"I'll be there," Biden said.
That was Biden's first known civil rights protest.
In the summer of 1965 Joe Biden was 22 years old and had just graduated from college. According to every statement he's ever made about his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, including every lie, every book, every speech, including the very speeches that Joe Biden gave just this week, and last week, and the week before that, Joe said that he was protesting as a 17 year old in 1960. Never, once, has Biden said he attended a protest in 1965 after his senior year of college.
In fact, I searched local, regional, and national archives and not a single protest was documented at the Rialto theater in 1965. It was formally and legally integrated in 1963. But here's the strange thing - the author of the story, Robert Samuels, said he called the Biden campaign to confirm the dates and the facts of the story, and that they "confirmed" that what Mouse said was true - that it was Biden's first protest and that it did happen in 1965.
Without saying it, the campaign basically confirmed that everything Biden is saying on the campaign trail right now is a lie.
Because Biden has said 5 times on the record in the past 2 months that he did loads of civil rights work, from protests to trainings in Black churches, all in 1960 when he was just 17.
Mouse said it was one fluke moment that happened 5 years later.
The campaign confirms it was 5 years later.
But records don't even show anything like that happening at the Rialto 5 years later.
What a mess.
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