Hamill said she worried that without a Biden rebuttal, the “drunk driver” angle could eventually take root in the public narrative. Biden was elected to his first term in the Senate. The Biden boys recovered from injuries sustained in the crash, which happened six weeks after Mr. Put another way, this man’s word is not to be trusted.” “He has a history of embellishing events which have occurred and occasionally inventing entire stories out of whole cloth if it serves his purpose. “It’s part of a pattern of behavior that we’ve come to associate with Biden,” she said in a Thursday post. Biden’s “mischaracterization of this accident doesn’t surprise me.” Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential primary front-runner, has been criticized for embellishing his speeches with exaggerations and inaccuracies, such as his claim that he met with Parkland students at the White House after the 2018 shooting, even though he left office in January 2017. Joe Biden Lied for Years about the Car Accident that Claimed the Life of his Wife and Daughter Whoa: Did Joe Biden Falsely Smear the Truck Driver Involved in the Car Crash That Killed His First Wife and Daughter? Benson in a Thursday op-ed.Īn extremely difficult and sensitive topic to cover. “The whole situation is sad enough, why embellish it with what amounts to be an unsupported smear of a man who - according to the authorities - was not drunk, did not cause the accident, and immediately sought to ‘render assistance’ to the victims?” asked Mr. Townhall’s Guy Benson called the vice president’s inaccurate references to drinking, which first appeared in 2001, “bizarre and disturbing.” The truck driver was haunted by the accident until he died. Did you know for years told people his wife and 13-month-old daughter were killed by a drunk driver, when in fact the accident was tragically her fault. In 2008, he told the Post that rumors about alcohol playing a role in the accident were “incorrect.”
Herlihy, who oversaw the investigation as chief deputy attorney general, told Politico, “She had a stop sign. Now-retired Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Dunn swerved to avoid the collision, but he “ran to the wrecked car and was the first to offer assistance,” the Post reported. Dunn, who died in 1999, hit the station wagon driven by 30-year-old Neilia Biden as she drove to buy a Christmas tree with the Bidens’ three young children: Beau, 4 Hunter, 3, and Naomi, 13 months. “So we accepted that - and kind of end of story from there.” “He apologized for hurting my family in any way,” she said.