According to the NY Post, President Joe Biden once again falsely described the circumstances behind his son Beau’s death, claiming that his firstborn died during the Iraq war when in fact the 46-year-old succumbed to brain cancer in 2015 at the Walter Reed military hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
Biden has said in the past that he decided not to run for president in 2016 because of Beau’s passing.
While Beau’s death certainly must have been traumatic for Biden—he’d already lost a daughter and wife in a 1972 car accident that left sons Beau and Hunter injured—it does not excuse Joe’s continued mangling of the truth. The Post reports the president made an informal visit with US Marines at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan last Thursday and flatly said something that was not true:
My son was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq.
The outlet was able to obtain a video of the moment. Watch:
He can’t remember anythng about Beau except he died, I.m surprised he knows Jill on a good day.