During a Sept. 14 speech, Biden claimed he taught “political theory” at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite being named an honorary professor and receiving nearly $1 million from the university, there is no evidence Biden ever taught classes at UPenn.
During an Aug. 30 press conference addressing Hurricane Idalia, Biden falsely claimed he and his family couldn’t live at their home “for about seven months” after a lightning strike and subsequent fire
.“Lightning struck my house. We had to the be out of that house for about seven months while it was repaired because so much damage was done to the house and half the house almost collapsed,” the president claimed.
A quick scroll through this lie tracker demonstrates this isn’t the first time Biden has issued this made-up story. According to an Associated Press report, the lightning strike Biden often refers to caused a “small” kitchen fire at his Delaware home in 2004 and was contained by firefighters within 20 minutes.
During an Aug. 28 White House event, Biden falsely claimed he “literally, not figuratively,” talked former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond into “voting for the Civil Rights Act” before the latter died.
There are numerous holes in the president’s baseless claim, the first of which is the fact that Biden was only 21 years old when the Civil Rights Act passed on June 19, 1964. Biden wasn’t elected to the U.S. Senate until he was 29. Moreover, Thurmond not only voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act; he died decades after the measure’s passage (in 2003).
While speaking at anFirst, there are only Seven Wonders of the World, not nine. Secondly, the Grand Canyon is not considered to be one of them.
First, there are only Seven Wonders of the World, not nine. Secondly, the Grand Canyon is not considered to be one of them.
While speaking at the Air Force Academy’s June 1, 2023, graduation ceremony, Biden claimed he “applied to the Naval Academy” and “was picked by a senator,” despite there being no evidence those things happened. He told a similar tale last year at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony, when he claimed he was “appointed to the [U.S. Naval] Academy in 1965.” That narrative was obviously false, as Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965.
