President Joe Biden has long had trouble distinguishing fact from fiction. And when dealing with facts, the 81-year-old Democrat often gets them wrong.
This week, Biden claimed that his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., was eaten by cannibals. It is unclear whose story the aging president appropriated on behalf of his uncle, but official U.S. government records do not corroborate the story Biden has chosen to tell at least twice.
Biden spoke to reporters Tuesday at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pennsylvania.
Said: “Ambrose Finnegan — we called him ‘Uncle Bossy’ — he — he was shot down. He was in the Army Air Forces before there was an Air Force. He was He was flying a single-engine plane over New Guinea, and he volunteered.”He was shot down in an area of New Guinea that was populated by cannibals at the time. ”
“They never recovered his body,” Biden added. “But when I went there, the government went back and inspected it and found parts of the plane and things like that.”
according to Biden’s uncle was flying a plane to the Pentagon’s POW/MIA Accounting Office. twin engine May 14, 1944, Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber. The president suggested it had been shot down, but government records say the plane was “forced to make a forced landing in the ocean off the north coast” for “unknown reasons.”
Official records state that “Three people 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. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the missing crew.”
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report The U.S. government’s records of missing service members “do not attribute Finnegan’s death to hostilities and do not indicate that cannibalism was a contributing factor.”
At a campaign event earlier in the day, Biden said:
talk to workers At the United Steelworkers headquarters in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In a mostly mumbled speech, Biden said his uncle was “shot down in New Guinea, and the reason their bodies were never found is because it used to be there — there were really cannibals in that part of New Guinea.” That’s because there are so many species.”
In both cases, the anecdote’s apparent purpose was to disparage former President Donald Trump.
“And what I was thinking about as I was standing there,” Biden said when speaking about his uncle at the airport. [where Finnegan was memorialized] When President Trump refused to go to the veterans memorial in Paris and called veterans a bunch of “sucks” and “losers.”
This claim is also baseless.
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shown There is no audio or video evidence that President Trump referred to fallen soldiers as “sucks” or “losers.” There are also no “records, presidential memos or other documents” to support the claims made in a September 2020 article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.
His outward appearance is baseless articleGoldberg — Democrat endorsed by The New York Times shown In 2016, it “shaped The Atlantic’s recent editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate,” he said, citing “people with direct knowledge of the day’s debates.”
Trump responded to the allegations by saying, “I’m willing to swear that I never said those things about our fallen heroes. No one respects them more than they do. No animal, no one.” Would you say such a thing?”
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who were close to President Trump at the time, suggested that this claim was false.
In effect, by crossing the two threads on Tuesday in hopes of hurting his political opponents, Biden only demonstrated a loose grasp of the truth, one that seems to have loosened considerably in recent years.
Biden spoke in February about a recent conversation he had with Francois Mitterrand. The problem, rather than Biden’s suggestion that Mitterrand was German, was that the former French president had been dead since 1996.
The supposed Ghost Whisperer has repeatedly thrilled his followers with stories of his improbable conversations with Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri, which apparently took place 20 years after the man retired. Apparently this took place one year after his death.
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praise Indiana Congressman Jackie Walorski, who died in 2022, and Biden I called out to her during the speech. “Senator Jackie — is she here? Where’s Jackie? — I think she was meant to be here,” he said in Washington.
Last year, Biden
Ukraine and Iraq confused Twice in 24 hours. Given that the leader of the free world apparently confused his own sister with his wife, I guess neither country took that to heart.
At the time, it was treated as just a case of brazen plagiarism, but Biden also
I got my life story wrong These are the words of former British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock when he ran for president in 1988.
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