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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Joe Biden’s History of Lying | Larry Elder
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Before the second and last debate, I tweeted, pleaded to President Trump, please bring up Curtis Dunn.
You see, President Trump is having difficulty with women.
Many women, especially suburban women, do not like his style, do not like his tone.
I don't know what's going on with her.
Such a nasty woman.
Hillary Clinton's going to be a horrible president.
Every time I think about Trump, I get allergic.
And when you're a star, they let you do it.
You can do anything.
Y'all ready for this?
You gotta see this guy.
I don't know what I said.
I don't remember!
I would imagine it can only get worse.
They're bringing crime.
They're rapists.
But we have some bad hombres here, and we're gonna get them out.
And some, I assume, are good people.
We're gonna build a wall.
Who's going to pay for the wall?
And I think you can see I'm having a good time.
I really am.
Rosie O'Donnell's disgusting.
I mean, both inside and out.
You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs.
Take a look at her.
She's a slob.
Slobs and disgusting animals.
Your Twitter account.
Only Rosie O'Donnell.
Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful.
They're worried about my tone.
Now, the story of Curtis Dunn will not suddenly make suburban women love Donald Trump.
He won't suddenly become warm and fuzzy.
But it will do something about the image of Joe Biden, which, as Don LaMond says, is that of a comfortable, old, warm sweater.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood.
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
I've always wanted to live in a house like yours, my friend.
Maybe when there's nobody home, I'll break in.
So, who is Curtis Dunn, and why should President Trump have brought him up in that crucial debate?
Just a week before Christmas 1972, the wife of newly elected Senator Joe Biden and their baby daughter were killed, and their two sons badly injured when the Biden family car was broadsided by a truck at this intersection in Delaware.
The truck driver, Curtis Dunn, was never charged in the crash.
Now, as you heard, Curtis Dunn was the driver of the truck that struck and killed Joe Biden's first wife and
young daughter and badly injured his two sons.
Very, very tragic.
The man was wracked with guilt.
But at least on two occasions, Joe Biden publicly and falsely asserted that Mr.
Dunn, during the accident, was drunk.
Dunn died in 1999, but since then, his family has endured widespread rumors and reports that he had been drinking just before the collision.
At least twice, Biden himself has made public references to alcohol being involved in the crash.
In 2007, Biden said the truck driver, quote, allegedly drank his lunch.
And multiple news outlets, including CBS News, have reported that Dunn was drunk.
Notice that Joe Biden also said, and I'm quoting, and I didn't pursue it, meaning I presume that he had a legitimate lawsuit against the man who struck and killed his wife, but he magnanimously decided not to pursue it.
This is from a 2019 article from the Detroit News.
But decades later, Biden, on at least two occasions, in 2001 and 2007, offered an inaccurate version of Dunn's role in the accident, referring publicly to the truck driver who stopped to drink before driving and describing the driver as a guy who allegedly,
and I never pursued it, drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch." Now, what exactly did Biden say in 2001 about this accident?
To the loved ones of the victims, there is nothing really we can say to erase this tragedy.
And those of you who think it's presumptuous of me to say that in a different circumstance, I got one of those phone calls.
I got a phone call saying, your wife's dead, your daughter's dead.
And I've only said that three times in public before.
But I say it here because it is so important for you to understand.
I got one of those phone calls.
It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them.
End of quote.
Now, Mr.
Dunn's daughter, according to that newspaper article, got in touch with Joe Biden to set the record straight.
In 2001, Hamill, the daughter, wrote a heartfelt letter to Biden expressing her father's profound grief after hearing Biden make a post-September 11 speech in which he told the audience that, given his history, he could empathize with victims.
Growing up, my dad never talked about it.
He always got very solemn around Christmas time because the anniversary was December 18 and he never wanted to celebrate the holidays, the daughter said.
When newspapers had anniversary articles about the crash, we hid them from dad.
Biden responded in a handwritten note, which in part reads, All I can say is I am sorry for all of us, and please know that neither I nor my sons feel any animosity whatsoever.
End of quote.
So, mattered handle, right?
End of case?
Well, not exactly, because Biden said the same thing again years later.
Here's what he said in 2007.
Quote, let me tell you a little story.
I got elected when I was 29.
And on December 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree, a tractor trailer, a guy who allegedly and I never pursued it, drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my With what we thought were at the time permanent fundamental injuries, end of quote.
Again, Biden said, and I never pursued it.
But was the man drunk?
No!
The truth is, it was a tragic accident.
No alcohol was involved.
Well, the daughter would say that, right?
But what about the man now turned judge who investigated the accident?
The police reports have been lost, but Delaware Judge Jerome Herlihy, who investigated the crash, supports Hamill.
He tells CBS News there was no indication that the truck driver had been drinking.
And according to Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, who oversaw the police investigation 36 years ago as chief prosecutor, there is no evidence supporting Biden's claim.
The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver, is incorrect.
Police determined that Biden's first wife drove into the path of Dunn's trailer tractor, possibly because her head was turned and she didn't see the oncoming truck.
Dunn, who overturned his rig while swerving to avoid a collision, ran to the wrecked car and was the first to render assistance.
Police filed no charges against Dunn, who at the time lived in Northeast Maryland with his wife Ruby and their seven children." And back to the Detroit News.
Quote, by all accounts, Dunn was absolved of wrongdoing in the accident with no evidence that speeding or alcohol was a factor, end of quote.
Again, according to Dunn's daughter, the man was wracked with guilt, even though it wasn't his fault.
If anything, the fault was Joe Biden's first wife.
He grieved over that.
He was haunted and tormented by that for years.
Again, to not only once but twice be publicly accused falsely of having been drunk when you struck and killed a senator's first wife and daughter.
And the second time Biden said it, Dunn's daughter reached out again.
Hamill, dismayed by the misrepresentations, crusaded to correct the record and got some media attention for her efforts.
Biden later called her, at first agitated about the impact the controversy was having on his own mother, who he said had to go on anxiety medication, in the daughter's recounting.
Further, Biden told her that it was his own son, Beau, who had had to retrieve the accident report.
Then he was very apologetic, Dunn's daughter continued.
By this time, I was in tears.
He said, I'm sorry.
Don't cry.
I will come to your home with all your family there and apologize.
But Biden told her he would not issue a public apology, telling her that it would end up in all the trashy magazines in the grocery store, end of quote.
After 2007, it appears that Biden never publicly said it again.
But who says it once, let alone twice, a nice, comfortable, warm, old sweater?
Last fall, a spokesman for Biden said Biden fully accepts the Dunn family's word that these rumors were false.
Nice, old, warm sweater.
It's one thing to lie about things like, well, the NAACP has endorsed me in all of my races, when the NAACP hasn't.
It's another thing to say, well, I was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela when Nelson Mandela was in prison.
No evidence that he did that.
No evidence that when Nelson Mandela got out of prison and Joe Biden was vice president, he went to the White House to thank Joe Biden for attempting to visit him.
No evidence of that.
No evidence that for decades, Joe Biden Has claimed he'd been working to desegregate restaurants and movie theaters in Wilmington, Delaware, got his start in the black church.
People at the black church say, who?
Where?
What?
No evidence of any of that.
It's one thing to make those kinds of lies because you're not demeaning a human being.
It's another thing to falsely publicly accuse a man of having been drunk when he struck and killed Joe Biden's first wife and child when the man was not drunk.
What old sweater does that?
And it's too bad the American people were not informed of this during that second debate.
I believe it would have made a difference.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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