Biden Repeats False Claim About 1967 Israel Trip

Even during his recent appearance in a war zone, President Joe Biden’s penchant for sharing provably false claims about his past was on full display.

He arrived in Israel this week, where he repeated the false claim that he met with then Prime Minister Golda Meir just days before 1967’s Six-Day War.

Biden insisted that he posed for a photo with Meir during the supposed visit and she replied: “You look worried, senator.”

After admitting that he was worried about the threat of war, he claimed that she shared a quip.

“Don’t worry,” she allegedly told him. “We Jews have a secret weapon in our fight. We have no place else to go.”

Of course, a cursory review of the relevant timelines shows that Biden was not yet a senator in 1967 nor was Meir the prime minister of Israel.

That has not stopped the president from sharing the same account on previous occasions, including in late 2021 when the claim was fact-checked by multiple sources and deemed fundamentally untrue.

CNN attempted to cushion the impact of its 2021 fact-check by asserting that “Biden misspoke about when his meeting with Meir occurred,” adding that the visit actually took place weeks before the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

The report did acknowledge, however, that Biden “inflated his importance to Israel at the time” and that there was “no evidence that Meir had any intention of using him as any sort of ‘liaison’ between Israel and Egypt” as he had claimed.

A number of critics took to social media to express their disbelief that he would once again share the same story despite being previously confronted with its fallacy.

Biden’s apparent inability to tell the truth about his past has become so unavoidable that even once-supportive mainstream media sources have begun to call him out on his falsehoods.

In early 2022, CNN compiled a lengthy list detailing “Biden’s first year in false claims.”

More recently, the same outlet reported three separate inaccurate statements about his past from just one speech and his subsequent insistence that he visited Ground Zero the day after the 9/11 attacks when he did not actually make the trip until more than a week later.