{"id":2223674,"date":"2024-04-17T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-suggests-unfounded-idea-about-his-uncle-and-cannibals-in-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:29:21","slug":"biden-suggests-unfounded-idea-about-his-uncle-and-cannibals-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-suggests-unfounded-idea-about-his-uncle-and-cannibals-in-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden floats unsubstantiated claim about his uncle and &#8216;cannibals&#8217; during WWII"},"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\">22<\/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-suggests-unfounded-idea-about-his-uncle-and-cannibals-in-world-war-ii%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=2223674&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 spoke\u2064 about his\u200d uncle&#8217;s WWII experience during a press event. He shared a story about his uncle being shot down \u200dover Papua New Guinea, \u200dclaiming cannibals were involved, despite conflicting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-expert-claims-black-voters-dont-have-ids-because-underlying-documents-are-hard-to-get-many-are-free\/\" title=\"CNN Expert Claims Black Voters Don\u2019t Have IDs Because \u2018Underlying Documents Are Hard To Get\u2019. Many Are Free.\">military records<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-glaring-omission-while-talking-about-his-familys-gun-ownership\/\" title=\"Biden Makes Glaring Omission While Talking About His Family\u2019s Gun Ownership\">president recounted<\/a> how his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, volunteered \u2064for\u2062 risky missions, never \u200crecovered after \u200dthe crash, and \u200dsome\u200b plane parts \u200bwere\u200d found during an investigation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> appeared to suggest that cannibals ate his uncle after he was shot down during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/world-war-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"World War II\">World War II<\/a>, though military records say otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters on Wednesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Scranton, Pennsylvania<\/a>, Biden twice recalled the story of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater of World War II. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citizens-gather-in-washington-d-c-for-save-america-rally\/\" title=\"Citizens gather in Washington, D.C. for \u2018Save America Rally\u2019\">president claimed<\/a> that he was shot down over Papua New Guinea in an area infested with cannibals.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>President Joe Biden meets with law enforcement before boarding and departing on Air Force One from Pittsburgh International Airport, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn\u2019t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThey never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden used the story as a roundabout way to bash Donald Trump, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonLeopold\/status\/1301673157699407873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"debunked\">disputed<\/a> story claiming that the former president refused to visit a cemetery for American soldiers in France because he thought they were \u201csuckers\u201d and \u201closers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Military records contradicted nearly every detail of Biden\u2019s story about his uncle, instead noting that Finnegan\u2019s plane crashed in the ocean due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/passenger-plane-emergency-lands-after-engine-failure-debris-falls-from-sky\/\" title=\"Passenger Plane Emergency Lands After Engine Failure; Debris Falls From Sky\">engine failure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor unknown reasons, this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil\/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzWi4EAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"report\">report<\/a> from the Department of Defense\u2019s POW\/MIA Accounting Agency said. \u201cBoth engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft\u2019s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash. One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plane was also cited as an A-20 Havoc, a two-engined plane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Biden also claimed that the government conducted a search \u201cwhen I went down there,\u201d finding parts of the plane. In reality, the president caused a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/17\/1176750125\/biden-australia-papua-new-guinea-g-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"diplomatic rift\">diplomatic rift<\/a> with Papua New Guinea when he scrapped plans to visit last year. No U.S. president has yet visited the island nation, and there are no records of any search that found parts of Finnegan\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Biden for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden implied that cannibals consumed his uncle after his plane crash in WWII, conflicting with military records. 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