A top Republican senator has called Joe Biden untrustworthy after he repeatedly spread a bizarre story about how his uncle was consumed by cannibals in Southeast Asia.
The tale, which the president has told repeatedly, has been directly refuted by a Pentagon report.
Biden claims that his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, known to the family as ‘Uncle Bosie’, was on a plane that was shot down over Papa New Guinea during his service in World War II, and that his beloved relative was later eaten by cannibals local.
And at the conclusion of a Republican press event criticizing Biden’s new asylum executive order, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, was caught on a hot microphone mocking Biden’s bizarre cannibal story.
He told Senator John Kennedy: “Simply put, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
Ernst was heard commenting on Biden’s uncle while leaving a border press.
Ernst apparently did not realize that his comments were picked up by a hot microphone in a room full of reporters.
The jab at Joe was captured as the Republican walked offstage in a Capitol Hill press room with a microphone he probably didn’t know was still on.
The president’s rebuke came after a nearly 45-minute tirade by Republican senators against Biden’s immigration plan, and a month and a half after his Uncle Brosie story.
Biden claimed that his uncle “was shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be – there were a lot of cannibals, really, in that part of New Guinea.”
“He was shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,” Biden said recently at an event in Pennsylvania. “They never recovered his body.”
The loss of Ambrose Finnegan is detailed in a “missing aircraft” report prepared on March 17, 1944, and preserved in the National Archives.
Despite not being at the podium, microphones still picked up his attack on Biden.
Marked “Secret,” the War Department report shows that he was not piloting the plane and was a passenger. There were three “crew” and one “passenger” on board. Finnegan was listed as a second lieutenant and was a “messenger.”
According to the report, the weather was “fair” when the plane crashed and there was “no” evidence to suggest whether or not those on board had survived.
While Biden said the plane was shot down, a separate Pentagon report suggested it sank into the ocean after engine failure.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency report said there was a crew of three and one passenger, and that the plane departed Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, for a courier flight to Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea, May 14, 1944.
“For unknown reasons, this aircraft was forced to ditch in the ocean off the northern coast of New Guinea,” the report said. “Both engines failed at low altitude and the nose of the plane hit the water hard.”
“Three men did not make it out of the sinking ship and were lost in the accident.”
‘One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search conducted the next day found no trace of the missing plane or the missing crew members.’
It said that Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan was “the passenger on this Havoc when it was lost.”
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on an executive order limiting asylum in the East Room of the White House
Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan, who Biden says was eaten by cannibals
Missing Aircrew Report Number 48472D LT AMBROSE J. FINNEGAN
Missing Aircrew Report Number 48472D LT AMBROSE J. FINNEGAN
At the GOP press event on Tuesday, Republicans described Biden as misleading about its border policies.
‘On the first day of his presidency, Joe Biden arrived at the White House. He came into the Oval and dismantled everything that President Trump had in place to keep these illegal border crossings under control,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.
‘So here we are years later, and it has taken 10 million illegal border crossings for President Biden to step forward and acknowledge that there is a crisis at the border and you know what, folks? It’s his own creation,” Ernst continued.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., called Biden’s executive action a change and said the president wants to appear tough on immigration in an election year.
‘Our borders have been left vulnerable and the security of our citizens is compromised. And here we are, just five months before this critical election, with Joe Biden and the Democrats looking for a political lifeline,” he said.
‘Joe Biden’s decisions are basically a seal of approval for the presence of cartels and criminal enterprises on our borders and, for that matter, throughout the nation. Now this is not policy, this is a betrayal of the American people by the White House.”
Ernst criticized Biden’s executive action as an election-year ploy
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, emphatically picked up a sign to demonstrate how many immigrants have crossed into the United States illegally under President Joe Biden.
“President Biden is not addressing the crisis,” said Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska. “He is maintaining a catastrophe.”
“Since taking office, he has allowed all the Trump-era policies that worked so successfully to go unenforced or repealed them.”
‘In his first 100 days in office he issued 94 executive orders. President Trump built 500 miles of wall. “President Biden stopped that with his executive orders.”
“This president is not serious,” Ricketts continued. ‘He has opened our southern border and now because it is an election year. He is trying to show the American people that he is taking action, but we are not going to believe it.”
Sen. Blackburn, R-Tenn., expressed the same sentiments at the event.
‘Human trafficking, sex trafficking, the numbers are adding up and here’s a political trick in an election year to try to sideline this issue so (Biden) can go to a debate and say, ‘Well, I did something’. ”
An energized Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at the news conference that Biden and Democratic lawmakers have presided over “a criminal invasion of the United States” by allowing more than 10 million immigrants to enter the United States since the president took office. The charge.
He alleged that Biden ‘deliberately broke the system’ and now, in an election year, the president is trying to fix it.