But from the early 1970s, until this very week, when Joe Biden mentions stories of his work in the Civil Rights Movement, something very un-Joe like happens - the details are scarce. He has no color or nuance on how he felt as an activist or organizer, who he was with, what it looked like, what it sounded like, or what the specific actions were.
Was he afraid? Was he arrested like everybody else? How come his name doesn't appear in the arrest records? What did he tell his dear mother and father and siblings when he joined the Civil Rights Movement and participated in such bold actions? Who did he travel with to and from each action? What did his classmates and teachers and mentors think? How did the sit-ins end? What did the owners of the restaurants and movie theaters say to him? All of these details, and so many more, are left out, I have found, because they simply do not exist.
Where are the photos? Where are the images or newspaper clippings? Where are the details from Joe Biden in any of his books? Why was it so thoroughly omitted from the entire presidency of Barack Obama?
Below, I have carefully tracked and detailed the painful, disturbing lies Joe Biden has made for nearly 50 years about his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
I have interviewed esteemed historians of the Civil Rights Movement as well as countless historians of Delaware history.
I have interviewed living legends and elders from the Civil Rights Movement in Delaware that were in Wilmington and all over the state when Joe Biden claimed to be doing courageous work in the movement.
I have carefully combed through archives of every single newspaper article ever written about the Civil Rights Movement in Delaware, over 1,000 total articles from the time Joe Biden moved to the state until he became a United States Senator.
I have found and carefully cataloged every single mention of Joe Biden's work in the Civil Rights Movement in newspapers, books, and magazines from 1973 until this morning.
I have found and carefully cataloged every video mention by Joe Biden of his "work" in the Civil Rights Movement. And my findings are below.
It is amazing that Joe Biden has gotten a pass on this for so long. Current and former elected officials in Delaware told me that it is an open secret among them that Joe Biden is a serial pathological liar when it comes to his "work" in the Civil Rights Movement and that he has told such lies, for so long, so many times, that it is an unwritten rule in Delaware that one must hold their nose and go along with them or risk being ostracized in such a small, close-knit political community. He is a legend there - and crossing him is akin to political suicide. Below, I will begin to unpack and explain the lies.
Videos of the Old Debunked Lies Joe Biden Told About His Role in the Civil Rights Movement
On February 26th, 1987 Joe Biden began giving speeches in New Hampshire as he prepared to run for President. Here he made multiple false claims about marching in the Civil Rights Movement saying, "When I marched in the Civil Rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program, I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes, and we changed attitudes."
Except Joe Biden never marched in the Civil Rights Movement. Not once. He didn't march with or without a 12 point program. It was a complete fabrication. Seven months later Biden explicitly admitted as much when his campaign crashed and burned. What's doubly disturbing about this is that multiple staffers on his campaign begged him to stop telling this lie. They knew he had never marched in the Civil Rights Movement, but he continued telling the lie anyway.
I spoke directly to Matt Flegenheimer of The New York Times who really broke the video above about where he first unearthed the quotes from Biden's 1988 presidential campaign staffers. "It's all in a book that you've gotta get. It's by Richard Ben Cramer. It's massive. It's called What It Takes: The Way to the White House and it's all about the 1988 presidential race." I bought it as soon as Matt and I hung up the phone.
Cramer, who won the Pulitzer Prize, was a brilliant writer. He conducted over 1,000 interviews for the book, which is seen by many as the single best text ever written on modern presidential politics. It's exhaustive. And there, plain as day, are Biden's staffers talking about how desperately they wanted Biden to stop telling the lies about working in the Civil Rights Movement. He acknowledged that they were right, but kept on telling the lies anyway. Here's Kramer, in Chapter 25, speaking to campaign staff:
"How he started in the civil rights movement, remember? The Marches? Remember how that felt? And they're nodding in the crowd, and he's got them, sure. Trouble is, Joe didn't march. He was in high school playing football. The gurus would shake their heads. "That's not marching." And Joe would say, "I know, Okay." But then a week later, another crowd, and Joe would do it again.
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