<p>President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday that he &#8220;never said a negative thing&#8221; about the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) — but a quick search of his comments during the 2008 presidential campaign alone reveals that Biden&#8217;s statement is not true.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-says-the-government-needs-money-because-theres-going-to-be-another-pandemic/">Biden</a> made the statement during a White House ceremony honoring McCain along with 16 other new recipients — including champion gymnast Simone Biles and soccer star Megan Rapinoe — of the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-medal-of-freedom-honorees-include-gold-star-dad-who-feuded-with-trump/">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>. McCain&#8217;s award was presented posthumously to his widow, Cindy McCain, who currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Agencies in Rome.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will admit to my Democratic friends I’m the guy who encouraged John to go home and run for office, for real, because I knew what incredible courage, intellect and conscience he had,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We ran against each other, which I didn&#8217;t like, on tickets for the highest office in the land. I was a candidate for vice president, he was the candidate for president. I never stopped admiring John. Never said a negative thing about him in my life because I knew his honor, his courage, and his commitment.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“I never stopped admiring John. Never said a negative thing about him in my life because I knew his honor, his courage and his commitment.”</p>
<p>Pres. Biden posthumously awards the late Republican Sen. John McCain with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. <a href="https://t.co/52OXTbD6W2">https://t.co/52OXTbD6W2</a> <a href="https://t.co/k8jxYxlGWA">pic.twitter.com/k8jxYxlGWA</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1545128404462309377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>But during the very campaign Biden mentioned — when he was running for vice president alongside former President Barack Obama and McCain had the Republican nomination — Biden had taken several swipes at the Arizona senator.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2008/10/09/angry-mccain-angers-biden/23925306007/">Criticizing McCain</a> as an &#8220;angry man&#8221; who was lashing out at Obama because he didn&#8217;t like being tied too closely to former President George W. Bush, Biden said of McCain, &#8220;You can&#8217;t call yourself a maverick when all you&#8217;ve ever been is a sidekick.&#8221; He claimed to have stolen the line from Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).</p>
<p>During the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27085394">same Florida speech</a> — in October of 2008 — Biden described &#8220;what a majority of American people are looking for — a steady hand, leadership, an optimist; not an angry man, lurching from one position to another.&#8221;</p>
<p>Biden also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/sppage014-n12405001-oistl/analysis-long-time-pals-biden-and-mccain-now-spirited-foes-idUSN1240500120081013">accused McCain</a> of attempting to take &#8220;the low road to the highest office in the land,&#8221; saying that he was rooting his campaign in personal attacks — prompting some to believe that their long friendship might not recover.</p>
<p>&#8220;With friends like Joe Biden, John McCain doesn’t need enemies. John McCain is not going to forgive. He’s not a forgiving type,&#8221; Paul Light of New York University’s Center for the Study of Congress explained.</p>

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