President Biden raised eyebrows on social media Tuesday after he instructed a crowd in Wisconsin that he watched a bridge collapse in Pittsburg final 12 months.
Biden was touting his financial insurance policies throughout a cease at Ingeteam, a wind turbine generator producer in Milwaukee, when he introduced up the 2022 collapse.
“Plenty of you had been with me once I was in Pittsburgh,” he stated. “By the best way, Pittsburgh is a metropolis of bridges — extra bridges in Pittsburgh than every other metropolis in America.”
“I watched that bridge collapse,” he stated. “I received there and noticed it collapse with over 200 ft off the bottom going over a valley. It collapsed. Thank God college was out through the pandemic.”
President Joe Biden greets friends following a speech at Ingeteam Inc., {an electrical} tools producer, on August 15, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
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The Republican Nationwide Committee posted a clip of Biden’s remarks on X, previously Twitter, including, “That did not occur.”
On Jan. 28, 2022, hours earlier than Biden’s arrival in Pittsburgh for a pre-planned speech, the 477-foot Forbes Avenue Bridge collapsed, injuring a number of folks. Biden reportedly gave his speech 4 miles away from the bridge, and he later visited the location of the injury, however he didn’t witness the collapse firsthand.
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The president has a protracted historical past of exaggerating tales about himself. In November 2021, he stated he “had a home burn down with my spouse in it.” A month earlier, he recounted for the fifth time throughout his presidency a debunked story about an Amtrak worker throughout a speech in New Jersey. The worker Biden regularly talked about truly died a 12 months earlier than the story was stated to have taken place.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to friends at Ingeteam Inc., {an electrical} tools producer, on August 15, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
In 2020, Biden needed to stroll again repeated claims that he was arrested in apartheid-era South Africa whereas attempting to go to Nelson Mandela.
In 2019, Biden instructed a crowd of school college students a harrowing story a few Navy captain in Afghanistan that was later debunked by The Washington Put up.
In 2013, Biden stated he heard the gunshots of an Amish schoolhouse capturing that killed 5 college students whereas enjoying golf close by in Pennsylvania in 2006. The Washington Instances poured chilly water on the declare on the time, reporting that no golf course within the space had any document of internet hosting Biden.
US President Joe Biden and the Mayor of Pittsburgh Ed Gainey go to the scene of the Forbes Avenue Bridge collapse over Fern Hole Creek in Frick Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 28, 2022. (Photograph by SAUL LOEB/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
In 2008, Biden stated his helicopter in Afghanistan was “compelled down” by Al Qaeda insurgents on “the superhighway of terror.” The Related Press later reported {that a} snowstorm, not the enemy, compelled the pilot to land.
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In 2007, Biden stated he had been “shot at” throughout a visit years earlier to Iraq. He later clarified that he was “close to the place a shot landed.”
Biden’s tall-tale telling got here to gentle throughout his first presidential marketing campaign in 1988, from which he ultimately withdrew below the load of a number of plagiarism allegations. Throughout that marketing campaign, he additionally falsely claimed that he attended legislation college on a full scholarship and graduated within the prime half of his class, which he later admitted was unfaithful. He additionally stated on the time that he “marched with tens of hundreds” of individuals through the Civil Rights Motion, however that additionally turned out to be false.
