White House Response to Biden Naval Appointment Lie Makes Things Worse

On Friday, at the U.S. Naval Academy graduation, Joe Biden claimed at the start of his remarks that he had received an appointment to the Academy from J. Caleb Boggs in 1965, the man he later ran against for senator in 1972.

Before I begin my speech, a thought crossed my mind as I was told the Class of ‘72 is here. I was appointed to the Academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972. (Laughter.) Never planned it that way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running. He was a fine man, and his name was J. Caleb Boggs.

I didn’t come to the Academy because I wanted to be a football star. And you had a guy named Staubach and Bellino here. So I went to Delaware.

As I pointed out, that was a ridiculous claim because Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965. Not to mention that Roger Staubach also graduated from the Academy in 1965 and Joe Bellino in 1961. The timing just made no sense. He also received five student deferments in the 60s and allegedly was “unfit” because of asthma in 1968.

He even claimed during the graduation speech that Boggs brought up the appointment during their Senate debate and said that if Joe had accepted the appointment, he wouldn’t be having to deal with him in the race now.

Indeed, Joe Biden — the man who is always pumping himself up — has never mentioned it before. Biden is constantly lying about things to pander to whatever audience he’s in front of. It’s a bit scary that he seems to live in an alternate reality where he just makes up things out of whole cloth that have no basis in reality. That’s the person we have in charge now. But imagine lying to Naval graduates about a Naval appointment. As I said, what kind of person does that?

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