President Biden twice hinted Wednesday that his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea after his plane crashed during World War II — military records show the plane was over the Pacific Ocean. This is despite the fact that he has been reported to have disappeared.
“It was shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time,” Biden first told reporters before boarding Air Force One as he departed from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“They never recovered his body, but when I went there the government came back and inspected it and found part of the plane.”
After arriving in Pittsburgh, the 81-year-old president told United Steelworkers members the same story.
“He was shot down in New Guinea, and his body was never found, because there were actually a lot of cannibals in that part of New Guinea,” Biden said.
The Pentagon’s Defense Prisoner of War and MIA Accounting Office has announced that the Finnegan plane was actually lost in the open ocean.
“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, causing the nose of the plane to crash violently into the water.” military account Say.
“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. An aerial search the next day found no missing aircraft or missing. No trace of the crew was found.
Biden made the remarks while attacking former President Donald Trump for allegedly failing to visit a war cemetery outside Paris during his term in office.
“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.
The controversial account of Trump’s remarks was referenced in an article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who said 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. ”
documentation appeared in 2020 It debunked Mr. Goldberg’s account by showing that the Navy had prevented a helicopter visit to the cemetery due to bad weather. Before returning to the United States from his visit, President Trump spoke in the rain without an umbrella at another military cemetery near Paris.
Biden often tells personal anecdotes that turn out to be untrue, many clearly aimed at connecting with viewers.
Biden has shared debunked stories about Amtrak conductors at least 13 times during his presidency, and in 2022 claimed that his uncle, Frank Biden, won a Purple Heart — even though his explanation Mr. Biden chose to attend the Naval Academy, which he has twice said was the case, even though the details of the matter make it virtually impossible, but there is no documentation to support that claim.
In 2021, Biden said he “spent time” and “went there” at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, following the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history that killed 11 people. He told Jewish leaders that he remembered it.
The synagogue said Biden never visited, and the White House later claimed Biden was considering calling the synagogue’s rabbi in 2019.
