- President Biden’s first public speech following his announcement that he would seek re-election contained a wildly inaccurate statement about the time and place of his grandfather’s death.
- Biden, 80, claimed that his grandfather “died in the same hospital I was born in two weeks before I was born” as he addressed the North America’s Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference in Washington on Tuesday.
- The president appeared to be referring to his father’s father, Joseph H. Biden, an oil executive who died on Sept. 26, 1941, in Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to an obituary published at the time.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr. was born more than a year later — at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pa.
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POTUS Falsely Says He Was Born Where Granddad Died ‘Two Weeks Before’
POTUS Falsely Says He Was Born Where Granddad Died 'Two Weeks Before'
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol in the Rose Garden of the White House Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
