Joe Biden Slips Up Again: Tells Tale Debunked 37 Years Ago
By Mike Fishmore | April 20, 2024
Fundamental disregard
President Joe Biden has been exposed for making a false statement once again.
Investigations by The New York Times and The New York Post revealed that Biden's mother's family and his father had college connections, discrediting his repeated assertion.
Repeated assertion
He embodies a troubling combination of traits: a lack of recollection of the truth and a fundamental disregard for it.
Repeating a claim
He is repeating a claim during a speech in Wisconsin that had already been debunked 37 years ago.
Attend college
The claim in question is about him being the first person in his family to attend college. “I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college," Biden said.
Playing football
In a clip from 2022, Biden mentioned his grandfather playing football in college, contrasting with a previous claim that he was the first in his family to attend college.
Longstanding lie
This discrepancy highlights a longstanding lie that has resurfaced, with historical evidence showing that both sides of Biden's family had college ties.
Uncredited speech
The 1987 New York Times report was part of a broader exposé that also uncovered Biden's history of uncredited speech borrowing and plagiarism during his time in law school.
False claim
Had the false claim about attending college been a recent occurrence, it might have been dismissed as just another in a series of Biden's slip-ups. However, given that he was already caught lying when he was a 45-year-old senator, it is not reasonable to attribute this pattern solely to his current cognitive state.
Cognitive decline
It is not credible to suggest that someone in their 40s is experiencing cognitive decline. What can be concluded is that Biden has a history of being untruthful and continues to exhibit this behavior.
Habitual behavior
The repetition of the false claim about being a first-generation college student could be interpreted as a manifestation of either cognitive decline or simply Biden's habitual behavior.
