During a speech 4,000 miles from the nearest 9/11 national memorial, Joe Biden declared he was at Ground Zero on Sept. 12, 2001.
The only problem with his statement? It wasn't true.
President Biden made the claims from Anchorage, Alaska, on the 22nd anniversary of 9/11. Addressing a crowd of 1,000 service members and first responders, Biden recalled seeing the devastation in Lower Manhattan the day after the attack. “I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell,” he added.
Video from CSPAN-2 shows then-Sen. Biden giving a speech from the Senate floor on that very same day. (RELATED: Biden Gets An Earful From Fox News After Embarrassing Vietnam Presser)
CNN continues:
Biden, returning from a whirlwind trip to Asia, said in his Monday remarks at a military base in Alaska: “I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow: never forget. Never forget. We never forget. Each of us – each of those precious lives stolen too soon when evil attacked. Ground Zero in New York – I remember standing there the next day, and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell, it looked so devastating because of the way – from where you could stand.”
Facts First: Biden was not at Ground Zero the day after 9/11. He actually went to Ground Zero nine days after the attacks.
Asked Monday night about the claim, the White House provided a photo and article showing that Biden, then a senator for Delaware, toured Ground Zero on September 20, 2001. A White House official then emailed this comment on condition of anonymity: “The President first visited the World Trade Center nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of a bipartisan delegation from the Senate.”
As The New York Post noted on Monday, Biden wrote in a 2007 memoir that he “headed back to the Capitol” on September 12, 2001. He spoke that day in the US Senate.
CNN further noted that Biden falsely claimed three times to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. He didn't arrive at the scene until six hours after the bridge's structural failure. On multiple occasions in 2021 and 2022, Biden erroneously said police officers arrested him during a civil rights protest. He has also claimed to have tried to give his uncle a Purple Heart while he was vice president, but his uncle refused to accept it. However, this claim has been proven at least partially false (Biden's uncle died in 1999 – a decade before he was sworn in as vice president).
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Biden is such an idiot! Does he not realize that everything for the past 30 years (at least) has been reported and recorded? And the Internet never forgets! Every one of his lies and fantastical claims has been debunked multiple times. He just needs to stick to the scripts his puppet masters have written for him. He is not very good at ad libbing.
Anybody else notice his “gates of hell” plagiarized Hillary?
The president misremembers things to suit his purposes. He enters the battle of wits totally unarmed.
This chronic and habitual liar,is just a sick,evil,senile,frail,lying,old,puppet,fool. He would’nt know the truth, if it smacked him in the face.The delusional,nincompoop. believes his own lies, now that is,dangerous and laughable.His entire career he either plagerized,lied,or fed a line of crap, he is the laughing stock of America, I’m sure our adversaries and allies are getting a good laugh/cry?