After lying about his intention to protect the Constitution, the rest is small potatoes. Still ….
/Biden repeats his lie (again) about being the first in his family to attend college
President Biden falsely claimed earlier this week that he was the "first" person in his family to "go to college," continuing a decades-long habit of making false or embellished claims about his life.
Biden has been scrutinized several times over the years for fabricating tales, including a claim he was arrested in apartheid-era South Africa, was in a helicopter "forced down" by al Qaeda insurgents in Afghanistan and even trivial events involving an Amtrak conductor who died before Biden's alleged story took place.
Biden continued the trend Monday while speaking in the battleground state of Wisconsin as he outlined his plan to provide "life-changing" relief for student loan debt.
"I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college," Biden told the crowd.
However, less than two years ago, during a speech in Pennsylvania, Biden told an audience his grandfather played college football.
"My grandfather Finnegan from Scranton would really be proud of me right now,' Biden said in Pittsburgh in October 2022. "No, I'm not joking. He would. By the way, he was an All-American football player [inaudible] in Santa Clara."
Joe Biden just said in a speech in Wisconsin "I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 8, 2024
That is a lie.
One of the reasons we know it's a lie is because Biden has bragged several times in the past about how his grandfather… pic.twitter.com/1ppP90RDnD