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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BIDEN ACADEMIC CLAIMS ‘INACCURATE’
By James R. Dickenson
September 22, 1987
WTF? i thought he was Catholic???
Biden will be Jewish next
Then Mormon
Then Druid
Biden lies like Hillary
Biden has a history of just making s*** up. “I graduated top of my class. I was raised in a black church, I got my start at Delaware State.” Stuff that can be easily checked and shown to be false. He suffers (or enjoys) a serious disconnect with reality and has for a long time.
Oooooh sh!t... LOL!
How dare y'all doubt Plugs. Why he even sang back-up with the good reverend on "Try a Little Tenderness" back in da day.
First —JoJo wasn’t a teen in the ‘60s. I was a teen in the ‘60s and I’m 69 Joe is 77 and born in 1942. He has in his mid to late 20’s during the height of the civil rights movement years.
Yeah....he lies like rain falls from the clouds.....
Baptist? I thought Joe was catholic!
Someone with http skills could put the head of Joe Biden on the Steve Martin character when he was dancing on that front porch with “his family”.
We don’t want him.
His WIKI profile says Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont. Academically, he was a poor student, and graduated in 1961.
Just like Bill Clinton remembered black churches were burned when he was growing up in Hope, Arkansas.
I can’t wait until he gets to the Druid part. *chuckle*
Maybe Neil Kinnock hung out there too
Biden learned to lie from Obama, who learned from both Clintons what lies Dems always get away with saying.
Joe Isuzu strikes again.
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