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Will The Media Fact Check Joe Biden‘s Misleading ‘Grandpop’ Story Like They Did Tim Scott’s?

Ben Johnson
Will The Media Fact Check Joe Biden‘s Misleading ‘Grandpop’ Story Like They Did Tim Scott’s?
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President Joe Biden appears to have embellished the truth about his supposedly hardscrabble family history during a speech promoting the “American Jobs Plan” at a Ford factory on Tuesday.

In one of the speech’s side comments, which came shortly before he jokingly threatened to run over a reporter for asking him a question about the Israel-Gaza conflict, Biden claimed that his “great-grandpop” was a coal miner. But he appears to have debunked that notion himself 17 years ago.

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