Biden retold story about fire that started at his Delaware home years ago
Some Lahaina residents on Maui blasted President Biden’s comments during his visit to the island Monday after deadly wildfires left a trail of devastation earlier this month, with one resident labeling some of his language as “tone-deaf” and another writing off the visit as a “multimillion-dollar photo-op” during their Tuesday appearance on “Fox & Friends First.”
Among Biden’s comments under scrutiny, he compared the ravaging flames to a fire that started at his home in Delaware 15 years ago, retelling a story in which he said the fire “destroyed a significant portion” of his residence.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” Biden said. “Years ago now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press’ … lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake, a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home into the … air condition ducts.”