Several elements of Joe Biden’s past that he recounted during two interviews with Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur appear to have been fabricated by the Democrat incumbent. An investigative report indicates Biden lied about his role in defeating a lawsuit brought by a welder who lost his genitals in an accident.
The National Pulse first covered the incident when the Biden interview transcripts were released to the public. The 81-year-old President engaged in a lengthy 10-minute monologue describing his early days as a lawyer and politician in Delaware after being pressed by Hurr about handling classified materials in the final days of the Obama government. Biden told Hur about a welder whose pants caught fire, recalling: “…a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel, and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles, and he was 23 years old.”
While Joe Biden eventually worked at the firm representing the defendant in the welder’s case, the lawsuit occurred in 1968 while the Delaware Democrat was still in law school at Syracuse University in New York. Additionally, Biden’s claim that a memo he wrote caused the case to be dismissed was a complete fabrication. The lawsuit was settled with the welder receiving a payout of $315,000 — or approximately $28 million in today’s dollars.
President Biden has faced accusations of plagiarism and fabricating stories throughout his political career. However, the octogenarian Democrat has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years as it appears he has suffered cognitive decline. During the same interview sessions with Robert Hur, Biden was unable to remember the date of son Beau Biden’s death nor when he first became Vice-President under former President Barack Obama.
