To the surprise of many, the New York Times just exposed some of the "deceptions" and "illusions" of the administration of President Joe Biden. 

The report was written by Bret Stephens, and it is titled, The Biden Presidency: Four Illusions, Four Deceptions.

There is little doubt that even a less-skilled writer can produce a whole book on the Biden administration's "deceptions" and "illusions."

Stephens, however, focuses on four of each.

The four "illusions"

Stephens does the reader a favor by simply listing them off.

He begins:

The illusions: first, that the 2021 surge in migration was seasonal (“happens every single solitary year,” as Biden said that March); second, that the Taliban would not swiftly seize Afghanistan (“the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,” as he said that July); third, that inflation was transitory (“Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen are expected to be temporary,” also that July).

The final "illusion," according to Stephens is "the biggest." It is that Biden "was the best Democratic candidate to defeat Donald Trump: “I beat him once, and I will beat him again,” he often insisted, even after the debate debacle."

We, of course, now know that all of these things turned out to be dead wrong. Biden, in fact, is still claiming that he could have beat President-Elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Now, we will look at the "deceptions" that Stephens has identified.

The four "deceptions"

As we will see, the deceptions include the various lies that the American public was told about Biden's health.

Stephens writes:

Biden ran in 2020 on the implicit but clear pledge that he intended to serve a single term. (“If Biden is elected, he’s going to be 82 years old in four years,” one campaign adviser told Politico in 2019, “and he won’t be running for re-election.”) He promised to be a bipartisan and moderate figure in the White House: “Unity” was the theme of his Inaugural Address. He, along with his entire administration, insisted he was mentally and physically fit to serve a second term. And he promised not to pardon his son Hunter if he were convicted of crimes.

The pardon lie was especially egregious. It even earned some criticism from some of Biden's fellow Democrats.

Biden, recently, has assured the country that he will not be pardoning himself, but how could anyone believe anything he has to say.

The good news is that Biden is on his way out, and Trump is on his way in, and, you can say what you want about Trump, but it is a fact that he is one of the most transparent presidents in history. It should be a nice change of pace.