Bush and Obama have no business lecturing others about 'disinformation'

From my latest at BASEDPolitics: "Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are scheduled to hold separate events this week where they will warn of the danger of 'disinformation,' according to an Axios report Saturday. The two will reportedly highlight 'rising threats from authoritarianism and disinformation — and how to combat them globally and at home...'

This is a discussion worth having. So are the ex-presidents who are choosing to discuss it—because both of their legacies are defined in large part by spreading disinformation.

Bush and Obama, two of the biggest liars in history, are holding events to preach against "disinformation." We live in very stupid times. Stop falling for the government's propaganda against free speech.@jackhunter74 for BASEDPolitics:https://t.co/0LXwjvkEIx

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) November 14, 2022

Obamacare passed and was signed into law by Obama in 2010 and it quickly became apparent that the president’s claims were not true. By 2013, even the left-leaning PolitiFact called it the 'lie of the year...'

President Bush insisted that U.S. intelligence showed that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. He warned of a 'mushroom cloud' if the U.S. didn’t invade Iraq. His administration even said that Osama Bin Laden and Hussein had a collaborative relationship, an outright fabrication they soon walked back…

And it was all a lie. Donald Trump said in 2016, 'They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none.'

That might be the truest statement uttered by any modern president."

Read the entire column.