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Three weeks ago Joe Biden told this story:

This day 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested, with our U.N. ambassador, on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens [sic] Island. When he came to the United States, when he came to the White House — to the Senate, I was chairman of the committee, and he walked in, the most incredible thing I’ve ever felt in my life. He walked across in that private room with the big table we have in the executive room, and he walked over. And I said “Mr. President,” and he leaned out and he said “Thank you, thank you for trying to come and see me.”

This story is a fabrication in every detail. But what’s curious about the coverage of it is how all the attention has been focused on Biden’s false claim to have been arrested with Andrew Young “on the streets of Soweto.” (The Biden campaign eventually came up with another story, probably also fabricated, about a completely unrelated purported incident in which Biden was briefly separated from the rest of a congressional delegation on an airport tarmac in South Africa. Except for taking place in South Africa, the two stories have nothing to do with one another).

Interestingly, no attention at all has been given to this part:

When he came to the United States, when he came to the White House — to the Senate, I was chairman of the committee, and he walked in, the most incredible thing I’ve ever felt in my life. He walked across in that private room with the big table we have in the executive room, and he walked over. And I said “Mr. President,” and he leaned out and he said “Thank you, thank you for trying to come and see me.”

That story is completely made up as well, and actually far more offensive and disgusting than lying about having been arrested in Soweto in the mid-1970s. Nelson Mandela is one of the very few politicians of our or any time who can be considered a genuine hero, and for Biden to fabricate some sort of phony benediction from Mandela is just extremely gross, in the worst fashion of narcissistic personalities like Biden.

Speaking of extreme narcissism, note the classic Trumpian structure of the story: Mandela, who almost certainly had no idea who Biden even was when he visited the United States as South Africa’s president in October of 1994, is simply overwhelmed with gratitude for Biden’s performance of a noble act which of course never happened.

I noticed that some commenters yesterday were claiming that the Biden arrest story wasn’t that bad, that it was just some sort of misunderstanding. It wasn’t any kind of misunderstanding: Biden completely fabricated every aspect of this tale from whole cloth.

I very much doubt that even the separation on the tarmac story has any truth, or rather it’s more likely that what happened was that Biden was separated on the tarmac from his African American colleagues in December of 1976, when he was traveling to Lesotho, and felt bad at the time about not saying or doing anything about it. 43 years later that moment, whatever it was, has been transformed into this outrageous malarky, that we’re supposed to pretend is no big deal because Trump is so much worse (which of course he is, but that fact is totally irrelevant to the question of whether Biden should be the Democratic nominee).

Biden is a narcissistic serial liar, with a pathological need to make up stories about his non-existent participation in the civil rights movement. Again, that Trump is an even more extreme example of the same personality type is simply not relevant to the fact that someone like Biden shouldn’t be president, for this and many other reasons.

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