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While trying to console a family who had just lost their soldier daughter in a drone strike in Jordan last weekend, Joe Biden said he can understand their pain because his son Beau died in Iraq.
Except he didn’t. President Beau Biden’s son died of brain cancer in 2015. Biden has repeated this lie more than once.
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‘My son spent a year in Iraq; That’s how I lost it’
Biden’s phone call to the grieving family began as best he could under the circumstances with news of a posthumous promotion.
The New York Post reports, “The 81-year-old commander in chief mentioned his family tragedy in a call to Shawn Sanders and Oneida Oliver-Sanders, which was recorded by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”
“During Tuesday’s conversation, Biden said Army Spc. Kennedy Sanders, 24, would be posthumously promoted to sergeant,” the Post noted.
The story continued:
“Oh wow, this is the best news I’ve heard today, thank you so much,” Oliver-Sanders said as she and her husband began to cry. “You don’t know how much this means to us.”
“Oh, well, I’ll tell you what, it means a lot to me,” Biden responded before adding, “My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost it.
Beau Biden died of brain cancer in May 2015 at age 46, nearly six full years after he returned from a seven-month mission in Iraq. The president has previously explained that he believes exposure to toxic fumes from “burn pits” caused Beau’s fatal illness.
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This isn’t the first time Biden has said Beau died in Iraq
This isn’t the first time the president has done this.
“Last August, Cheryl Rex, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, who died in the suicide attack on August 26, 2021 at Kabul International Airport, recalled his interaction with the president”, reports the Post. “His words to me were: ‘My wife Jill and I know how you look. We also lost our son and we brought him home in a flag-draped casket,” Rex said at a forum convened by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).”
The lives of American soldiers are more important than any election, but when the current president of the United States, who is seeking another four years in office, fails to get it right, and his seemingly deteriorating cognitive abilities continue to be a problem – at what point do you stop doing it?
Maybe he can’t stop. Or maybe she does it on purpose. Which is worse?
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