This morning the Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler called out Joe Biden for lying about several of his personal stories at events he’s attended as president.
The lies from Biden are related to stories he’s told about his house fire, the Amtrak conductor and the gay men in suits kissing.
Here’s a few excerpts from the article:
“But throughout his career — most famously in his first presidential campaign, in the 1988 election cycle — Biden’s propensity to exaggerate or embellish tales about his life led to doubts about his truthfulness.”
Sometimes the stories turn out to be largely true, such as the one about a confrontation as a 19-year-old lifeguard with a gang leader named Corn Pop. But others fall short. As president, Biden has continued a tradition of embellishing his personal tales in ways that cannot be verified or are directly refuted by contemporary accounts.
The tale of the fire in his house
At least six times as president, mostly recently in comments to Hurricane Idalia victims Wednesday, Biden has exaggerated the extent of a fire that occurred at his house in 2004.
“And I know, having had a house burn down with my wife in it — she got out safely, God willing — that having a significant portion of it burn, I can tell: 10 minutes makes a hell of a difference,” Biden said at an infrastructure event in November 2021.
The contemporary news accounts in the Wilmington News Journal and the Associated Press are much less dramatic.
“Biden’s house on Barley Mill Road was reported hit by lightning at 8:16 a.m., emergency officials said,” the News Journal reported. “There were no injuries and firefighters kept the fire contained to one room.” The article added that “firefighters from Cranston Heights, Talleyville, Elsmere, Mill Creek and Hockessin fire companies arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house.”
Cranston Heights Fire Co. Chief George Lamborn told the newspaper the flames did not spread from the kitchen. “Luckily, we got it pretty early,” he said. “The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
The tale of the gay men in suits kissing
Three times this year — and at least seven times since 2014 — Biden has told a version, most recently on Aug. 10, of a story about words his father supposedly spoke after a teenage Biden saw two well-dressed men in suits kiss each other in downtown Wilmington in the early 1960s.
“Joey, it’s simple. They love each other,” Biden’s father is said to have remarked.
Biden’s story has evolved over time. In 2014, in a New York Times article on his evolution on same-sex marriage, he was the father in the story, speaking to one of his sons. In the article, Biden’s father figures in a different story on a similar theme — forcing a friend to apologize after insulting a gay couple at a Delaware beach. But in 1987, Biden told the Los Angeles Times yet another version — that his father had lectured him after he tried to put off a visit to a gay couple who were strong supporters of the senator and shared an apartment at a Delaware beach.
They also discuss Biden’s lies about the role he played in the civil rights movement and something about a “heroic uncle and the family hospital”. Either way, Biden lies all the time and it’s nice of them to expose it after so much time. However don’t expect the garbage media to touch it. Biden is campaigning for president and they want to make sure their guy wins.