July 9, 2022
Another Biden false family claim
By James A. Nollet
Like many politicians, President Biden likes to support his polemic by illustrating his points with biographical stories about himself and his family. There is nothing wrong with that, until he starts to "make his good stories even gooder" by embellishing them with falsehoods.
For example — he was a coal miner; he marched for Civil Rights in the 1950s and even got arrested; he got arrested on a trip to South Africa to visit Nelson Mandela; he was a truck driver; his maternal grandfather was an All-American football player at Santa Clara University; he'd received a senatorial appointment to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965, etc.
There is a new lie that has now surfaced. It had skirted the body of public knowledge until July 6, when Brandon re-used it in a speech in Cleveland and altered an essential detail in order to suit the purposes of his speech.
Biden went to Cleveland to speak before a trade union audience about the American Rescue Plan's $90-billion bailout of these pension funds. Evidently, there are some 200 union pension funds that somehow, mysteriously have gone bankrupt. It's hardly shocking, given the long, sordid history of corrupt union officials looting these funds, but instead of locking up the persons responsible for this malfeasance, in his speech, Brandon blamed the pension funds' failures on unrelenting attacks by Republicans on the trade union movement. He proposes to reward the unions' mismanagement at best and outright theft at worst with $90 billion.
In speaking about the importance of restoring the integrity of these funds and how important such funds are to the peace of mind and "dignity" of workers who've genuinely worked long and hard for them, Brandon trotted out a family story that he has used on numerous occasions in the past. In the Cleveland version of the stump speech, Brandon grew up in a cheaply built house in Claymont, Delaware, which had thin walls separating the various rooms, and one night, he could hear his father thrashing about the room, unable to sleep. The following morning, he asked his mother why, and she replied that the day before, his father had received bad news from the company he worked for that they would no longer fund their...pension fund. Note that, because it is the altered detail that disables the entire story.
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