Yesterday, at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed president Biden for successfully seizing so much fentanyl before it reaches American soil, and suggesting that stopping fentanyl from entering the United States was evidence of a broken open border policy. She followed up the hearing with a tweet featuring a video of a mother who had lost two sons: 'Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son's murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel's from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl.'

Certainly everyone would agree that a parent, like Rebecca Kiessling, losing two children to accidental fentanyl overdoses is a tragedy. And while Greene offered the video as proof of the Biden administration's failure to address this drug epidemic, she made one rather glaring mistake: Kiessling's sons died in 2020, when Trump was president.

But that seems to be a pattern with the republican party today.

Republican Reps. Ronny Jackson and Randy Feenstra (retweeted by House Speaker McCarthy) complained about president Biden paying Americans to stay home, citing a report by the U.S. Dept of Labor... but the enhanced unemployment benefits to which they referred were signed into law by president Trump.

Rep. Lauren Boebert blamed president Biden for Covid-related school closures in 2020, when Donald Trump was president.

Kayleigh McEnany attacked Biden for rising crime based on data from 2020, when Trump was president.

Why do republicans make these false claims? Because they work. Republicans blamed Obama for the financial crisis which began months before he took office as well as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in 2005, three years before Obama was president. A poll found that nearly a third of Louisiana republicans blamed Obama for the failed federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

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