Biden’s Oft-Told Background Claims Fail Fact Checks

President Joe Biden has reportedly been fact-checked on various claims, including his involvement in civil rights activism, having an uncle who was cannibalized, driving an 18-wheeler, and knowing Vladimir Putin for over 40 years.

Fact-checks conducted by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Washington Free Beacon did not support the President’s claims.

According to the Times, Biden’s claim of driving an 18-wheeler was disputed, with the White House citing his job as a school bus driver during law school. There was also uncertainty about him driving an 18-wheeler, with only a 1970s newspaper report of a 500-mile trip on a cargo truck.

Previous reports by the Times revealed that Biden exaggerated his involvement in the civil rights movement and falsely claimed to be the first member of his family to attend college. Additionally, his story about a heroic uncle who was cannibalized in New Guinea has no backing from military records or anthropological evidence.

The Free Beacon highlighted Biden’s assertion to ABC News that he has known Putin for over 40 years, which would mean they had met when Putin was a KGB officer. However, historical records show that Putin only became a public figure in the late 1990s.

Biden has also made unsubstantiated claims about being arrested in apartheid South Africa in 1977 while attempting to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, as reported by the Washington Post in 2020.