White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre danced around questions on Thursday about President Joe Biden apparently “embellishing” the story of his uncle’s death and going so far as suggesting that he was eaten by cannibals after being shot down in World War II.
Biden is on the final day of a three-day campaign tour of Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, in Pittsburgh, the president aimed to critique his 2024 Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, by recounting the death of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, a U.S. Air Force pilot who was killed while serving in World War II.
“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden said before knocking Trump for referring to World War II veterans as…
