'I wasn't arrested. I was stopped': Biden admits he fabricated details of South Africa story
by Mike Brest
| February 28, 2020 11:30 AM
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted that he was not once arrested in South Africa after claiming he was at multiple campaign events.
On at least three occasions this month, Biden said he was "arrested with our U.N. ambassador" while trying to meet South African leader Nelson Mandela in the 1970s, prompting the now-former ambassador, Andrew Young, to refute the story.
Biden personally acknowledged that his rendition of the story was not accurate during a Friday interview on CNN. "I wasn't arrested. I was stopped," he said as he again recounted traveling to South Africa with members of the Congressional Black Caucus disembarking from the plane.
"They led me off first and moved me in a direction totally different. I turned around, and everybody, all the entire black delegation was going another way. I said I’m not going to go in that door that says, 'White only,'" Biden said. The former vice president said he was told that he was not allowed to go with the other members of Congress. Biden was a senator from Delaware at the time.
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