While speaking at a college in Wisconsin on Monday, President Joe Biden repeated a lie that he was once forced to debunk himself after being called out; Joe said he was the first in his family to go to college.
“I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college and watched my dad struggle to get there,” he said.
Not true.
From The New York Post:
He acknowledged it was untrue more than 35 years ago when his 1987 presidential campaign unraveled in a plagiarism scandal that saw him lift remarks from a British politician.
Confronted about plagiarism and a number of inaccurate statements at the time, Biden acknowledged to the New York Times in 1987 that “there are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.”
Biden’s father also attended the prestigious Johns Hopkins University for one year, the York Daily Record reported in 2020, citing Census records. A 1941 wedding announcement in the Scranton Tribune said the president’s dad “attended Johns Hopkins University.”
Watch the clip below:
BIDEN: "I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college."
He's lying. In 1987, he was even forced to admit it's a total LIE (after he plagiarized a British politician). pic.twitter.com/nUmIMrApwX
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