CLAIM: President Joe Biden, 81, recently claimed on The Howard Stern Show that he “got arrested” during the civil rights movement.
VERDICT: Likely false
There is no evidence authorities arrested Biden while defending civil rights, CNN reported:
There is no evidence Biden ever got arrested during a civil rights protest, as The Washington Post and PolitiFact found when they looked into this claim in 2022 — and Biden has at least twice told the story of his supposed presence at this particular Delaware protest without mentioning any arrest, instead claiming that the police merely took him home that day.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Biden made the comment while speaking with Howard Stern. The president recounted what his mother
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