President Biden She faced a wave of criticism from media outlets and commentators on Friday for stretching the truth during a rare live interview with radio host Howard Stern.
During his interview with Stern, Biden touched on a number of topics, including Debate with former President Donald Trump Before the 2024 election and the time he was “arrested” at a Delaware desegregation protest as a teenager.
Some claims made by the President during this period hour long interviewHowever, he faced scrutiny from the national media and some individuals in the political arena, who have become accustomed to Biden’s habit of straying from the truth.
As he has in the past, Biden recounted during his interview with Stern what his mother reportedly told him about accepting her then-Senator Barack Obama’s An invitation to serve as his running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
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President Biden faced a wave of criticism from media outlets and commentators on Friday for exposing the truth during an interview with radio host Howard Stern. (Getty Images)
Biden recounted: “She said, ‘Remember when they were desegregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood… the suburb – and I told you – and there was a black family moving in there and there were people protesting; I told you. Told you not to go down there, and you went down, do you remember that? And you were arrested standing on the porch with a black family, and they brought you back?’ And I said, ‘Yes, Mom, I remember that.'”
New York Times, which Targeted at President Biden On Thursday, after he “actively and effectively” dodged questions from reporters during his first term in office, it was reported Friday that Biden “once again told the truth about being arrested at a Delaware desegregation protest as a teenager.” Appeared to be exposing.”
The Times said, “There is no evidence that he was ever arrested in a civil-rights protest.”
The New York Times on Friday said of one of Biden’s claims, “There is no evidence that he was ever arrested at a civil-rights protest.” (Kenna Betancur/ViewPress, Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
CNN also slammed Biden’s claim, saying in a fact check that “There is no evidence that Biden was ever arrested during a civil rights protest, as The Washington Post and PolitiFact found when they reported on this issue in 2022.” Looked into the claim – and Biden was arrested at least twice Told the story of his alleged presence at this particular Delaware protest without mentioning any arrests, instead claiming that police simply took him home that day Was.”
Biden also faced criticism from CNN earlier this week when he “revived a debunked story about his past” during a campaign event in Florida this week — his fictitious claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck. Were”.
Fact-checking the President’s claims, CNN wrote: “Biden has repeatedly embellished or invented biographical information. In 2021, he claimed during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: ‘I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,’ then added, ‘I got it. ‘ At a separate 2021 event, he told college students studying truck technology, ‘I used to drive tractor-trailers,’ adding, ‘I only did it for the summer, but I still got my license. Went.”
“Biden’s claim is false. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler,” the outlet said in his Tuesday comments.
Biden also faced criticism from individuals for promoting truth on social media, including Greg Price, a popular conservative X user and communications director for the State Freedom Caucus Network.
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price Many questionable comments noted Statements made by Biden during his interview with Stern, which he believes are “lies”, including saving the lives of “half a dozen” people during his previous tenure as a lifeguard and fighting for civil rights as a teenager Also includes a story told about his arrest during the protest. ,
President Biden speaks during a campaign event in Scranton, PA on April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Another questionable “lie” was Biden’s claim that he was “runner-up in state scoring” in football during his high school years.
Price’s post on social media also referenced claims made by Biden about receiving “lewd photographs” from women in the 1970s. His time as a senatorWhich he gave to the Secret Service.
Biden told Stern, “I’ve been put on a list of the ten most eligible bachelors… and a lot of lovely women… send very erotic photos, and I’ll turn them over to the Secret Service. I thought that Someone would think I was—” before changing subjects.
It is unclear how the Secret Service may have been involved. Senators do not receive Secret Service protection, and Biden did not receive Secret Service protection until 2008, when he elected vice president,
Others also took aim at the president over his comments on Stern’s show.
Conservative commentator Rita Panahi said, “Another day, another Biden lie… at least this one didn’t involve anyone being eaten by cannibals.” Wrote in a post on X,
Fox News’ “The Five” co-host Jeanine Pirro also objected to Biden’s “lies,” questioning Friday how Biden can debate if “he can’t even keep his lies straight.”
Earlier this month, during a visit to a war memorial near his hometown in Pennsylvania, Biden faced criticism for saying that his uncle was eaten by cannibals after his plane. Was shot during World War II.
“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He volunteered because no one else could do it. He was shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at that time,” Biden said. ” Time. “They never recovered his body.”
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later accepted Biden’s maternal uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, whom he calls “Uncle Bossie”, died in World War II when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean, but he confirmed that he was not eaten by cannibals, as alleged. Biden made the suggestion on two separate occasions during his visit to the state.
