Biden's history with telling the truth.

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A 1987 Newsweek article stated a supporter asked Biden what law school he attended and how well he had done. A video at the time shows Biden boasting, "I went to law school on a full academic scholarship and ended up in the top half of my class." He also maintained he "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school" and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.” Not one of those claims was true, as newscasters at the time affirmed. In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline. Biden’s 1987 campaign foundered also because he was caught lifting passages of a speech given by Neil Kinnock. Biden echoed (falsely) the British Labor leader’s history that he was the first "in a thousand generations" to graduate from college and repeated virtually verbatim the same story about his wife, just as Kinnock had. More shocking, Biden claimed: “My ancestors…worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours,’’ even though no one in Biden’s family tree ever worked underground. That was Kinnock’s family. It wasn’t the first time; Biden had also been caught plagiarizing during law school. He “borrowed” an entire five pages from a published law review article without attribution and had to beg not to be expelled. Biden supporters will dismiss these episodes as being in the distant past. But Biden’s tendency to mislead did not expire in 1988. More recently he told audiences that after his stint in the White House, “I became a teacher. I became a professor.” While it is true that he took a lofty salary to make a handful of speeches for the University of Pennsylvania, Biden has never taught students. He also told the tale of visiting Afghanistan to honor a heroic naval officer. That also never happened. There were also Biden’s claims of having been arrested in the 1970s because he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. Nope, didn’t happen. He has also cast himself as a civil rights activist and co-sponsor of the Endangered Species Act; those things aren’t true either. Character does not change. Biden’s winning smile and genial nature have granted him license to mislead. But as Biden denies alleged misdeeds related to General Flynn, to his son Hunter’s involvement in Ukraine or to Tara Reade, his history of bending the truth is informative. Biden told reporters before his January 29 visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: "...as vice president, every single Christmas, we spent all of Christmas day at Walter Reed. For eight years, as uh, vice president, I'd come here, we'd spend every Christmas day here, all day." Guess what, not true. Speaking about how well he knows Chinese President Xi Jinping, Biden claimed twice that he has traveled 17,000 miles with Xi. For example, Biden said in a February 5 interview with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell, "I probably spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader has because I had 24, 25 hours of private meetings with him when I was vice president. Traveled 17,000 miles with him. I know him pretty well." Facts First: Biden has not traveled anywhere close to 17,000 miles "with" Xi, as Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler noted. While Biden could accurately say that he has spent many hours and many meetings with Xi -- they spent time together in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 -- Kessler noted that the two leaders often did not even travel parallel routes to their gatherings, let alone physically travel together. The only apparent way to get Biden's mileage past 17,000, is to add the length of his flight journeys between Washington DC and Beijing, during which, obviously, Xi was not with him. I found this information by searching around just a few minutes. So for those who think “uncle Joe” can be trusted, think again. He’s proven himself a liar time after time his entire adult life. Only a fool would think he would start playing it straight now.