President Biden stopped in Pittsburgh on Wednesday and told members of the United Steelworkers union that his uncle disappeared in a region of New Guinea inhabited by cannibals after a plane crash during World War II. Ta.
Biden told the steelworkers that his mother’s four brothers volunteered to join the military after D-Day. One such uncle was Ambrose Finnegan, better known by his nickname Bosie.
“People say he was a hell of an athlete as a kid,” Biden said, adding that he served in the Army Air Corps, which was established before the Air Force came along. “He was flying a single-engine plane as a reconnaissance over a combat zone and was shot down over New Guinea. His body was never found because there were actually a lot of cannibals in that area of New Guinea. ”. ”
The president spoke to reporters earlier in the day before boarding Air Force One and heading to Pittsburgh.
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President Biden claimed Wednesday that his uncle went missing after his World War II plane crashed in an area infested with cannibals in New Guinea. (AP Photo/Damien Dovarganes)
He told reporters he wanted to see how his uncle would be remembered at the memorial for those who lost their lives in World War II.
“When D-Day happened, the next Monday, all four of my mother’s brothers went down and volunteered to join the military,” Biden said. “Ambrose Finnegan, we called him Uncle Bosie, he got shot down. He was in the Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force.
“They didn’t recover his body, but when I went there, the government came back and inspected it and found parts of the plane,” he added.
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According to the site, on May 14, 1944, a plane carrying three crew members and one passenger, identified as Finnegan, departed Momote Airfield on Los Negros Island for a courier flight to New Guinea.
“For unknown reasons, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing off the northern coast of New Guinea,” the report said. “Both engines failed at low altitude and the nose of the aircraft hit the water hard.”
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The report also said three men were lost in the crash after failing to escape from the sinking ship, but one crew member survived and was rescued by a barge. The report said Mr Finnegan was not involved in any of the remains recovered from the area after the war, which remains unexplained.
Biden is no stranger to making dubious claims. Speaking in Wisconsin earlier this week, he claimed to be the “first” person in his family to “go to college.”
“Like many people in this audience, I was the first in my family to go to college,” Biden told the audience. But less than two years ago, during his speech in Pennsylvania, Biden told the audience that his grandfather played college football. In his statement, he said “Grandpa Finnegan” was an “All-American football player” at Santa Clara.
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President Biden has been caught embellishing stories for decades. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Years earlier, when running for president in 1987, Biden exaggerated his educational background by boasting that he graduated in the “top half” of his class while berating reporters on the campaign trail.
“I think my IQ is much higher than yours,” Biden told reporters in New Hampshire at the time. “I went to law school on a full scholarship, and I was the only one in my class with a full scholarship.
“During my first year of law school, I decided I didn’t want to go to law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class,” he said. “And I decided to stay and went back to law school and actually ended up in the top half of my class.”
He later admitted that he graduated 76th out of a class of 85 students.
“I didn’t graduate law school in the top half of my class, and my memory of this was inaccurate,” he told the New York Times.
“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science,” he said. “My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors. I said ‘three,’ but I should have said ‘two.'”
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The outlet noted that Biden has one bachelor’s degree in history and one in political science.
Since then, Biden has told a number of stories that are considered exaggerations. Mainstream media outlets such as The Washington Post have criticized him, including the paper’s top fact-checker, Glenn Kessler.
Among the stories Kessler covered were Biden’s claim that when he was a teenager, he and his father witnessed two men in suits kissing in public; This includes how he was arrested while trying to meet Nelson Mandela, and how he made arrangements to meet Nelson Mandela as vice president. His uncle was to receive the Purple Heart award he was owed but never received. His uncle died in 1999, long before Biden became vice president.
Mr. Biden repeated his false claim last year that his home burned down in an effort to connect people who lost their homes to the wildfires that tore through Maui.
“I don’t want to compare hardships, but Jill and I both understand a little bit of what it’s like to lose your home,” Biden said. “Many years ago, 15 years ago now, I was doing a ‘press conference’ in Washington… Lightning struck a small lake outside my house. It wasn’t a lake, it was a large pond. The lightning struck a power line. , it fell right under the house…into the air conditioner duct.
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“Long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat,” the president added.
According to a 2004 Associated Press report archived by LexisNexis, lightning struck the Bidens’ home, causing “a small fire that was contained to the kitchen.” Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 20 minutes and prevent the flames from spreading beyond the kitchen, the report said.
Fox News Digital’s Jessica Chasmar, Gabriel Hayes, Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Joe Schoffstall and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.
