President Biden has repeated a lie that he was the first person in his family to attend college — more than three decades after first admitting it’s not true.
The oldest-ever president repeated the untrue claim while touting his efforts to bail out student loan borrowers during a stop Monday at a college in the swing state of Wisconsin.
“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 get there,” he said.
He acknowledged it was untrue more than 35 years ago when his 1987 presidential campaign unraveled in a plagiarism scandal that saw him lift remarks from a British politician.
Confronted about plagiarism and a number of inaccurate statements at the time, Biden acknowledged to The New York Times in 1987 that “there are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.”
Years later, though, Biden repeated the same claim during a CNN town hall when he was running for president in 2020, according to The Washington Times. “Biden resurrected an old lie,” the Trump campaign wrote at the time.
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