In 2007, President Joe Biden took to the “Late Show with David Letterman” and shared a story for the late-night comic about his purported arrest as a young man for illegally entering the U.S. Senate chamber on a visit to Washington and sitting in the presiding officer’s chair.
It was meant as an amusing anecdote, no doubt, but a viewer in 2021 will be struck by something else entirely.
Biden said he had actually walked into the Senate chamber when he was 21 and got arrested.
Recounting the details of the arrest – which apparently happened on a Saturday – Biden said had been visiting some friends at Georgetown University, and decided to visit Washington because he “was fascinated with the Senate.”
“In those days, no guards stopping you everywhere. And they just got out of session. I walked in the back, all of the sudden I found myself in the chamber. I was stunned. I walked up, sat down in the presiding officer’s seat, guy grabbed by the shoulder, said: ‘you’re under arrest,’” Biden said.
“Literally nine years later, as I walked onto the Senate floor through the same door, that same guy, cop, said to me, ‘Senator, you remember me?’ I said, ‘geez, I don’t.’ He said, ‘I arrested you nine years ago…welcome back.’
The video did spark some questions on Twitter, about whether what Biden was saying is actually true.
“But did it really happen? He’s had a habit of stretching the truth in the past. Like when he ran for president in ’88 and got nabbed for plagiarizing in addition to fabricating stories about his college standing,” wrote one user.
“Did this really happen?” said another.
“No clue. Probably not,” wrote the person who posted the video.
“Most likely a lie,” added another.
As Fox News noted on Sunday: “It was unclear whether or the nation’s 46th president was indeed arrested at the age of 21. But Biden has been caught bragging about other arrests that turned out not to be true.”
Others, on the other hand, outlined how much Biden has changed over the years.
“He looks and talks like a completely different person now,” wrote one user.
“Doesn’t even sound like current Biden,” added another.
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