Even for Joey, this is strange…
According to a New York Post report, President Biden twice implied Wednesday that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea after his plane crashed during World War II.
“He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time,” Biden initially told reporters before boarding Air Force One as he departed Scranton, Pa., where his uncle’s name is etched on a war memorial.
“They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane.”
Military records show Finnegan actually crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Unsurprisingly, Biden has made up most of this war story.
Lt. Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member and ordinance officer, not a reconnaissance pilot.
In 1944, Finnegan was the passenger of an A-20 (a twin-engine, not single-engine plane) that ditched, it wasn’t shot down.… https://t.co/xxIb5dreOB pic.twitter.com/xrn1WuAbTh
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 17, 2024
From The New York Post:
Biden told the story while attacking former President Donald Trump for allegedly skipping a visit to a military cemetery outside of Paris during his term of office after calling fallen US troops buried there “suckers” and “losers.”
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The disputed account of Trump’s words was featured in an article by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that said Trump “blamed rain for the last-minute decision [not to visit the cemetery], saying that ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.”
Documentation emerged in 2020 debunking Goldberg’s account by showing that the Navy made a bad-weather call that prevented the cemetery trip from being made by helicopter.
Biden suggests uncle eaten by ‘cannibals’ in New Guinea — but military says his WWII plane lost at sea https://t.co/krjo4TiA7P pic.twitter.com/sbQlqHK3fI
— New York Post (@nypost) April 17, 2024