Biden said at least three times that he was arrested attempting to visit Mandela on his prison island near Cape Town. The story attracted scrutiny because of glaring geographical issues — including…
President Biden on Friday finally came clean, during a visit to the White House by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa — admitting, “I wasn’t arrested” trying to visit Nelson Mandela, despite saying so at least three times in 2020.
Biden then fessed up, “And I said once — I said I got arrested. I wasn’t arrested, I got stopped, prevented from moving. But he was extremely gracious.” On one occasion in February 2021, Biden told a South Carolina audience that I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Mandela] on Robbens [sic] Island.”
Biden spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield admitted to the Washington Post that the story was false and that Biden “was separated from the [Congressional Black Caucus] members he was traveling with at the airport, when he landed… It was a separation. He was not allowed to go through the same door as the rest of the party he was with.”
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