Biden claims ‘cannibals’ got his uncle — RT World News
US President Joe Biden claimed during his election campaign that his uncle, who went missing in the Pacific during World War II, had been eaten by cannibals.
Second Lieutenant Ambrose Finnegan of the US Army Air Forces was declared missing in May 1944, after his light bomber crashed at sea.
“His plane was shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time.” Biden told reporters outside Air Force One in Scranton, Pennsylvania. “They never recovered his body, but the government came back when they went down there and they examined some parts of the plane and found them.”
Several hours later, at a meeting with members of the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh, Biden told the same story.
“His plane was shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there were a lot of cannibals, actually, in that part of New Guinea.” said the 81-year-old Democrat.
According to the Pentagon an agency For Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW-MIA), Finnegan was never shot down. It was not on a reconnaissance mission, as Biden claimed.
The A-20 Havoc light bomber was on board “Run courier” from Los Negros Island when its engines failed at low altitude, according to the official account of the accident. The plane fell into the sea off the northern coast of New Guinea and two of the three crew members were unable to extricate themselves from the sinking wreckage, which was never found. The only man to survive was rescued by a passing boat.
Biden has told many fictitious tales about his life over his 50 years in politics, most famously about his arrest while in prison. Trying to visit Nelson Mandela in a South African prison. He repeated a scandalous story about the Amtrak captain more than a dozen times.
However, the cannibalism claim about Uncle Ambrose served as a springboard for attacks on his predecessor – and supposed rival – Donald Trump. In a campaign speech in Pittsburgh, Biden told a story about Trump's refusal to honor fallen American soldiers buried in France, describing them as… “suckers” And “Losers.”
The story first appeared in The Atlantic in September 2020, referring to November 2018 events, on the centenary of the Armistice of World War I. Trump card to reject Accusation and invitation “More fake news made up by disgusting and jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 election!”
Documents refuting the Atlantic's claims emerged within days, but that did not stop Democrats from repeatedly raising the claim as if it were true.
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