Joe Biden on Monday traveled to Philadelphia to ship remarks on the announcement occasion for the town receiving a $22.4 million SAFER Grant award that may fund firefighters’ wage and advantages.
Biden wandered round misplaced and mumbled one thing incoherently as he arrived with PA Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Biden claimed Ronald Reagan despatched Marine One to take him to Walter Reed after he had a mind aneurysm within the Nineteen Eighties.
After all, Biden botched the title of the presidential helicopter.
“President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force Helicopter One to take me down, but it couldn’t fly,” Biden stated to firefighters on. “And so my fire department came up, put me in the back and took me on heavy snow on the day I went down to Walter Reed.”
It is a brazen lie. This by no means occurred.
Excerpt from The New York Post:
President Biden referred to the presidential helicopter Marine One as “Air Force Helicopter One” Monday — whereas claiming that Ronald Reagan despatched the chopper to take him from Delaware to the DC-area Walter Reed navy hospital when Biden had a mind aneurysm within the Nineteen Eighties.
The 81-year-old’s anecdote is, like different biographical particulars he’s shared in public remarks, not supported by his personal autobiography — or by Reagan’s day by day presidential diary.
A evaluate of data posted on-line by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library turned up no corroborating proof.
Press reviews point out that then-Sen. Biden was admitted to Walter Reed on Feb. 12, 1988 — and Reagan’s day by day diary, which features a detailed account of his conferences and cellphone calls, exhibits no discussions about sending the chopper to help the Democrat.
In truth, Reagan himself was unable to make use of Marine One on the morning of Feb. 12 as a result of poor climate, in line with a handwritten annotation, forcing him to take a motorcade to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to board Air Power One for a flight to Los Angeles.
The time period “Marine One” is used for whichever helicopter the president is touring in, fairly than a selected car — as is the case with the time period “Air Force One” — and it’s sometimes joined by two similar decoys. It’s unclear what number of occasions presidents could have tried to mortgage one of many navy helicopters as a favor.
Biden on Monday additionally lied about his home burning down.
That is one in every of Biden’s favourite lies (he has many).
“They also saved my home and my wife’s life. When I was away, it was the last day for the most famous guy doing ‘Meet the Press’ in Washington DC and I was doing the program….and what happened was lightning struck a pond behind my house, hit a wire, came up through the basement of my home and three stories and the smoke ended up being that thick,” Biden stated making a gesture along with his fingers.
He continued, “I wasn’t there and my wife was there and my dog and my cat and my ’67 Corvette…all kidding aside they saved my wife and got her out.”
It seems the home didn’t burn down.
In 2004 lightning struck Biden’s residence, beginning a small kitchen fireplace (who hasn’t had a small kitchen fireplace?) – Jill reported the small fireplace and it was below management in 20 minutes.
