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mystery-ak:
White House does damage control after Biden suggests uncle was eaten by cannibals
By
Christian Datoc
April 18, 2024 1:07 pm
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre danced around questions on Thursday about President Joe Biden apparently “embellishing” the story of his uncle’s death and going so far as suggesting that he was eaten by cannibals after being shot down in World War II.

Biden is on the final day of a three-day campaign tour of Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, in Pittsburgh, the president aimed to critique his 2024 Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, by recounting the death of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, a U.S. Air Force pilot who was killed while serving in World War II.

“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden said before knocking Trump for referring to World War II veterans as “suckers and losers.”

“They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane,” he continued.

Reporters traveling with the president to Philadelphia on Thursday asked Jean-Pierre about Biden’s recounting of Finnegan’s death, which does not appear to match the Pentagon record.

“You saw the president. He was incredibly proud of his uncle’s service in uniform. You saw him at the war memorial. It was incredibly emotional and important to him,” she responded. “The president highlighted his uncle’s story as he made the case for honoring our sacred commitment to equip those we send to war and to take care of them and their families when they come home, and, as he reiterated, that the last thing American veterans are suckers or losers, and he wanted to make that clear.”

Still, reporters pressed Jean-Pierre on why Biden opted for “embellishing the story,” but the press secretary answered that she didn’t “have anything beyond what [she] just laid out.”

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PeteS in CA:
Since Kewpie-Doll Karine couldn't/wouldn't find it, here's what actually happened, https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzWi4EAE . LIEden's uncle was in an A-20 Havoc that lost both engines - no help from a Zero or Oscar - and crashed into the ocean. One person on the A-20 survived and returned, the other 3 did not and did not become Cannibal Chow.

mountaineer:
His grandfather also was Ambrose Finnegan, which may have confused the issue. Either way, he is - as usual - lying. It's really tiresome.

Hoodat:

--- Quote from: mystery-ak on April 18, 2024, 05:26:06 pm ---“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time”

--- End quote ---

He was a passenger aboard the aircraft, not a member of the crew, and definitely not the pilot.  It was a twin-engine plane, not a single-engine plane.  The plane was not shot down.  The plane crashed over water, where not only were there no cannibals, there was no New Guinea either.  Lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.

catfish1957:
Eat a Biden?

Even the Donner Party would have chosen starvation.

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