WH’s John Kirby flips reality on Iran, AG Merrick Garland goes blind to Biden’s ‘impairment’ and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This claim:

“When Biden says, ‘don’t escalate’ . . . [Iran] didn’t.”

— WH National Security spokesman John Kirby, Monday

We say: What cojones! Kirby claims Iran heeded Biden’s warning to its leaders not to “escalate” and attack Israel after it killed Oct. 7 planner Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi.

Yet in his very next sentence, Kirby himself admits, “Yes, they fired an unprecedented amount of munitions” at the Jewish state.

How is that heeding Biden’s warning? Kirby notes the attack failed and “very little infrastructure” was damaged.

Sorry: That doesn’t mean Tehran didn’t try to inflict damage in an outrageous and dangerous escalation.

And in clear defiance of Biden.

This remark:

“The president has no [mental] impairment.”

— Attorney General Merrick Garland, Tuesday

We say: We get it. Garland has to stand up for the guy who gave him his job, Joe Biden.

But does he really think people can’t see for themselves the prez’s obvious decline?

They see it every time he slurs words, mangles sentences, rambles on, misstates names, dates and facts, fails to recall key events and roams around looking lost.

Special counsel Robert Hur even cited the prez’s confusion as the key reason prosecuting him for his classified-docs misdeeds would likely fail.

This self-appraisal:

“I’m more about deterring a crime than reacting to crime after it’s been committed.”

 — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Tuesday

We say: Heastie admits he isn’t hot on imposing penalties on criminals after they commit a crime.

Hello? How do you deter crime if not by making clear that perps will face penalties if they commit one?

With such perverse thinking from one of the state’s three top leaders, it’s no wonder New York is in such awful shape. 

This boast:

“Gas prices remain well below the peak back in 2022 . . . The average gas price is cheaper than this time last year.”

— WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Monday

We say: As a reporter noted after Jean-Pierre’s grotesque, uh, gaslighting, fuel at the pump is cheaper today (at $3.62 a gallon) than at “this time last year” ($3.65) — but by just three cents!

And, yes, prices have fallen since Bidenflation and Biden energy policies drove them as high as $5.01 in 2022.

But they’re still 52% more than when President Donald Trump left office ($2.39).

Compiled by The Post Editorial Board