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honest.abe

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1. This "scandal" is from 1987.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:05 AM
Jul 2020
A video posted on Facebook by Brad Parscale includes an old clip of Joe Biden listing his academic accomplishments, followed by news reports refuting the claims.

The clip of Biden comes from a campaign stop he made in April 1987 in New Hampshire. C-SPAN published the footage, which shows Biden confronting a voter.

Biden misled on a variety of claims about his academic career, including his law school class rank and how many undergraduate degrees he had. He issued a statement in September 1987 after news reports corrected his record.

In his 2007 autobiography "Promises to Keep," Biden addressed his comments on the 1988 campaign trail. He said he lost his temper because he was getting sick with the flu, and "it sounded to me as if one of my own supporters doubted my intelligence."

"At a small campaign event in Claremont, N.H., I lost it. I shouldn’t have been there in the first place," Biden wrote. "I didn’t feel any better afterward; what I’d said was a quick and stupid rant that I wished I’d never said. Worse than that, without realizing it I’d exaggerated my academic record."

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/07/ad-watch-fact-checking-video-about-bidens-academic/

If this is the best they have we have nothing to worry about!

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