Biden Caught LYING To Diplomats About Him Once Being Shot At Overseas — Veterans Outed Him For Makin

[mystery-ak]

Biden Caught LYING To Diplomats About Him Once Being Shot At Overseas — Veterans Outed Him For Making Same Claim Before

by A.M. Smith 19 minutes ago   

Lyin’ Joe just can’t help himself, or maybe he’s just having a little Alzheimer moment.

President Biden has revived an old claim that previously got him in hot water, telling state department employees Thursday that he was “shot at” overseas.

Remarking on the courage of the diplomatic aides he was speaking to, Biden commented, “I’ve been with some of you when we’ve been shot at.”

The claim was similar to one he made during a CNN Democratic primary debate in 2007 when he said he had been “shot at” in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Pressure at the time from veterans caused Biden to walk back his claim, changing his recollection to having been “near where a shot landed.”

Biden, who has an established reputation of gaffes and exaggerations, is facing renewed scrutiny for his state department remarks.

“Veterans don’t like it when people mischaracterize their service, people who overstate what happens to them,” said the former legislative director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Patrick Campbell. “We have names for them.”

Biden has seen similar criticisms, after plagiarism accusations derailed his1988 presidential campaign and he was mockedfora2008 claim to be a “hard coal miner.”

https://en-volve.com/2021/02/05/biden-caught-lying-to-diplomats-about-him-once-being-shot-at-overseas-veterans-outed-him-for-making-same-claim-before/

[PeteS in CA]

Making up false and ludicrous stories seem to be part of what Biden is. The problem is, he believes his ridiculous false yarns.

[mountaineer]

Blast from the past:

... Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.

On a campaign stop in New Hampshire in 1987, a voter asked Biden where he attended law school and where he placed in his class. Biden lashed out at the man angrily, making a series of claims that were not true:

    BIDEN: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class, and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits. And I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like Frank.

It turned out that Biden did not receive a full academic scholarship, but a half scholarship based on financial need. He did not end up in the top half of his class, but near the very bottom. There is no record of him winning the moot court competition. He did not receive the outstanding student award at the University of Delaware. And he graduated with only one degree. ...

The Federalist, 9/18/2020