FALSEHOOD #11: Joe Biden falsely claimed that he was arrested protesting for civil rights.

He said, “I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds, but I walked other grounds. Because I’m so damn old, I was there as well. You think I’m kidding, It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.”

Joe Biden made this false claim on January 11, 2022, during a speech in Atlanta.

EXPLANATION: This is false. There’s no record of Biden being arrested or being heavily involved in any civil rights movement. Multiple fact-checking outlets investigated his claims, and determined that they were false.

Biden has made false claims about his involvement in the civil rights movement before. He was quoted saying, “I was not down marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

SOURCES

Kessler, G. (2022, January 14). Analysis | biden claims yet another arrest for which there’s little evidence. The Washington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/13/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-which-theres-little-evidence/

Doyle, K. (2022, January 12). Biden says he was arrested during civil rights fight, a claim he’s had to recant before. Washington Examiner. Retrieved December 14, 2022, from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-says-he-was-arrested-during-civil-rights-fight-a-claim-hes-had-to-recant-before

Jacobson , L., & Cercone, J. (2022, January 13). Evidence scant that Joe Biden was arrested protesting for civil rights. Politifact. Retrieved December 14, 2022, from https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/13/joe-biden/evidence-scant-joe-biden-was-arrested-protesting-c/