Biden spoke about his uncle, 2nd Lt Ambrose J Finnegan Jr, while campaigning in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, describing how “Uncle Bosie” had flown single engine planes as reconnaissance flights during the war. Biden said he “got shot down in New Guinea”, adding “they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”
Link to video of demented Joe half mumbling his deranged story on the campaign trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhvUKrBziqI&t=91
Link to The Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/joe-biden-uncle-bosie-cannibals-eaten-papua-new-guinea
Press Secretary, and professional liar, Karine Jean-Pierre squirms and attempts to shame journalists asking questions about Biden's latest episode of senile dementia:
He's not wrong about the cannibals - that's where we discovered kuru - but that doesn't mean the rest of it is true.
With the minor exception that it is a load of bull, according to official records.
His uncle was not flying any plane, he was a passenger; the plane was not "shot down", it crashed due to engine failure and it sank into the Pacific Ocean.
Unless there were aquatic cannibals I'm not aware of, this sounds like another Crazy Uncle Joe tall tale.
It's a typical trait of this kind of dementia. There's a nugget of truth to the story, but they're making up most of the details on the fly, because they can't remember any of them. If they are a good enough storyteller, they might keep it coherent enough to avoid appearing as far gone as they really are.
I can't imagine how bad this will get if they force Biden through for another four years.
Don't blame this on dementia (which is not helping). This is being a straight up liar. He's done it his whole career.
The media-factcheck industrial complex will go to town on the smallest hyperbole and exagerration of Trump's but Biden can repeatedly say things that are verifiably false and never get called on it.
The media is the enemy. Not "your" enemy or "my" enemy, but the enemy. Everyone's enemy.