Five times Biden has inject­ed fic­tion into his biog­ra­phy

One con­sis­tent aspect of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s time in the White House has been his ten­den­cy to exag­ger­ate sto­ries about his past.
Biden’s ten­den­cy to exag­ger­ate, which goes back decades, typ­i­cal­ly involves sto­ries with an ele­ment of truth that get stretched with new and often hard-to-believe details. Biden some­times gets called out via fact checks, yet blows through them faster than a speed­ing Amtrak train.
Here are five exam­ples of the phe­nom­e­non.
“There were a lot of can­ni­bals”
The lat­est exag­ger­a­tion came while Biden vis­it­ed the war memo­r­i­al in Scran­ton, Penn­syl­va­nia, where his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan’s name is list­ed on the wall. That led the pres­i­dent to launch into a sto­ry about Finnegan.

NEW: Biden tells heart­break­ing sto­ry about his uncle Ambrose Finnegan, bet­ter known as Uncle Bozey, says he may have been eat­en by cannibals.After telling a sto­ry about how his uncle may have been eat­en by can­ni­bals, Biden then con­nect­ed it to Trump.“He was shot down. He was… pic.twitter.com/COQAxrxrIA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 17, 2024

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