Posted on 02/22/2020 10:30:13 AM PST by rktman
Former Vice President Joe Biden has taken to describing his supposed arrest in South Africa at least three times in the past two weeks as he speaks to voters and seeks the Democratic presidential nomination.
Biden has been claiming that he was arrested in the 1970s by South African authorities while he sought to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, The New York Times reported Friday.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,” Biden told supporters in South Carolina last week, according to the Times. “I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
Biden would have been a Democratic senator from Delaware at that time and any arrest would probably have been noted in the U.S. media, but the Times did not find any relevant references in its archives.
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Was this before or after Joe was hanging out with his imaginary coal mining relatives?
More pre-South Carolina race-baiting. In 2012 he went down there and said to a black crowd in his best black accent, “Them Republicans . . . They gonna put all y’all in chains!”
Well, he’s old enough.
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