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During her keynote address to the Democratic National Convention on the 17th of August, former First Lady Michelle Obama made several remarks about Joe Biden intended to form part of her endorsement of the former Vice President. One in particular attracted a large amount of attention: the assertion that Biden gives his personal phone number to kids. It’s certainly true that she said those words, but they are missing context. More than one context, in fact. Let’s look at the section of the speech in more detail. “So Joe knows the anguish of sitting at a table with an empty...

Judicial Watch announced on Thursday that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for records that were allegedly destroyed by the Secret Service regarding a 2009 incident between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Secret Service agent. Their original FOIA request was made back on May 12, 2020, and sought “all records related to a reported incident in 2009 in which a United States Secret Service Agent reportedly was involved in an altercation with, or attempted to strike, then Vice President Joe Biden” during a photo opportunity. According to Judicial Watch, the...