He was almost the Democratic Party candidate…
During a campaign stop for Kamala Harris in Pittsburg, PA over the holiday weekend, President Joe Biden told an eyebrow-raising story about his grandfather and a roaming gang called the “Molly Maguires” who beat mining foremen.
…it’s every bit as strange as it sounds.
“I remember when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania,” Biden told the audience. “And I remember they talked about – when they’d run against him in 1906 – they said, ‘Guess what? He’s a Molly Maguire.’”
“A lot of the English owned the coal mines and what they did was they really beat the hell out of the mostly Catholic population in the mines. Not a joke,” Biden continued. “But there was a group they called the Molly Maguires. And Molly Maguires, if they found out the foreman was taking advantage of an individual, they would literally kill him. Not a joke. And they would bring his body up and put him on the doorstep of his family.”
A visibly uncomfortable Kamala Harris nodded along.
“Kind of crude, but I gotta admit they accused my great-grandfather of being a Molly Maguire – he wasn’t, but we were so damn disappointed,” Biden told the audience before assuring them, “That was a joke. That was a joke.”
Watch Biden’s story below:
Cognitively impaired Joe Biden tells a weird story about how his grandfather was accused of being a "Molly Maguire" while running for political office in 1906.
Kamala spent 3.5 years claiming that this guy is perfectly fit mentally for the job as president. pic.twitter.com/DVDq4w3tWw
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 2, 2024
