The White House and official files indicated on Thursday that the facts do not coincide at all with these statements by the president.
Biden paid tribute to his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan, after visiting a war memorial during a trip election campaign to the President’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Biden, 81, who was one year old when his uncle died in 1944, reached out to touch Finnegan’s name engraved on the monument.
His plane was “shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there were a lot of cannibals, really, in that part of New Guinea,” Biden later told metalworkers in Pittsburgh.
He repeated this to reporters, adding that the plane was shot down “in an area where there were many cannibals in New Guinea.”
The plane fell into the sea
The comment, repeated in different places, once again brings up questions about Biden’s deteriorating mental health, which has been a central focus for several weeks when Biden had severe ongoing blackouts.
Some of them have been to confuse the border of Mexico and the United States as the Gaza Strip, then he called the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the Egyptian president Abdelfatah al-Sisi and other public scene named the president of France Emmanuel Macron for the Francois Mitterrand died decades ago.
The version now about his uncle’s death, which continues to set off alarms, differs from all American defense records.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says Ambrose Finnegan’s plane was headed to New Guinea on a courier flight and was “forced to ditch in the ocean” off the island’s coast “for unknown reasons.”
The plane hit the water and three crew members did not make it out, while one survived and was rescued by a passing boat, it said on its website.
A search conducted the next day found no trace of the missing plane or its crew, he added.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Ambrose Finnegan “lost his life when the military plane he was traveling in crashed in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea,” not on land. But as expected, he defended his boss Biden.
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Source: With information from AFP.
