Joe Biden has always been a fabulist. Since he first stepped onto the national stage, he has woven myths about his life. Joe needed the gravitas of good grades and a solid academic background to move up the ladder of national politics, so he invented a student who never existed.
Joe threatened to fight a man who asked about his academic chops and claimed he went to law school on “a full academic scholarship.” Except, he didn’t. He claimed he had three degrees from college. Except, he doesn’t. He claimed he was in the “top half” of his law school class. Nope. He was in the “steerage” section of his law school class.
Biden also famously pilfered a large part of Neil Kinnock’s life story, including stealing one of his speeches, almost word for word. Joe got caught and slinked back to Delaware and the Senate to lie about more mundane things like his wife’s and daughter’s deaths. It became almost a full-time job to keep Joe Biden’s lies straight, particularly for Joe Biden.
Over the years, Joe has lied about every part of his life. The most disgusting is using his dead son’s service as a campaign prop and lying about how and why he died.
Biden, it seemed, attended Black churches growing up. He was raised by Puerto Ricans, too. Joe was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela, and he was arrested while protesting for civil rights.
None of that is true. It is all made up by Joe.
His house nearly burned down. Biden claimed he taught Con Law and drove a semi-truck. He was blue collar before the term was invented. Joe invented the term. He’s claimed that he was a football star and hit a line drive 368 feet off the center field wall during the second Congressional Baseball Game. None of those things actually happened. It was all made up by Joe.
It’s amazing that he hasn’t fallen off a stage, not for lack of trying.