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Fact Check: Biden Claims He Was ‘Appointed’ to Naval Academy, Roger Staubach Prevented Him from Attending
Breitbart ^ | 05/25/2024 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL

Posted on 05/25/2024 5:05:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy West Point that he turned down an offer to play football at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

VERDICT: False.

Biden has previously told different versions of this claim to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

In his claim, Biden says he applied to the Naval Academy in order to play football. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by former Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R) in 1965. However, the president graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, which makes it unlikely he would have applied to attend the Naval Academy then.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appointed; biden; navalacademy; pathologicalliar; staubach
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He's lied so much since 1972 when he was elected. He probably believes this happened.
1 posted on 05/25/2024 5:05:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Hang on! He applied to play football? That SOB dodged the draft!
2 posted on 05/25/2024 5:13:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He was too busy becoming a Navy SEAL to attend…err wait, that’s for his speech at Annapolis


3 posted on 05/25/2024 5:14:22 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HE CERTAINLY DOES BELIEVE ALL THESE LIES.

IN AN HONEST WORLD, HE WOULD BE IN A HEAVILY PADDED ROOM.


4 posted on 05/25/2024 5:19:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Yessiree...’I clearly remember him substituting for Roger in order to beat Army...

He threw 5 touchdown passes in the 4th quarter...


5 posted on 05/25/2024 5:19:46 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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While Beau cheered from the 50 yard line.


6 posted on 05/25/2024 5:21:21 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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It’s a shame b/c Beau died in Vietnamistan a year later.


7 posted on 05/25/2024 5:30:00 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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Little known fact is that Joe had four hungry New Guinea cannibals as offensive linemen...


8 posted on 05/25/2024 5:32:23 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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” He was appointed to the Naval Academy by former Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R) in 1965”

Wrong.

Boggs may have NOMINATED him, but the Academy selection board makes the appointments. They would have an actual record of that.

Typically they will consider about 5000 nominations and extend about 1400 appointments according to their own websites.


9 posted on 05/25/2024 5:33:39 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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“For a brief time after losing my gig to go to the Academy, I fell in with an activist group that called themselves The Rebellion Alliance. Got mixed up in a crazy scheme to torpedo a battlehip station that threw out laser beams an’ blew stuff up. Well, torpedoin’ stuff was my stock n’ trade. Lay down that torpedo like nobody’s business. Think I’m kiddin’? Well, that’s what The Princess told me. *henh!* Anyway, so all us kids drive our dragsters at this thing an’...well...you can guess what happened. A guy named Ham Sandwich blocks three defenders all by himself. I put that torpedo through the uprights an’ Ham says ‘That was a one in a million shot, kid! Ya did great!’ No joke! But...Some guy name Luke got the credit, an’ a medal, an’ a bunch of money. Told myself, ‘let that poor kid from nowhere have it.’ An’ here I am today. Oh. The Princess? Luke’s sister. *wink* No lie. *henh!*”


10 posted on 05/25/2024 5:36:24 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And our repulsive media give him a pass for all of his BS.


11 posted on 05/25/2024 5:44:13 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Yep, just a kindly old guy with a bad memory.....


12 posted on 05/25/2024 5:47:08 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (e)
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To: SuperLuminal

He threw 5 touchdown passes in the 4th quarter...
= = =

With a different cheerleader between each one.


13 posted on 05/25/2024 5:57:18 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe was personally recruited by Admiral “Bull” Halsey


14 posted on 05/25/2024 6:02:42 PM PDT by EC Washington
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Geez...and the Cowboys had told Biden they were ready to draft Biden as their QB.


15 posted on 05/25/2024 6:03:08 PM PDT by texanyankee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He couldn’t hold Roger’s jock strap


16 posted on 05/25/2024 6:05:56 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Recall that elite fake news lackey Brian Williams also voiced delusional tales of personal grandiosity ... also to the amusement of all.


17 posted on 05/25/2024 6:13:50 PM PDT by Beowulf
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To: SuperLuminal

18 posted on 05/25/2024 6:24:01 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When did Walter Mitty become President?


19 posted on 05/25/2024 6:35:30 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: ridesthemiles

George Costanza noted that if you believe it, it’s not a lie.


20 posted on 05/25/2024 7:01:28 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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