Biden Boasts of Law School Standing Ovation Amid Skepticism from Critics
Biden’s Unbelievable Law School Ovation Draws Ire and Eyebrows
In an extraordinary claim that sparked waves of skepticism, President Joe Biden boasted an incident from his law school days that supposedly ended with a standing ovation—an event quickly met with criticism and disbelief.
During a marathon five-hour interrogation with Special Counsel Robert Hur, Biden let slip a personal anecdote from his torts class. A tale that exploded into public discourse when Hur’s testimony transcripts hit the presses.
Biden’s story paints a picture of a grueling classroom scenario. Called upon unprepared, he confidently improvised a 10-minute monologue on an unread case. “The whole class stood up, started clapping,” he asserted, describing the scene as a spontaneous outpour of admiration from his peers.
“We had a really difficult professor,” Biden recalled. “He called on me to discuss a case, you know, in your first torts class. And I had never read the case, and I stood up and I spoke for 10 minutes. The whole class stood up, started clapping.” https://t.co/OErX1gmu4G
— Andy Grewal (@ProfGrewal) March 12, 2024
Response to the president’s anecdote was swift and derisive, with many taking to social media to broadcast their incredulity.
One commenter wryly retorted with a further embellishment, joking about a grand prize for Biden’s supposed display of rhetorical bravado.
Then the Manager of the school came out of the back office and gave Joe a $100 gift card to Starbucks
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) March 12, 2024
Journalists and commentators joined the fray, casting doubt and critiquing the president’s narrative with witty and pointed remarks.
Others drew attention to Biden’s academic record to question the plausibility of his prodigious performance.
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Finished 76th out of 85 students in his law class… So yeah, this totally happened: https://t.co/zIxmREi7bf
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 14, 2024
Another critic pointed out the unlikely nature of law students being that easily swayed or entertained by an unprepared response, regardless of how charismatic the speaker may be.
Even at a pretty gentle law school like Yale, you can’t get away with buffaloing a professor for 10 minutes about a case you’ve never read https://t.co/HR1TaIrHHK pic.twitter.com/BDbFdu1OuL
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) March 12, 2024
Skepticism in the Age of Scrutiny
The tidal wave of doubt serves as a testament to the age we live in—an era where public figures’ claims are dissected and scrutinized in real-time, with every individual capable of stacking any story against factual records or plausibility tests. Biden’s law school standing ovation narrative, whether a nugget of history or a fragment of overzealous remembrance, has certainly left its mark, igniting a fiery debate about its authenticity.
So, did a young Joe Biden truly charm his way to an impromptu round of applause from his law school peers? The jury might still be out on this one, but the court of public opinion has had its say—loudly and with much fervor.
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