{"id":1213562,"date":"2022-01-13T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213562"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:19:40","slug":"biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-wapo-calls-it-a-whopper-of-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-wapo-calls-it-a-whopper-of-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Claims Yet Another Arrest; WaPo Calls It A \u2018Whopper\u2019 Of A Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-yet-another-arrest-wapo-calls-it-a-whopper-of-a-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden this week told an audience of black students in Atlanta that he was arrested during the civil rights movement, a claim that drew four Pinocchios from a liberal newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe struggle to protect voting rights has never been borne by one group alone. We saw Freedom Riders of every race, leaders of every faith, marching arm in arm \u2014 and yes, Democrats and Republicans in Congress of the United States and in the presidency,\u201d Biden said in his speech about voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not live the struggles of Douglass, Tubman, King, Lewis, Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner, countless others known and unknown. I did not walk in the shoes of generation of students who walked these grounds. But I walked other grounds, because I\u2019m so damn old I was there as well. They think I\u2019m kidding, man. It seems like yesterday, the first time I got arrested\u2014 anyway,\u201d he said to laughter. \u201cBut their struggles, here, they\u2019re the ones that opened my eyes as a high school student in the late 50\u2019s and early 60\u2019s. They got me more engaged in the work of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an expansive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/13\/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-which-theres-little-evidence\/\">fact check<\/a>, The Washington Post gave the claim its highest rating for falsehoods, four Pinocchios, which means simply \u201cwhoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper, which strongly supported Biden throughout the 2020 campaign and endorsed his run for president, recounted numerous times Biden has claimed he was taken home by police, but even in his memoir, Biden never claims to have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible that police might have taken the young Biden home from a dangerous situation \u2014 as he said twice \u2014 but that\u2019s not an arrest,\u201d the Post said. \u201cMoreover, one would think such a memorable incident would have made it into one of Biden\u2019s memoirs. Instead, it\u2019s not mentioned in the book that specifically references the conversation with his mother about joining the ticket. Ordinarily, one would think such a memorable moment in a young man\u2019s life would have merited an earlier recounting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary source for this story is Biden \u2014 and we\u2019ve learned over the years that he is not always a reliable source. He appears to be citing his mother to enhance his civil rights credentials \u2014 which we have noted he has exaggerated before \u2014 but too many elements do not add up to give this \u2018arrest\u2019 more credibility than his previous claims of getting in trouble with the law,\u201d the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail, Biden claimed he was arrested in the 1970s in South Africa as he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. Biden said he was arrested in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, a city in the northeast of the country. But at the time, Mandela was being held on Robben Island, near Cape Town in the southwest part of the country. The two sites are 900 miles apart.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden never mentioned the arrest in his memoir, and The New York Times also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-south-africa-arrest-mandela.html?0p19G=0038\">said<\/a>, \u201cA check of available news accounts by The New York Times turned up no references to an arrest. South African arrest records are not readily available in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden this week told an audience of black students in Atlanta that he was arrested during the civil rights movement, a claim that drew four Pinocchios from a liberal newspaper. \u201cThe struggle to protect voting rights has never been borne by one group alone. 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