Biden Tells College Lie Again During Rally to Announce Latest Student Loan Giveaway

Biden Tells College Lie Again During Rally to Announce Latest Student Loan Giveaway


While Democrats and left-wing media pundits love to fact-check former President Donald Trump, often incorrectly, they aren’t so willing to do the same for President Biden, known for either embellishing his life experiences or lying about them outright.

During an event to announce another seemingly illegal student loan giveaway on Monday, it was the latter: Biden repeated the false claim that he was the first person in his family to attend college, Newsmax reported.

“I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college and watched my dad struggle to help me get there,” Biden said Monday at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.

Biden also made the claim about being the first member of his family to go to college during a CNN town hall when he was running for president in 2020, according to The Washington Times.

However, Biden acknowledged the claim was untrue more than 35 years ago when his 1987 campaign unraveled amid a plagiarism scandal that saw him lift remarks from a British politician, according to the New York Post.

Then, Biden told The New York Times that “there are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.”

In 2020, census records showed that Biden’s father attended Johns Hopkins University for one year, the York Daily Record noted. A 1941 wedding announcement in the Scranton Tribune said the president’s dad “attended Johns Hopkins University.”

During his 2016 commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, Biden shared the story of his maternal grandfather, Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, who played football at Santa Clara College in California.

Biden joked that “Grandpop” Ambrose didn’t care for Santa Clara being referred to as the “Notre Dame of the West,” choosing instead to call the Fighting Irish the “Santa Clara of the Midwest,” Santa Clara Magazine reported.

Greg Price, communications director for the State Freedom Caucus Network, noted the lie about Biden being the first in his family to go to college on the X platform.

“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.’ That is a lie. 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,” Price wrote in a post that contained two short video clips proving his point.


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