X users called out President Joe Biden for claiming to be the first in his family to go to college. The President made the claims in a recent speech on Monday, April 15, 2024. While giving a speech in Wisconsin on Monday, Biden made the claim, touting his latest student loan handout.
While discussing debt and college, Biden made the following claim: “I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, Was the first in my family to go to college and watch my dad struggle to help me get there.” However, observant users, including conservative influencer Greg Price, did not let Biden’s statement go unnoticed.
Price tackled Biden’s claim in an X post, sharing a clip from a presidential speech two years prior. In the clip, Biden bragged that his grandfather played college football. However, the claim is at odds with his recent bit about being the “first” to attend university.
“Joe Biden just said in a speech in Wisconsin, ‘I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college,'” Price’s post stated. “That is a lie.” Price continued, “One of the reasons we know it’s a lie is because Biden has bragged several times in the past about how his grandfather played college football.”
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He described the other clip: “The video on the right is a speech from October 2022.” In it, Biden declared that his grandfather would “really be proud of me right now. I’m not joking; he would.” Biden added, “By the way, he was an All-American football player.”
Furthermore, Price shared a post from the RNC Research X account. The post pointed out how The New York Times caught Biden making the same contrary claims in 1987. The account shared parts of the article scrutinizing Biden’s plagiarism, which he faced criticism for that year.
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“Mr. Biden had said he was the ‘first in his family ever to go to university,” the nearly 40-year-old article stated. “In fact, Mr. Biden said today, ‘There are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.'” Following Price’s posts, National Review senior writer Dan McLaughlin backed up the point.
“It’s not just a lie; it’s a lie he was publicly caught telling 37 years ago,” McLaughlin said. Similarly, the Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway commented on Price’s post, making the same point that RNC Research did. “Also, this was one of the lies that forced Biden out of his first presidential campaign in the 1980s,” she wrote.
Hemingway added, “Absolutely pathological.” Chaya Raichick, the woman behind the “Libs of TikTok” account, also criticized Biden for his contradictory statements. “This dude is a pathological liar on top of being senile,” Raichick wrote.
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Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee expressed frustration at how Biden gets away with his contradictory statements. “But will anyone in the media call him out for it? Nope,” he said. “They give his shoes a tongue bath every day and seem to enjoy it.”
Furthermore, the conservative influencer duo “Chicks on The Right” joined the critics who called Biden out. “How anyone believes Biden about anything ever is a complete mystery,” the duo said. “It’s sad,” author and Washington Times columnist Tim Murtaugh remarked,
“That it has to be pointed out that Biden cannot be the first in his family to attend college.” Murtaugh added, “While having a grandfather who played college football.”
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