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President Biden made a extremity successful Pittsburgh connected Wednesday wherever he told members of nan United Steelworkers Union that his uncle vanished successful an area of New Guinea that was populated pinch cannibals, aft his level collapsed during World War II.
Biden told nan steelworkers that aft D-Day, his mother’s 4 brothers volunteered to subordinate nan military. One of those uncles, he said, was Ambrose Finnegan, who went by nan nickname Bozey.
"He was a hellhole of an athlete, they show me, erstwhile he was a kid," Biden said, adding that he was successful nan Army aerial corps, which was successful spot earlier nan Air Force came along. "He flew those single-engine planes arsenic reconnaissance complete warfare zones, and he sewage changeable down successful New Guinea. They ne'er recovered nan assemblage because location utilized to be, location were a batch of cannibals, for real, successful that portion of New Guinea."
The president said pinch reporters earlier successful nan time earlier boarding Air Force One and heading retired to Pittsburgh.
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President Biden claimed Wednesday that his uncle vanished aft a level he was connected during World War II collapsed successful a cannibal-infested area of New Guinea. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
He told reporters he wanted to spot really his uncle was memorialized successful a World War II memorial for those who mislaid their lives successful nan war.
"When D-Day occurred, nan adjacent day, connected Monday, each 4 of my mother’s brothers went down and volunteered to subordinate nan military," Biden said. "Ambrose Finnegan, we called him Uncle Bozey, he was changeable down. He was Army Air Corps earlier location was an Air Force.
"They ne'er recovered his body, but nan authorities went backmost erstwhile I went down there, and they checked and recovered immoderate parts of nan plane," he added.
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has a different record of what happened to Biden’s uncle.
The tract said connected May 14, 1944, an airplane carrying a unit of 3 and 1 passenger, identified arsenic Finnegan, near Momote Airfield connected Los Negros Island for a courier formation to New Guinea.
"For chartless reasons, this level was forced to ditch successful nan water disconnected nan northbound seashore of New Guinea," nan study reads. "Both engines grounded astatine debased altitude, and nan aircraft’s chemoreceptor deed nan h2o hard."
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President Biden speaks astatine nan Chase Center successful Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
The study besides said 3 men grounded to look from nan sinking wreck and were mislaid successful nan crash, while 1 unit personnel survived and was rescued by a barge. Finnegan has not been associated pinch immoderate of nan remains recovered from nan area aft nan warfare and is still not accounted for, according to nan report.
Biden is nary alien to making questionable claims. Earlier this week, he claimed he was nan "first" personification successful his family to "go to college," while speaking successful Wisconsin.
"I, for illustration an atrocious batch of group successful this audience, was nan first successful my family to spell to college," Biden told nan crowd. However, little than 2 years ago, during a reside successful Pennsylvania, Biden told an assemblage his grandfather played assemblage football. In nan statement, he said his "Grandfather Finnegan" was an "all-American shot player" successful Santa Clara.
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President Biden has been caught embellishing stories for decades. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Years before, erstwhile he ran for president successful 1987, Biden exaggerated his world grounds by bragging he graduated "in nan apical half" of his people while berating a newsman connected nan run trail.
"I deliberation I person a overmuch higher IQ than you do, I suspect," Biden told nan newsman successful New Hampshire astatine nan time. "I went to rule schoolhouse connected a afloat world scholarship, nan only 1 successful my people to person a afloat world scholarship.
"In nan first twelvemonth of rule school, I decided I didn't want to beryllium successful rule schoolhouse and ended up successful nan bottommost two-thirds of my class," he said. "And past I decided to stay, went backmost to rule schoolhouse and, successful fact, ended up successful nan apical half of my class."
He later admitted that he graduated 76th successful a people of 85.
"I did not postgraduate successful nan apical half of my people astatine rule school, and my recollection of this was inaccurate," he told The New York Times.
"I graduated from nan University of Delaware pinch a double awesome successful history and governmental science," he said. "My reference to degrees astatine nan Claremont arena was intended to mention to these majors. I said 'three' and should person said 'two.'"
According to Reuters, galore residents of President Biden's puerility location of Scranton, Pennsylvania do not want him to tally again. (Getty Images)
The outlet pointed retired Biden received a azygous bachelor's grade successful history and governmental science.
Since then, Biden has told galore stories that person besides been deemed exaggerations. Mainstream outlets, including The Washington Post, person moreover called him retired connected them, including nan publication's apical fact-checker, Glenn Kessler.
Some stories Kessler addressed see Biden's declare he and his begetter saw 2 men successful suits kissing each different successful nationalist erstwhile he was a teenager, that he was arrested for trying to spot Nelson Mandela successful South Africa and how, arsenic vice president, he arranged for his uncle to beryllium presented a Purple Heart that he was owed and ne'er received. The uncle died successful 1999, agelong earlier Biden was vice president.
Biden besides repeated a mendacious declare past twelvemonth astir his location burning down successful his effort to subordinate to those who mislaid their homes to wildfires ravaging Maui.
"I don’t want to comparison difficulties, but we person a small sense, Jill and I, of what it was for illustration to suffer a home," Biden said. "Years ago, now, 15 years, I was successful Washington doing ‘Meet nan Press'… Lightning struck astatine location connected a small reservoir extracurricular nan home, not a lake, a large pond. It deed nan ligament and came up underneath our home, into nan … aerial information ducts.
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"To make a agelong communicative short, I almost mislaid my wife, my '67 Corvette and my cat," nan president added.
A 2004 study from The Associated Press, archived by LexisNexis, said lightning struck nan Bidens’ location and started a "small occurrence that was contained to nan kitchen." The study said firefighters sewage nan blaze nether power successful 20 minutes and that they were capable to support nan flames from spreading beyond nan kitchen.
Fox News Digital’s Jessica Chasmar, Gabriel Hayes, Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Joe Schoffstall and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.
Greg Wehner is simply a breaking news newsman for Fox News Digital.
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