As in the past, Biden told the story on Friday while recounting what his mother supposedly said while urging him to accept Barack Obama’s 2008 offer to be his running mate.
His mom, he said, did not want him to turn down a man who was vying to become the first Black president.
No other Biden memoir, either, says he was arrested at such a protest.
They include the false claim that he “used to drive an 18-wheeler” and the false claim that he has never earned $400,000 in a year.
After media outlets found no evidence of such an arrest, Biden told CNN that he had been “stopped” in South Africa but did not mean to say arrested.
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