The Legend of Super Joe Biden grows by the week. He’s now claiming that he was arrested in South Africa when he tried to visit the imprisoned Nelson Mandela.
The Democratic presidential candidate told some version of the following story at one campaign event in South Carolina and two in Nevada over the past two weeks, per The New York Times: On a visit to South Africa decades ago, he claims he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison and got arrested.
“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,” Biden can be heard saying in a video from the South Carolina event on Feb. 11. “I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on [Robben] Island.”
Andrew Young, the U.N. ambassador when Biden visited South Africa in the late 1970s, says nothing like that ever happened, and Biden did not mention it in his account of that trip in his autobiography.
Ironic, isn’t it, that Trump spent so much effort and got himself impeached by trying to sabotage a Democrat who’s doing a perfectly good job of sabotaging himself. By next week we’ll be hearing about the time cops beat him bloody on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.