President Biden faced a wave of criticism from the media and commentators on Friday for stretching the truth in a rare live interview with radio host Howard Stern.
In his interview with Stern, Biden talked about his debate with former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2024 election, and when he was “arrested” as a teenager at a desegregation protest in Delaware. He talked about various topics such as.
But some of the claims the president made in the hour-long interview drew scrutiny from some in the national media and political circles accustomed to Biden’s habit of straying from the truth.
As in previous years, Mr. Biden spoke in his interview with Mr. Stern about what his mother allegedly told him about accepting the Senate seat at the time. Barack Obama’s invitation to be his running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
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President Biden faced a wave of criticism from news outlets and commentators on Friday for stretching the truth in an interview with radio host Howard Stern. (Getty Images)
Mr. Biden said: “She said, ‘Remember when Lynfield was desegregated, this neighborhood…the suburbs–and as I said–black families moved in and people… They were protesting. I told you guys, don’t come down. Do you remember going there and standing on the porch with a black family? I said, “Yes, Mom, I remember that.”
On Thursday, the New York Times criticized President Biden for “aggressively and effectively” dodging questions from journalists during his first term in office, and on Friday said that Biden “was the first person to speak at a desegregation protest in Delaware. It appears that he is once again exaggerating the truth about his arrest.” As a teenager. ”
The paper added: “There is no evidence that he was arrested in the civil rights movement.”
On Friday, the New York Times reported on one of Biden’s claims: “There is no evidence he was arrested for civil rights protests.” (Kena Betancourt/VIEWpress, Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
CNN also reiterated Biden’s claims, noting in a fact check that, “As The Washington Post and PolitiFact discovered when they investigated this claim in 2022, Biden was arrested during a civil rights protest.” There is no evidence that he was arrested, and Mr. Biden has been arrested at least twice.” He did not mention his arrest, instead telling the story of his alleged participation in the Delaware protest and claiming that police only took him home that day. ”
Biden also “rehashed debunked stories about his past, making a fictitious claim that he once drove an 18-wheeler” during a campaign event in Florida this week. , and faced criticism from CNN earlier this week.
fact-checking the president’s claims, CNN wrote: “Biden has repeatedly embellished or made up biographical nonsense. In 2021, while touring a Mack Trucks facility, he claimed, ‘I was driving an 18-wheeler, dude.’ At another event in 2021, he told college students studying truck technology, “I used to drive a tractor-trailer,” and added, “I used to drive a tractor-trailer.” “I only drove part of the way, but I got my license anyway,” he added.
“Biden’s claims remain false. There is no evidence that he drove an 18-wheeler,” the paper added of Tuesday’s remarks.
Biden also faced backlash on social media for misrepresenting the truth from individuals, including Greg Price, a popular conservative X user and communications director for the National Freedom Caucus Network.
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price pointed out many questionable statements Biden made statements during his interview with Stern that he believes are “lies,” including that he claimed the lives of “six” people during his past stint as a lifeguard. It includes stories about being saved and being arrested during the civil rights movement as a teenager. .
President Biden speaks at a campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Another suspected “lie” is Biden’s claim that he was “second in the state in scoring” in football during his high school days.
Mr. Price’s social media post also addressed Mr. Biden’s claim that he received “indecent photos” from women in the 1970s while he was a senator and provided them to the Secret Service.
“I was put on that list of 10 most eligible bachelors…and a lot of lovely women…sent me photos so raunchy that I just passed it on to the Secret Service. Someone… I thought you would think I was—” Biden told Stern before changing the subject.
It is unclear how the Secret Service became involved. Senators do not have Secret Service protection, and Biden did not have Secret Service protection until 2008, when he was elected vice president.
Some criticized the president’s comments on Stern’s show.
“Another day, another Biden lie…at least this time no one got eaten by cannibals,” conservative commentator Rita Panahi said. I wrote it in X’s post.
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro, co-host of “The Five,” also weighed in on Biden’s “lies,” asking Friday how they can debate Biden if he “can’t even correct his own lies.” I wondered if that was the case.
Earlier this month, Biden faced criticism during a visit to a war memorial near his home state of Pennsylvania when he appeared to imply that his uncle was eaten by cannibals after a flight. It was shot down during World War II.
“He was flying a single-engine plane, flying reconnaissance over New Guinea. He volunteered because no one else was available. He was shot down in New Guinea at the time, in an area where there were a lot of cannibals,” Biden said. Stated. time. “They never recovered his body.”
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later said that Biden’s maternal uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, whom he called “Uncle Bossy,” died in World War II when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean. He admitted that he had indeed died, but that he had not been eaten by cannibals. Biden appears to have hinted at this on two separate occasions during his visit to the state.
