Interestingly, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped direct reference to the cannibal story during a press gathering, choosing instead to emphasize Biden’s pride in his uncle’s military service.
Notably, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape rebuked Biden’s account, asserting that the cannibalistic practices Biden referenced were non-existent in New Guinea by the 1940s, the period in question.
Bogus Biden Stories
Biden’s cannibal story was definitely a memory misstep, but he has quite a few of those. The President has always embellished or invented facts in his own biography.
A few weeks ago, on the Howard Stern show, he bragged that he was a civil rights icon and had been arrested in a march with Blacks. It never happened. There is no record that he marched, and he was certainly never arrested.
The truth is as a young senator, Biden worked with former Klansman, Senator Robert Byrd to stop integration.
He claims now that he was a civil rights advocate. But at the time he was against integration of public schools and bussing. He claimed at that time he didn’t want kids to go to schools, in a “racial jungle.”
