Posted on 02/21/2020 5:28:01 PM PST by TigerClaws
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a pretty good tale to share — but it may be a little tall.
Biden, who is running for president, has been spicing up his recent campaign stump speeches with a story of how he was arrested while in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela, The New York Times reports. But that recollection of events has only recently come to light, and it was reportedly omitted from Biden's 2007 memoir that detailed his escapades in the country around that time.
During recent campaign speeches, Biden says he "had the great honor" of meeting Mandela and "of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto." As Miami Herald reporter Alex Daugherty points out, Soweto is a ways away from Robben Island, where Mandela's maximum security prison was located.
The arrest, which has seemingly only been brought up publicly by Biden in the last few weeks, was not found referenced anywhere by readily available news outlets, per the Times.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. from 1977 to 1979 was Andrew Young. While Young reportedly acknowledged going to South Africa with Biden, he said he was never arrested in the country, and he told the Times he didn't think Biden had been arrested there either.
"I don't think there was ever a situation where congressmen were arrested in South Africa," Young told the Times, although he did say some people were being arrested in Washington.
The story, which was seemingly nonexistent before a few weeks ago, has been told three times on the trail as Biden heads into Nevada and South Carolina, where he needs to pull in big numbers in order to counteract a lackluster showing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Word of advice: there are other ways to make yourself look tough to voters that don't include broadcasting a trip to the slammer. Marianne Dodson
What a clown.
Following in the tradition of Hillary Clinton.
I thought Slow Joe got arrested on Venus trying to save the womez planet from the menz from Mars.
Let’s see US Senator goes to South Africa and gets arrested yet no news outlet ever reported it. Bullshit
Wow. He also lied or was confused about his son...
https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1230665048265252867
it is an outright lie.
Let’s see US Senator goes to South Africa and gets arrested yet no news outlet ever reported it. Bullshit
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Let’s see US Senator goes to South Africa and gets arrested yet no news outlet ever reported it. Bullshit
I just wanted to say it again.
No. He was trying to pick up some young girl in the South Bronx, not So. Africa (but he was released because of DeBlasio/Cuomo’s new “catch and release Democrat criminals” immediately.
And it was only a couple weeks ago, too. /SARC with all caps.
He has problems with both long and short range memories. He seems to forget that he is no longer VP, just like Hillary doesn’t seem to know that she didn’t win the 2016 elections, that she lied about Benghazi, got Susan Rice to lie about Benghazi, her 33,000 deleted emails, the BleachBitch destruction of her hard drives, phones, and porno collection.
Was he dodging snipper fire too?
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