(CNN)If the day ends in a "y" it's a good bet thatoe Bidenas stumbled into yet another campaign trail gaffe.
The error-prone Democratic front-runner is now caught in a fresh self-inflicted storm over poignant story he told about an Afghan war hero that seems a mishmash of three separate tales.
This after he assured a rapt crowd in New Hampshire last Friday about a story later fact-checked by The Washington Post: "This is the God's truth. My word as a Biden."
His string of recent faux pas is occurring in an utterly chaotic political environment because of President Donald Trump.
Biden's misspeaks, misrememberings and other gaffes are not the same as Trump's purposeful daily assaults on the truth.
But they are triggering a debate about the nature of truth in politics and about how voters should distinguish between Biden's slips and the President's arguably more serious habit of bending facts at a historic rate.
The cavalcade of lies uttered by the President has blown to smithereens the traditional metrics of assessing a candidate's fealty to the truth and the consequences of such malfeasance. Yet the exposure of the President's habitual lying has not disqualified him politically. To the contrary, he often prospers by creating his own reality into which loyalists can buy.
As a result of this new era of shredded fact, the 2020 campaign is unfolding at a historic inflection point.
Every word candidates utter is being parsed for falsehoods like never before by armies of media fact checkers conscripted to meet the challenges posed by Trump.
Yet it's also a moment whenruth in politics appears more devalued than ever, since the President stands as an example that lying need not be fatal to a political career.
In a surreal moment on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" on Wednesday night, Trump's reelection campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany insisted Trump had neveried to the American people.
The President's behavior has led many media commentators to argue that politics has entered a post-truth era