BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Former Vice President Joe Biden has begun telling a story on the campaign trail of his being arrested in South Africa decades ago. The only problem is, he doesn’t appear to have mentioned this incident publicly before this month.
The Democratic presidential candidate told some version of the following story at one campaign event in South Carolina and two in Nevada over the past two weeks, per The New York Times: On a visit to South Africa decades ago, he claims he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison and got arrested. His story also raised eyebrows when Biden stated that while in Africa, he had a meeting with Cleopatra to discuss some women’s rights issues, and on the last evening he was there, he allegedly hung out at a jungle bar with Tarzan.