President Biden was campaigning in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Wednesday when he recounted a story about his grandfather being “shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals” and then somehow managed to connect it to a debunked story about Donald Trump.
(Yeah, it’s as weird as it sounds.)
Watch the clip below:
Biden tells a story about his grandfather being "shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals" before recounting the debunked "suckers and losers" hoax for the second time in less than a day pic.twitter.com/KufaTlmCz1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 17, 2024
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn't shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/H6GhK0pPSu
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
The “suckers” and “losers” comment Biden is referring to was from a 2020 story in The Atlantic that claimed Donald Trump referred to fallen soldiers as “suckers” and “losers.”
Trump’s advisors at the time pushed back on the story:
I was with POTUS in France, with Sarah, and have been at his side throughout it all. Complete lies by “anonymous sources” that were “dropped” just as he begins to campaign (and surge). A disgraceful attempt to smear POTUS, 60 days before the Presidential Election! Disgusting!! https://t.co/mQfCNUlyZm
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) September 4, 2020
