A variety of U.S. officials responded to the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack in very different ways, though Donald Trump took the opportunity to publish a poorly timed message to his social media platform. It read in its entirety:

Biden is doing everything possible to make the TRANSITION as difficult as as possible, from Lawfare such as has never been seen before, to costly and ridiculous Executive Orders on the Green New Scam and other money wasting Hoaxes. Fear not, these “Orders” will all be terminated shortly, and we will become a Nation of Common Sense and Strength. MAGA!!!

There was no shortage of bizarre errors of fact and judgment in the missive. President Joe Biden, for example, is not engaged in any prosecutorial abuses. The retiring Democrat has protected millions of acres of coastline from offshore oil and gas drilling, but (a) that’s not the Green New Deal; (b) this isn’t a “scam”; and (c) the climate crisis isn’t a “hoax,” no matter how many times Trump claims otherwise.....

The obvious problem with the claim is the overwhelming evidence pointing in the opposite direction: The Democrat welcomed Trump to the White House after Election Day, for example, despite the fact that Trump did not extend the same courtesy after the 2020 race. Biden also vowed to attend his successor’s inaugural ceremony, which the Republican also refused to do.....

But even if we put all of that aside, it takes galactic amounts of chutzpah for Trump, of all people, to whine about Biden making the presidential transition process “difficult.”

As the Republican probably ought to remember, during the last presidential transition process, he refused to accept the election results, lied uncontrollably about his defeat, pursued a scheme to claim illegitimate power, provoked an insurrectionist riot, and became the first president in American history to deny the nation a peaceful transfer of power.