President Biden confronted a wave of criticism on Friday — from media shops and commentators — for stretching the reality throughout a uncommon reside interview with radio host Howard Stern.
During his interview with Stern, Biden spoke about an array of topics, together with a debate with former President Donald Trump forward of the 2024 election and the time he “got arrested” as a youngster at a Delaware desegregation protest.
Some of the claims made by the president through the hour-long interview, nevertheless, confronted scrutiny from the nationwide media and sure people within the political realm who’ve change into accustomed to Biden’s behavior of straying from the reality.
As he has accomplished previously, Biden recounted throughout his interview with Stern what his mom had supposedly informed him about accepting then-Sen. Barack Obama’s invitation to function his operating mate within the 2008 presidential election.
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Biden recounted: “She said, ‘Remember when they were desegregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood … suburbia — and I told you — and there was a Black family moving in and there was — people were down there protesting; I told you not to go down there, and you went down, remember that? And you got arrested standing on the porch with a Black family? And they brought you back, the police?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, Mom, I remember that.’”
The New York Times, which took intention at President Biden on Thursday for “actively and effectively” avoiding journalists’ questions throughout his first time period in workplace, reported Friday that Biden “appeared to once again stretch the truth about being arrested at a Delaware desegregation protest as a teenager.”
“There is no evidence that he was ever arrested at a civil-rights protest,” the Times added.
CNN additionally piled on Biden’s declare, noting in a reality verify that there’s “no evidence Biden ever got arrested during a civil rights protest, as the Washington Post and PolitiFact found when they looked into this claim in 2022 – and Biden has at least twice told the story of his supposed presence at this particular Delaware protest without mentioning any arrest, instead claiming that the police merely took him home that day.”
Biden additionally confronted criticism from CNN earlier this week after he “revived a debunked tale about his past — his fictional claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck,” throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Florida this week.
Fact-checking the president’s declare, CNN wrote: “Biden has repeatedly embellished or invented biographical tidbits. In 2021, he claimed during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: ‘I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,’ then added, ‘I got to.’ At a separate 2021 event, he told college students studying truck technology, ‘I used to drive a tractor-trailer,’ adding, ‘I only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway.'”
“Biden’s claim remains untrue. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler,” the outlet added of his Tuesday remarks.
Biden additionally confronted backlash for embellishing the reality from people on social media, together with Greg Price, a preferred conservative X person and the communications director for the State Freedom Caucus Network.
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Price famous quite a few questionable remarks made by Biden throughout his interview with Stern that he believes are “lies,” together with a story he informed about saving “half a dozen” lives throughout his previous tenure as a lifeguard and the arrest he suffered amid civil rights protests when he was a youngster.
Another suspected “lie” was Biden’s declare that he was “runner-up in state scoring” in soccer throughout his highschool years.
Price’s submit on social media additionally referenced a declare made by Biden about receiving “salacious pictures” from ladies within the Seventies throughout his time as a senator, which he gave to the Secret Service.
“I got put in that ten most eligible bachelors list … and a lot of lovely women… would send very salacious pictures, and I’d just give them to the Secret Service. I thought somebody would think I was —,” Biden informed Stern earlier than shifting matters.
It’s unclear how the Secret Service would have been concerned. Senators don’t obtain Secret Service safety, and Biden did not obtain Secret Service safety till 2008, when he was elected vice chairman.
Others additionally took intention on the president for his remarks on Stern’s present.
“Another day, another Biden lie … at least no one got eaten by cannibals in this one,” conservative commentator Rita Panahi wrote in a submit on X.
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro, co-host of “The Five,” additionally weighed in on Biden’s “lies,” questioning Friday how Biden can debate if “he can’t even keep his lies straight.”
Earlier this month, throughout a go to to a conflict memorial close to his hometown in Pennsylvania, Biden confronted criticism for showing to indicate that his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his airplane was shot down throughout World War II.
“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden stated on the time. “They never recovered his body.”
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later acknowledged that Biden’s maternal uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, whom he refers to as “Uncle Bosie,” did die in WWII when his airplane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, however confirmed he was not eaten by cannibals, as Biden appeared to counsel on two separate events throughout his go to to the state.