A lot of Joe Biden’s defenders are out there trying to downplay the ickiness of his “tactile politics.” If they won’t call him out over his wandering hands, will they call him out for this?
I totally forgot that Biden made up a story about how the man who accidentally killed Biden's wife and daughter in a car accident was driving drunk. He wasn't. Despicable. https://t.co/1Cb9x7ejlx
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 6, 2019
More from National Review’s Jack Fowler:
The sad story is 29-year-old senator-elect Biden received the horrible call in December, 1972, that there was an accident in which his wife Neilia and baby daughter Naomi were killed, and his young sons Beau and Hunter severely hurt. Mrs. Biden seems to have driven into a busy intersection, into the path of an oncoming truck. Its driver was Curtis Dunn. Investigators found him blameless. Of no surprise, according to his family, his involvement in the deaths of Mrs. Biden and her daughter weighed on Dunn until his own death in 1999.
It was a heartbreaking story all around, and with officials leaving no doubt of the truck driver’s complete innocence, what was the point of doing or saying anything more than letting Neilia and Naomi Biden rest in peace? As for Joe Biden, the tragedy was so utter that the accident’s circumstances were best left unremarked. Never mind unembellished.
But embellished they became. When exactly, we don’t know. Why? That’s a question the answer to which is unfathomable — or if for political purposes, utterly deplorable. For some reason, the evidence shows, in the early 2000s, Joe Biden began to remark in public that his wife had died at the hands of someone who “allegedly . . . drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch.” That Curtis Dunn “was an errant driver who stopped to drink.” That drunk-driver story spread into news accounts. The Dunn family, who had strong sympathy for Biden, was shocked by the sullying of their now-dead father. They wrote the senator and asked him to stop and reminded him of the exonerating investigation. When that didn’t happen, they went public. Per a 2010 Biden profile in The Atlantic:
For many years, he described the driver of the truck that struck and killed his first wife and their daughter in December 1972 as drunk, which he apparently was not. The tale could hardly be more tragic; why add in a baseless charge? The family of the truck driver has labored to correct the record, but Biden made the reference to drunkenness as recently as 2007, needlessly resurrecting a false and painful accusation.
This isn’t something “America’s goofy, lovable uncle” would do. This is something a garbage person would do.
I think you gotta give him a pass here… grief can change our memories when we don't want to believe what really happened. Maybe he couldn't bear that it was his wife's own fault.
— Nick Rock (@astoldbyNGR) April 6, 2019
Nope. It's one thing to avoid blaming your dead loved one – it's another to say, and I quote from one of Biden's retellings: "someone who drank his lunch." It's on video, and he's done it numerous times. Making something like that up out of whole cloth is despicable.
— Scott "Free Arie"Warren (@big_sarge1) April 6, 2019
Exactly. Grieving or not, there’s no excuse for dragging an innocent man’s name and his family through the mud.
Oh wow.
— Amy ?? (@WaltzingMtilda) April 6, 2019
wow really??? That’s awful.
— abcde (@justhackett) April 6, 2019
It's horrid
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 6, 2019
I honestly didn't know.
The lies are so disheartening.
— Amy ?? (@WaltzingMtilda) April 6, 2019
Never heard that story. That’s horrible.
— Sister Honey??⛈ (@Herfarm) April 6, 2019
I never even knew he said that. That's horrible
— Seegrean (@See_Grean) April 6, 2019
Despicable
— Snad (@Levidog) April 6, 2019
Wow. What a prick.
— Filet o' Fist (@Filet_0_Fist) April 6, 2019
Wow, what a POS!
— Rogue Penguin (@Rogue_40) April 7, 2019
That is some premium grade assholery.
— Tag Sherman (@TagSherman) April 6, 2019
Dear God. Biden is truly despicable. This is the kind of thing that truly proves he’s a bad character. This is the kind of thing that should be truly disqualifying. Corrupt, shameless politician through and through. #UnfitForOffice #Shameful
— Debmoley (@Debmoley) April 6, 2019
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