(DailyWire) President Joe Biden appeared to claim during a Wednesday speech in Colorado that his late son Beau Biden died in combat.
Biden was speaking near the popular skiing destination city of Vail, Colorado — where he went to designate Camp Hale as a national monument — and he segued from a story about World War II to a reference to his son, who he claimed had “lost his life in Iraq.”
President @JoeBiden incorrectly said his late son Beau “lost his life in Iraq.” https://t.co/oZ9GRyRjcI pic.twitter.com/8OvjbQgUaT
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 12, 2022
Biden pivoted from a story about how soldiers who trained at Camp Hale had learned to ski and to scale rock formations — skills they would ultimately use defeating the Nazis in Europe — to a mention of his late son Beau.
“American soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division scaled that 1800-foot cliff at night, caught the Germans by surprise, captured key positions, and broke through the German defense line at a pivotal point in the war,” Biden said. “Just imagine, and I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq. Imagine the courage, the daring, and the genuine sacrifice — the genuine sacrifice they all made.”
President Biden’s son Beau joined the Delaware National Guard in 2003, and served in the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, deploying to Iraq for a year in 2008. He passed away in 2015 after a battle with glioblastoma — the same kind of brain tumor that the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was battling when he passed away in August of 2018.
