,338,873 (17th) available in cap space, based on the top-51 players on the roster.
#Lions CB Terrion Arnold has 2-years, $4.8M (guaranteed) remaining on his rookie contract, plus a potential 5th-year option for the 2028 season.
Any suspension stemming from a violation of the league’s conduct policy would void the guarantees.
— Spotrac (@spotrac) June 25, 2026
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Sneak peek inside the new Milwaukee Public Museum under construction
See inside the new Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin, the future successor to the Milwaukee Public Museum, under construction on Nov. 20, 2025.
The Milwaukee Public Museum has now packed 600,000 items from its collection of 4 million as the staff prepares to move them into their new home: The Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin at 1310 N. 6th St.
The staff could still be working through 2027 to move the remaining items, said Collections Move Project Manager Sara Podejko on June 24.
“We will continue packing here even after the future museum opens,” Podejko said.
According to the museum’s June report to the County Board’s committee on parks and culture, construction continues to move along on track, and the new site is expected to open mid-way through 2027.
About half of the total collection has already been inventoried, a painstaking process that has given the museum the opportunity to streamline its electronic storage system.
“There’s been a lot of work ongoing in the collections departments prior to digitize their material, but not everything was. And so, a real upside to this move is that we are able to not only inventory, but barcode all of our specimens,” Podejko said.
That barcode allows collection move technicians to easily input items into an inventory spreadsheet and immediately relocate them.
“It kind of eliminates some human error, which is really important when you’re dealing with four million things,” Podejko said.
Twenty-nine staff members are facilitating the move, including the technicians who were hired and trained specifically to move the artifacts.
“Every time they pack an object, they first assess it for its condition, weaknesses, areas of stability, and then they adapt the pack to that object itself,” Podejko said.
Many of the technicians are also recent graduates and early professionals looking to break into the museum collections scene.
“Collections can be difficult to get into and a job like this kind of gives them (a) foot in the door,” Podejko said.
The public museum’s current facility has continued to face structural challenges amid the move. In January, a passenger elevator failed and was out of service for two months. The only elevator was a small one for wheelchairs, which led to wait times as long as 30 minutes. During that time, an escalator was also taken out of service for repairs.
The museum’s 350-ton water-cooled chiller is also close to failure and needs bearing replacement to keep it functioning throughout the summer.
Sunshine and comfortable temperatures return Thursday before a weekend warm-up sends highs into the 90s. Heat index values could reach the triple digits early next week. FOX 9 meteorologist Jared Piepenburg has the forecast.
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