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Posted: 5/26/2024 8:44:07 AM EDT
Fact Check: Biden Claims He Was ‘Appointed’ to Naval Academy, Roger Staubach Prevented Him from Attending
CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy West Point that he turned down an offer to play football at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. VERDICT: False. Biden has previously told different versions of this claim to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. In his claim, Biden says he applied to the Naval Academy in order to play football. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by former Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R) in 1965. However, the president graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, which makes it unlikely he would have applied to attend the Naval Academy then. Biden continues to claim that he turned down the offer after finding out that NFL Heisman Trophy winners Joe Bellino and Staubach were playing on the U.S. Naval Academy football team then. Another issue with this claim is that Staubach graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964, while Bellino graduated in 1961, Fox News reported. “I was one of ten. I wanted to play football,” Biden told the graduates. “And, the day that I was supposed to go down for the interview, a classmate of mine who was also one of the ten appointed to be chosen from, named Steve Dunning, came to pick me up.”
Biden continued: “I found out two days earlier, they had a quarterback named Roger Staubach and a halfback named Joe Bellino. I said, ‘Oh, I’m not going there,’ I went to Delaware. Not a joke.” During high school, Biden played football for Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, and graduated from the Catholic college preparatory school in 1961. Yahoo Sports reported: Biden would go on to become one of the state’s best players his senior year. Over the course of eight games, he’d score 10 touchdowns, and his 60 points on the season ranked third overall in the state of Delaware. Along with claiming he was appointed to the Naval Academy, Biden has claimed that he used to drive an 18-wheeler, that he was arrested during the civil rights movement, and that he was the first member of his family to attend college. |
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and about HALF the U.S. population will STILL vote for that lying sack of shit come November
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Did he tell about that time Beau was kilt raising the flag on Iwo?
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What mental midget would keep repeating a story after it has been confirmed to be a fucking lie? Pedopeter is quite the narcissist as he turns everything into a brag story about himself.
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Confabulation is the spontaneous production of false memories. Confabulation typically occurs due to brain damage or health conditions that affect the brain, such as dementia. People who experience confabulation may create memories of events that have never happened. Confabulation can be a symptomatic manifestation of dementia. The false memories that people may create can vary from mundane activities, such as remembering having a steak for lunch when in reality it was soup, to more elaborate or eccentric memories, such as that of being a pirate or a king. View Quote link |
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He just makes up a bullshit story for whatever crowd he happens to be addressing.
If he was talking to the International Association Of Ass Cancer Survivors, he'd tell them about how he miraculously survived ass cancer. Habitual fucking liar. |
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He's always been a lying sack of crap but his "dementia" has added a new twist to visions of his own greatness. And yet....I know people who think he's a "great" president, idiots.
FJB |
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Must be all that TBI from high school football that's caused him to lie for the last fifty years.
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He lies constantly. Why anyone believes him is honestly beyond me.
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Quoted: Confabulation is the spontaneous production of false memories. Confabulation typically occurs due to brain damage or health conditions that affect the brain, such as dementia. People who experience confabulation may create memories of events that have never happened. Confabulation can be a symptomatic manifestation of dementia. The false memories that people may create can vary from mundane activities, such as remembering having a steak for lunch when in reality it was soup, to more elaborate or eccentric memories, such as that of being a pirate or a king. link It's more of a former condition of pathology, modified by his current medical condition. He's been a pathological, bullying lying asshole his whole political career. Just, with the Alzheimer's, it has no boundaries or constraints. He doesn't have the ability to make it sound plausible now, so he just rambles on. In other words, he didn't just start doing this. He's always done this. Just not as audaciously (and he is subjected to more scrutiny by his position of authority as well). |
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Quoted: and about HALF the U.S. population will STILL vote for that lying sack of shit come November View Quote This is true, half or more of the country are true believers in communist ideology or just do not give a damn. They are perfectly content while the USA is being destroyed from within. |
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President Reagan did "senile old coot" with so much more class and style.
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Biden is not trying to fool everybody.
He is trying to fool the people who believe anything they are told. |
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He's like that fat dude on the Twilight Zone, telling tall tales to aliens.
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Fact Check. Everything FJRB JR has uttered in the last 87 years is 99 87/100% fucking lies except the part about banning guns.
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Quoted: It's more of a former condition of pathology, modified by his current medical condition. He's been a pathological, bullying lying asshole his whole political career. Just, with the Alzheimer's, it has no boundaries or constraints. He doesn't have the ability to make it sound plausible now, so he just rambles on. In other words, he didn't just start doing this. He's always done this. Just not as audaciously (and he is subjected to more scrutiny by his position of authority as well). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Confabulation is the spontaneous production of false memories. Confabulation typically occurs due to brain damage or health conditions that affect the brain, such as dementia. People who experience confabulation may create memories of events that have never happened. Confabulation can be a symptomatic manifestation of dementia. The false memories that people may create can vary from mundane activities, such as remembering having a steak for lunch when in reality it was soup, to more elaborate or eccentric memories, such as that of being a pirate or a king. link It's more of a former condition of pathology, modified by his current medical condition. He's been a pathological, bullying lying asshole his whole political career. Just, with the Alzheimer's, it has no boundaries or constraints. He doesn't have the ability to make it sound plausible now, so he just rambles on. In other words, he didn't just start doing this. He's always done this. Just not as audaciously (and he is subjected to more scrutiny by his position of authority as well). It's due to his stutter |
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He serves his father, The Father of All Lies, and gleefully does his bidding...there is no truth in him
John 8:44 |
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10 td would make you one of the best back then Delaware?
Lol there's kids scoring that in 2 games nowadays |
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I hope he actually writes a memoir.
I want to know how he stopped WW1 by killing Hitler. Was a member of the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer was a bad dude. How he desegregated the schools. How he beat Ali and Frazier at the same time in LA during the King Riots. That we was on the grassy knoll when Regan was shot. Oh boy it’d be a fun read. |
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After being constantly rewarded for all his bullshit and lies = why should he stop?
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Quoted: Quoted: What mental midget would keep repeating a story after it has been confirmed to be a fucking lie? Pedopeter is quite the narcissist as he turns everything into a brag story about himself. it's literally a symptom of dementia wrong, its is a symptom of being a POS. |
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There are two aspects of his constant lies that should scare people.
One is that the majority of media never corrects it so the majority of his voters think its all true. Two he probably believes whatever spews from his mouth and he is currently in the WH with his finger on the button. |
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Can we keep an official list or would that crash the site taking up too many resources?
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Fuck Joe Biden is absolutely perfect for the asswipes that vote for him.
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Naval Academy? Football? The same guy that got draft deferments for asthma?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-biden-received-multiple-draft-deferments-vietnam/5809482002/ |
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So when he said as a young black boy he was the first to operate a toaster. We should not believe
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Quoted: There are two aspects of his constant lies that should scare people. One is that the majority of media never corrects it so the majority of his voters think its all true. Two he probably believes whatever spews from his mouth and he is currently in the WH with his finger on the button. View Quote This , back in 1988 , MSM hammered his ass and declared his national political days were over for lying . Now ? |
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Remember, Joe doesn't lie. He just tells stories to 'relate to people.' Now, Trump exaggerating his inauguration crowd size, that's a lie.
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Quoted: 10 td would make you one of the best back then Delaware? Lol there's kids scoring that in 2 games nowadays View Quote Roschon Johnson scored 10 in one game in the playoffs for Port Neches-Groves HS in 2017. https://www.panews.com/2017/11/18/indians-survive-behind-johnsons-10-tds/ |
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Surprised he didn't weave his dead son Beau, who died gallantly on the field of battle, into the speech.
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“I as appointed to the Naval Academy but this Navy Captain who used to fly F-14’s with my father before he died had my papers sidelined. He didn’t tell me until years later when I was training for an attack on an enemy nuclear weapons production facility that it was my mom that asked him to. It pushed my career back years.”
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We currently live in a “post truth” society, where a democrat can literally make up and say anything with no fact checking, but if a republican so much as pronounces the word “potato” wrong it becomes a national scandal.
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If he said, "I was born a poor black child" the press wouldn't correct it and MSNBC would probably start calling him the 2nd black president.
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Quoted: Because Joe Biden lies. That’s exactly what he does. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: What mental midget would keep repeating a story after it has been confirmed to be a fucking lie? Pedopeter is quite the narcissist as he turns everything into a brag story about himself. Because Joe Biden lies. That’s exactly what he does. C'mon man, at least he knows who to honor a few days before Memorial Day! Attached File |
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