OAN’s Avril Elfie
5:05 PM – Wednesday, April 17, 2024
President Joe Biden has twice suggested that his uncle may have been eaten by cannibals after his plane crashed in New Guinea during World War II.
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On Wednesday, Biden implied that his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was eaten by cannibals, even though military records show the plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
“He was shot down in an area that had a lot of cannibals at the time,” Biden initially told reporters after visiting a war memorial bearing his uncle’s name in Scranton, Pennsylvania. . “No bodies were recovered, but the government conducted an investigation.”When I went there, they inspected and found part of the plane. ”
During a visit to Pittsburgh to give a speech on steel tariffs, 46 peopleth The president told the same story.
“He was shot down in New Guinea, but his body was never found, because there were a lot of real cannibals in that part of New Guinea,” Biden told United Steelworkers members.
According to the Pentagon’s Defense Prisoner of War and MIA Accounting Office, the Finnegan plane actually went missing in the Pacific Ocean on May 14.th1944.
“For unknown reasons, the plane was forced to make a forced landing off the northern coast of New Guinea. Both engines failed at low altitude and the nose of the plane crashed violently into the water,” the military report said. . “Three men were unable to escape from the sinking ship and were lost in the crash. One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. The next day’s aerial search revealed the missing aircraft and No trace of the crew was found.
While recounting this process, Mr. Biden called the people buried at the war cemetery outside Paris in 2018 “sucks” and “losers,” and criticized Donald Trump, who is said to have neglected to visit the war cemetery outside Paris during his term in office. – Attacked Mr. Trump.
“A sucker and a loser? This man is not worthy to be my son’s commander in chief,” Biden said in Scranton after President Trump “refused to go to the Veterans Memorial in Paris.” Said in Pittsburgh.
This comment is taken from the following article Atlantic’Jeffrey Goldberg said President Trump “blamed the rain on his last-minute decision” [not to visit the cemetery], stating that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service would not take him there. Neither claim was true. ”
But in 2020, evidence emerged that contradicted Goldberg’s story, proving that the Navy misjudged bad weather and prevented the helicopter from accessing the cemetery.
Before leaving for the United States, President Trump spoke in the rain at another military cemetery near Paris without an umbrella.
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