Joe Biden just won’t stop.
It’s understandably traumatic for a father to lose a son. I can’t even imagine the pain involved. But there are also certain bounds of decency. Key among them is not to continually exploit that pain.
And Joe Biden has done worse than that by not only building his campaign and public image around Beau Biden, but constantly falsely claiming that he died in Iraq.
It’s happened so many times that even the media has been forced to fact check it.
And now, this Memorial Day, when Joe Biden ought to be honoring the troops, he’s right back to his go-to, treating Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer, as a fallen soldier.
The media, which failed to stop these lies, has now turned to propping them up.
Beau Biden did not die in Iraq. Nor did he die of any illness caused by his service in Iraq. Beau was a JAG. He was a lawyer. In short. He was stationed at Camp Victory near Baghdad. And he was working so hard in Iraq that he didn’t even give up his day job as Delaware Attorney General. The whole thing was very obviously a play (like Buttigieg) to burnish his credentials for higher office.
Joe Biden probably pulled strings to get his son awarded a ‘Bronze Star’ for no comprehensible reason. And then, tragically, Beau died. He didn’t die in Iraq or because of Iraq. Things like this are horrible but they do happen.
It’s hard to know if Joe Biden is pushing the lie that his son died in Iraq for political gain or because he’s simply delusional. The Robert Hur interview established that Joe Biden doesn’t even know when his son died.
Either way inserting his son who died when he was not on active duty (but was at Walter Reed anyway) into Memorial Day is inappropriate and wrong.
Especially for a president who has the blood of actual serving troops in Afghanistan on his hands. And whose administration continues covering up the terrorist attack that took the lives of 13 servicemembers during the withdrawal.
Maybe Joe Biden would be entitled to more empathy if he hadn’t spent the ‘transfer’ ceremony checking his watch (pictured above) but it’s all too clear that he doesn’t give a damn about anyone except his own family.
Every time he talks about Beau and lies about his death, he’s admitting that.