Posted on 12/16/2022 11:19:24 AM PST by deplorableindc
President Biden claimed Friday that his uncle Frank Biden won the Purple Heart for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II — but there’s no evidence of the award and key details of the story are chronologically impossible.
The 80-year-old commander-in-chief has a habit of sharing false or embellished personal anecdotes to build a connection with his audiences and told his latest apparent tall tale during largely unscripted remarks to veterans in Delaware.
“My dad, when I got elected vice president [in 2008], he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.’ He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle the Bulge, but he said, ‘and he won the Purple Heart and he never received it. He never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We will surprise him,'” the president recalled.
“So I got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over the house and I came out and [my father] said, ‘Present it to him, okay?’ We had the family there,” Biden went on.
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Biden’s father, Joseph R. Biden Sr., died in September 2002 — more than six years before his son was elected vice president. Frank Biden, Joe Sr.’s brother, died in 1999.
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It’s called lying.
Nobody “wins” a Purple Heart. That award is EARNED. The hard way.
Then again, Biden didn’t really earn or win anything.
Just add it to the list next to corn pop, his son dying in Iraq, his golden leg hairs, law school grades, IQ test results, university professor career, etc. Etc...
sharing false or embellished personal anecdotes .....................We used to call them “LIES”...............
Malarkey Rides Again!
It’s probably 100% BS.
But it sounds like the Biden way of doing business — “Hey, you’re a bigshot now. I want a favor. There’s this guy who didn’t do anything, but I was hoping you could give him the Congressional Medal of Honor, just for grins. You can’t?? Well, can he at least get a Purple Heart? C’mon, man. You owe me.”
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Don’t forget Angelo the Amtrak conductor logging Biden’s 2 gazillion miles traveled.
joe’s no liar, but his father and uncle were.
Aren’t such records public info? Doesn’t anymore do any research anymore?
Oh who cares? The media will never call him out on any of this stuff so people think Joe is just a “middle of the road” honest guy. I never thought the “media” (Pravda), in this day and age, would control the narrative even when it’s obvious what they’re doing.
Please. We prefer to call it "misinformation."
Kerry put himself in for the Purple Heart, for some rice burns on the backside.
Pathological
Biden... no the purple heart was what the little girl last week was drawing when you came up and sniffed her hair!
Keep it together Plugs!
Awww, c’mon man!
Everybody knows he won it from injuries he received from his crash landing of the new Messerschmitt Me 262 he had stolen in a deep cover operation, with Snoopy as his wing-man.
Stolen valor by proxy
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