NEW: Bernie Moreno Caught Lying Again, This Time Claiming He Learned English From Reagan
July 10, 2024
Heartland Signal: Bernie Moreno Claims To Have Learned English From Ronald Reagan Speeches. The Timeline Doesn’t Make Sense.
Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno repeatedly claimed that he “learned English from watching Ronald Reagan’s speeches” at five years old, but new reporting found that the timeline “doesn’t make sense.” This lie is the latest example in a growing “string of inconsistencies” that is “dogg[ing]” Moreno as he attempts to “turn himself into someone he is not.”
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Heartland Signal: Bernie Moreno claims to have learned English from Ronald Reagan speeches. The timeline doesn’t make sense.
Richard Eberwein
July 9, 2024
- Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno says he learned English from watching Ronald Reagan’s speeches as a child, even though Reagan was not yet a national political figure and Moreno was five years old at the time.
- During an appearance on the “MVRed Podcast” in January 2022, Moreno claimed to have learned English from listening to Reagan’s speeches. When asked about who helped shape his political beliefs, Moreno cited conversations with his father, and speeches by Reagan which he claims to have learned English from.
- “I’d say my dad first. Reagan certainly, you know I learned English listening to Reagan’s speeches as a kid,” Moreno said. “He was very influential in my life politically.”
- During another podcast interview with Ohio Christian Alliance in October 2021, Moreno claimed he listened to Reagan when he started learning English.
- “One of the presidents I got to really know a lot was Reagan because that was my formative years,” Moreno said. “I was just learning English… This was a time that for me was so fortunate to have Ronald Reagan during those years for me.”
- Moreno moved to the United States with his family from Colombia in 1971, when he was about five years old. During an appearance at the Turning Point Action Conference in July 2023, Moreno himself said that he learned English “pretty quickly” after moving to the United States. In a separate radio interview from May 2021, Moreno said he learned English when he was five. Moreno’s parents and older siblings were also fluent or proficient in English at this time, making it extremely unlikely that Moreno substantially “learned English” from Reagan speeches when he was five.
- The Moreno campaign did not immediately respond for clarification on what speeches by Reagan he was watching while learning English at five years old.
- Reagan was also the governor of California at the time, but he had not yet become a national voice for the Republican Party. It wasn’t until his 1976 campaign that Reagan began to make regular radio and television appearances.
- And while Reagan had prominence as an actor and a Democrat-turned-Republican activist (he gave his popular “A Time for Choosing” speech in 1964 to promote Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign), he wasn’t a popular conservative figure until after he exchanged his governorship for a radio program in 1975.
- Russell Riley, co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program, told History in 2020 that after Reagan left office as governor in 1975, he developed “a radio presence in a way that really puts him in the public consciousness as a conservative voice in America.” Moreno was eight years old when Reagan started his radio show.
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