Biden Falsely Claims He Presented Late Uncle With Purple Heart During Vice Presidency
While speaking in his home state of Delaware on Dec. 16, President Joe Biden raised some brows when he recounted an impossible story about his late uncle Frank.
The president was addressing attendees of a Delaware Veterans Summit and PACT Act Town Hall in New Castle when he launched into an account of how, after he became vice president, his father had asked him for a favor.
“He said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge … and he won the Purple Heart and he never received it. He never—he never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We’ll surprise him,’” Biden recalled….