It appears Joe Biden has been lying about a trip he took to South Africa to meet Mandela.

NEW:Biden recently said,”I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto” trying to see Mandela. Not how the UN ambassador from the ’70s remembers it.
On Biden’s claims of arrest in South Africa, w/ @thomaskaplan https://t.co/AUdTK8PzPh

— Katie Glueck (@katieglueck) February 21, 2020

3x in past two weeks, Biden has recalled getting arrested in South Africa while trying to see Mandela. A search of avail news accounts turned up no references to an arrest&it’s a departure from how he+Jill Biden describe a trip to South Africa in memoirshttps://t.co/Mws4E0XSAm

— Katie Glueck (@katieglueck) February 21, 2020

Twitchy:

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Guys, if this is true, Joe Biden is done.

According to the New York Times, the elderly ex-VP has been lying about getting arrested when he traveled to South Africa in the ’70 in an attempt to meet Nelson Mandela.

The guy Biden was supposedly arrested with says he was never arrested. From the NYT:

Andrew Young, a former congressman and mayor of Atlanta who was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979, said that he had traveled with Mr. Biden over the years, including to South Africa. But Mr. Young said that he had never been arrested in South Africa and expressed skepticism that members of Congress would have faced arrest there.

“No, I was never arrested and I don’t think he was, either,” Mr. Young, now 87, said in a telephone interview. More

Twitter weighs in:

Good old joe, “misremembering” things again?

It is either his memory is so bad he cannot remember what actually happened…
Or he is just outright lying again!

Either way, not a good look!

It is nice of the media to FINALLY report on these things. pic.twitter.com/16lh4E2HJi

— TheBunnyGuy ❤️❤️ (@mdst88) February 21, 2020

i’m in the side of outright lying again, unfortunately.

— Joanne Fitzsimmons (@PJSamz) February 21, 2020

I guess he went to see Mandela the same way he participated in the civil rights movement: in his imagination. Like the way I dated Christie Brinkley when I was a teenager.

— Frederick Polli (@FrederickRPolli) February 21, 2020

Maybe @JoeBiden actually meant he came under sniper fire in Bosnia.

— (@KristineAz) February 22, 2020

He’s trying too hard.

It’s the scent of desperation and it’s kind of embarrassing.

— VStanhope (@stanhope_v) February 21, 2020

When you reach Biden’s age and have a history of plagiarism, war-boosterism, sexism (ask Anita Hill), and cozying up to big money, it’s not a surprise he has become a serial liar (or Alzheimer’s patient).

— Tom Grace (@portsideview) February 21, 2020

Oh God, it’s Hillary coming under fire in Bosnia all over again, or NBC’s Brian Williams banging on about how he was shot at in a helicopter while tailing US Marines on a mission. What’s wrong w. these people? There are enough real incidents in their lives w/out sexing things up.

— Alex Strachan (@astrachanideas) February 21, 2020