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Man In Joe Biden Ad Claiming To Be Struggling Small Business Owner Is Actually Wealthy ‘Angel Investor’

Ashe Schow
Man In Joe Biden Ad Claiming To Be Struggling Small Business Owner Is Actually Wealthy ‘Angel Investor’
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Last Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign released an ad featuring a Michigan bar own claiming “a lot of restaurants and bars that have been mainstays for years” will go out of business unless Biden is elected.

The man, Joe Malcoun, claims the bar he co-owns, the Blind Pig, is struggling due to President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response. But as the Washington Free Beacon reported,  Malcoun is actually a “wealthy tech investor whose startup was seeded by a large family inheritance.”

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