At this point, I think I’ve lost count of how many tall tales that Joe Biden has told about his life.
He’s a serial fabulist — saying anything that comes into his head to pander to his audience, to puff himself up or to attack his political opponents. We’ve seen it again and again, as he tells us about his black, Puerto Rican, cilvil rights activist, truck driving background.
He’s in Pennsylvania for a few days to campaign. As he was leaving Scranton to go to Pittsburgh, reporters managed to get in some questions. That’s when he told the story about his uncle landing in an area with the cannibals. Now, we all know there are going to be problems with it, but here it is.
Biden tells a story about his grandfather being "shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals" before recounting the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax for the second time in less than a day pic.twitter.com/KufaTlmCz1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
He said his uncle, Lt. Ambrose Finnegan Jr. was “shot down” while flying over New Guinea on a mission he volunteered for because “someone couldn’t make it.” He got shot down in an area where there was a lot of cannibals, Biden said. He explained they never recovered his uncle’s body but they did recover parts of the plane.
Biden said he was thinking about former President Trump and how he allegedly refused to go to a “memorial for veterans in Paris” and “said they were a bunch of suckers and losers.”
Let’s start with the last lie first. The story that was that Trump didn’t go to a cemetery and made that comment but it was roundly debunked.
But the story Biden told about his uncle is wrong in virtually every respect, according to the records of the time.
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn't shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/xrn1WuAbTh
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member, not a reconnaissance pilot. He was a passenger on the plane that went down. It was not shot down. The plane went down in the water, so there probably weren’t cannibals out in the middle of the ocean. Finnegan went down with the plane and his body was never recovered. One crew member was found and rescued.
Why would he tell a story like this and throw in cannibals? That’s beyond creepy. What the heck does he want people to think here? He’s implying his uncle was eaten by cannibals. He said it again in Pittsburgh.
Biden just told this story again for the second time today: He claimed his uncle was a pilot, was shot down over Guinea and eaten by cannibals.
Ambrose Finnegan was a passenger on a plane that was ditched due to engine failure and he drowned in the ocean. https://t.co/zpeRDGVD6g pic.twitter.com/ilCuxjsakq
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2024
Once again he’s trying to use a false story about a family member to try to attack Trump for something he never even said. In the past he’s suggested that his son Beau was killed in battle and he mentions him again here.
