Posted on 10/12/2020 3:42:05 PM PDT by karpov
More campaign trail claims from Democratic nominee Joe Biden have been called into question — this time his tales of being “raised” in a black church in Delaware where he was supposedly a civil rights organizer.
The former veep, 77, has repeatedly spoken about participating in the civil rights movement as a teenager in the 1960s and of attending organizing sessions at the Union Baptist Church in Wilmington — then run by the Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who died in 1996.
But congregants and a longtime assistant to Herring at the prominent black church told the Washington Free Beacon this week that they never remembered Biden attending as he claimed, and said he met Herring as an adult.
When asked if Biden attended Union Baptist, Phyllis Drummond, Herring’s longtime assistant who attended the church for four decades, said: “No. Not at our building.”
Juanita Matthew, another longtime member, told the Free Beacon that she also wasn’t aware of Biden’s attendance as a high school student.
She said Herring only befriended Biden after the newly elected senator’s wife and daughter were killed in a tragic car accident in 1972, but called the lawmaker “a great friend of the church and the pastor.”
In various stump speeches during the Democratic primary, Biden repeatedly claimed he was at Union Baptist every weekend and was involved in organizing anti-segregation protests.
“When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,” Biden told a crowd of parishioners at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina on Jan. 20.
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Bernadette Peters was such a hottie.
Why am I not surprised?
This where he supposedly ran into corn pop?
I’ve said I’d be rich if I had a dollar for everyone I’ve heard claim to have “marched” with MLK. This sounds like a variant. Sort of like Stolen Valor for lefties.
Biden can’t remember which state he’s campaigning in, whether he’s running for president or senator, who was the Mormon guy he campaigned against, and now, despite being a lifelong Catholic he went to a Baptist church. His wife is a despicable person for letting this go on.
If I was a Rat, I’d be crawling in the darkest hole I could find right about now.
What an embarrassment!
Is this the breast he can do running for senate and promising 15 million dollar minimum wage while recollecting a black church he never attended where black people ain’t black?
Biden doesn’t know what day it is..he is just a figurehead for the communist goons to take over. If the media in this country were actually HONEST and FAIR, Biden would have had to drop out months ago
Biden lies like Hillary
Agreed!
Another day another lie.
It was never easy for him
He may as well be a Baptist, he doesn’t follow any of the Catholic Doctrines.
Biden hates these cans!
For real, Man.
One of those John Kerry-Heinz “DUH” moments?
He was saying he was a devout Catholic a couple of days ago.
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