White House Response to Biden Naval Appointment Lie Makes Things Worse – Opinion

The U.S. Senate was awash with people on Friday at their graduation ceremony. Joe Biden stated at the beginning of his remarks that he was a recipient of an Academy appointment from J. Caleb Boggs (the man he later fought against as senator) in 1965.

Before I begin my speech, a thought crossed my mind as I was told the Class of ‘72 is here. In 1965, a Senator appointed me to the Academy. I had been running in 1972 against him. (Laughter.) I never imagined it this way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. When I ran, I was just 29 years old. J. Caleb Boggs was his name.

I didn’t come to the Academy because I wanted to be a football star. There was a Staubach man and Bellino there. Therefore, I decided to go to Delaware.

That was ridiculous, because Biden graduated the University of Delaware in 1965. Of course, Roger Staubach graduated in 1965 from the Academy and Joe Bellino was born in 1961. It was a strange timing. He also received five student deferments in the 60s and allegedly was “unfit” because of asthma in 1968.

He even claimed during the graduation speech that Boggs brought up the appointment during their Senate debate and said that if Joe had accepted the appointment, he wouldn’t be having to deal with him in the race now.

Indeed, Joe Biden — the man who is always pumping himself up — has never mentioned it before. Biden is constantly lying about things to pander to whatever audience he’s in front of. It’s a bit scary that he seems to live in an alternate reality where he just makes up things out of whole cloth that have no basis in reality. That’s the person we have in charge now. Imagine lying to Naval graduate about your Naval appointment. You know what I mean?

The White House’s response to the lies was not honest or truthful.

CBS’s Ed O’Keefe asked about the lie. Karine Jean-Pierre White House Press Secretary looked as though she was wishing to go anywhere while she listened.

CBS’s @EdOKeefe: “I want to just clarify…something [Biden] said…during his address at the Naval academy. [He] was born in 1942, graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965…He said he was appointed [there]In 1965 “Was he?”

KJP states that she did not hear this part pic.twitter.com/pvAxAhEp7B

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 31, 2022

She replied: She claimed she didn’t hear that part of the speech and she’d have to look at it before commenting.

So she doesn’t do her job which is exactly that — to explain Biden and the positions of the White House? Wasn’t she listening to what he said? It makes matters worse. This was evident from the level of interest it received over the weekend.

It’s a simple question: Either he did get an appointment and she can explain why this somehow makes sense or she punts because even they can’t explain this lie, and now they’re hoping everyone will just forget about it and not follow up on it.

But claiming “I didn’t hear it” isn’t an acceptable answer. Even the White House transcript included it. It’s on video. So there’s no question he said it. Americans deserve the truth and Joe Biden shouldn’t be using that excuse. It’s a dangerous situation if he’s making up things like this and his White House is just refusing to answer up for this continual problem.