U.S. President Joe Biden is at it again. The elderly, often incoherent President who has a knack for rambling and telling tall tales is once again telling campfire stories out of turn. While pushing his new voter rights bill in Georgia Tuesday, Biden once again told the already fact-checked lie that he had been arrested during the civil rights movement.
“I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds, but I walked other grounds,” Biden said while speaking at Morehouse College. “Because I’m so damn old, I was there as well. You think I’m kidding? It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.”
We’ll take “Things that never happened” for $200, Alex.
Biden has often claimed he marched shoulder to shoulder with black civil rights activists during the 1960s, but has also admitted he was never an activist and never marched for civil rights. In fact, in Biden’s earlier years, he was more likely to have shown up at a Ku Klux Klan rally than at a civil rights movement.
In fact, NBC reported Joe Biden didn’t just compromise with segregationists in his early years, he fought for their cause. NBC claimed Biden was at the forefront of keeping black students away from white ones.
Biden eventually retracted his claim that he was a civil rights activist.
It wasn’t the only charge on Biden’s rap sheet. Biden also falsely claimed he was arrested with Nelson Mandela.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robben Island,” Biden said during a 2020 campaign speech.
When pressed, after telling that tall tale multiple times, Biden confessed, “I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go.”