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Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction.
Alcohol didn't play a role in the 1972 crash, investigators found. But as recently as last week, the syndicated TV show Inside Edition aired a clip from 2001 of Biden describing the accident to an audience at the University of Delaware and saying the truck driver "stopped to drink instead of drive."
The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing.
"To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him because he's not here to defend himself."
Biden spokesman David Wade said Wednesday that the senator "fully accepts the Dunn family's word that these rumors were false."
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"The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver, is incorrect," said Jerome O. Herlihy, a Delaware Superior Court judge who was chief deputy attorney general and worked with crash investigators in 1972.
Why would Biden accuse this guy of driving while drunk, especially after the investigation said he wasn't? Just to embellish his story and garner more sympathy?
Why would Biden accuse this guy of driving while drunk, especially after the investigation said he wasn't? Just to embellish his story and garner more sympathy?
What kind of person uses his wife's death to get elected and to lie about a man as well!!!
Why is MSNBC and CNN not doing this story???
Gee, I wonder!
Wagt a frigging scumb bag
Why has Obama not spoken about this!!
It's typical Biden. And he's made this spurious charge repeatedly for years. Obama keeps unrepentant terrorists as friends and Biden out and out lies to gain sympathy. Don't the Democrats have one person in their party with at least a modicum of character? I know....stupid question.
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