Biden's Bizarre Tale About His Uncle and the Cannibals

At this point, I think I've lost count of how many tall tales that Joe Biden has told about his life.

He's a serial fabulist -- saying anything that comes into his head to pander to his audience, to puff himself up or to attack his political opponents. We've seen it again and again, as he tells us about his black, Puerto Rican, cilvil rights activist, truck driving background.

He's in Pennsylvania for a few days to campaign. As he was leaving Scranton to go to Pittsburgh, reporters managed to get in some questions. That's when he told the story about his uncle landing in an area with the cannibals. Now, we all know there are going to be problems with it, but here it is.

He said his uncle, Lt. Ambrose Finnegan Jr. was "shot down" while flying over New Guinea on a mission he volunteered for because "someone couldn't make it." He got shot down in an area where there was a lot of cannibals, Biden said. He explained they never recovered his uncle's body but they did recover parts of the plane.

Biden said he was thinking about former President Trump and how he allegedly refused to go to a "memorial for veterans in Paris" and "said they were a bunch of suckers and losers."

Let's start with the last lie first. The story that was that Trump didn't go to a cemetery and made that comment but it was roundly debunked.

But the story Biden told about his uncle is wrong in virtually every respect, according to the records of the time.

Ambrose Finnegan was a ground crew member, not a reconnaissance pilot. He was a passenger on the plane that went down. It was not shot down. The plane went down in the water, so there probably weren't cannibals out in the middle of the ocean. Finnegan went down with the plane and his body was never recovered. One crew member was found and rescued.

Why would he tell a story like this and throw in cannibals? That's beyond creepy. What the heck does he want people to think here? He's implying his uncle was eaten by cannibals. He said it again in Pittsburgh.

Biden just told this story again for the second time today: He claimed his uncle was a pilot, was shot down over Guinea and eaten by cannibals.

Ambrose Finnegan was a passenger on a plane that was ditched due to engine failure and he drowned in the ocean. https://t.co/zpeRDGVD6g pic.twitter.com/ilCuxjsakq
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 17, 2024

Once again he's trying to use a false story about a family member to try to attack Trump for something he never even said. In the past he's suggested that his son Beau was killed in battle and he mentions him again here.

Yet Biden is the one who's doing his uncle and his family a disservice by embellishing details that were not true about his uncle.

"And that's when Sergeant Bagheera re-innerdeuced me to Private Mowgli. We got along well as we were both practically raised by wolves for a good part our childhoods. Shere Khan was a dictator back then, he was a bab...dude." https://t.co/VsKedBI8FN
— ♞ Steven Douglas 🇺🇸 (@StevieDougie) April 17, 2024