[Global Network Report Trainee Reporter Li Shirui] According to the British "Daily Mail", New York Post and other foreign media news, US President Biden said in a speech to veterans in his hometown of Delaware on the 16th local time that he had visited Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-torn countries as many as 39 times, and his uncle Frank Biden also won the Purple Heart for his outstanding performance during World War II. However, the media soon discovered the "loophole" in his words and there was a situation of "rewriting history".
According to the Daily Mail, Biden made a "surprising" remark to the veterans in Delaware on the 16th, saying that he had "been in and out of Afghanistan, Iraq and other places 38 or 39 times as a vice president and only twice as a president". According to the report, Biden seems to be "rewriting history" because in fact, his visits to these war-torn countries are only close to 21 times.
Not only that, but the report also said that Biden has traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq many times, including visiting his son who served in Iraq, but he has never visited these two countries as the president of the United States. "His last trip to Iraq seems to be in 2016; The visit to Afghanistan was in 2011. "
At the same time, the Daily Mail said that Biden also told a story that had never been mentioned before. Biden said that his uncle Frank had won a Purple Heart for his outstanding performance during World War II. According to the report, this medal is usually awarded to those who were injured or killed while serving in the US army after April 5, 1917. Biden then described in detail his conversation with his father, mainly how his father Joseph Sr urged him to award the medal to his uncle Frank. Biden mentioned in his speech that after being elected vice president in 2008, he awarded Frank the prestigious Purple Heart Medal at the urging of Joseph Sr.
The report goes on to say that Biden claimed that all this happened during his election as vice president in 2008. "However, his uncle Frank died in 1999 and his father died in 2002, which made such a conversation impossible."
New York Post also noted Biden’s remarks. The media also added that Frank Biden’s tombstone did not indicate that he was the winner of the Purple Heart Medal, and it was not written in his obituary. "Although the database of winners of the Purple Heart Medal is not comprehensive, there is no record of anyone who won the award in the name of Frank Biden in some known registers."
New York Post also said that the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The US Department of Defense turned the issue to the Army — — That is, the department where Frank Biden once worked, but the Army did not immediately respond to comments.
According to a report by Fox News on October 12 this year, Biden made a slip of the tongue when he made a speech in Weil, Colorado, USA. At that time, Biden mentioned his late son bo Biden and said, "I say this as the father of a man who lost his life in Iraq and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Outstanding Service." But Fox News reported that Biden’s eldest son, bo Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015. Biden has made a slip of the tongue in public more than once. According to USA Today, when US President Biden spoke at the White House conference on "Hunger, Nutrition and Health" on September 28, local time, he suddenly called and looked for Indiana Republican Congressman Jackie Wolowski. However, the latter was killed in a car accident in early August, and Biden also mourned the congressman.
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