Joe Biden has always been a fabulist. Since he first stepped onto the national stage, he has woven myths about his life. Joe needed the gravitas of good grades and a solid academic background to move up the ladder of national politics, so he invented a student who never existed.
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Joe threatened to fight a man who asked about his academic chops and claimed he went to law school on “a full academic scholarship.” Except, he didn’t. He claimed he had three degrees from college. Except, he doesn’t. He claimed he was in the “top half” of his law school class. Nope. He was in the “steerage” section of his law school class.
Biden also famously pilfered a large part of Neil Kinnock’s life story, including stealing one of his speeches, almost word for word. Joe got caught and slinked back to Delaware and the Senate to