President Joe Biden mistakenly claimed his eldest son, Beau, died in Iraq, despite his late progeny succumbing to brain cancer stateside, while referring to the war in Ukraine.
“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq,” Biden said Tuesday. “Excuse me, the war in Ukraine. I’m thinking of Iraq because that’s where my son died … because of that,” he added.
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Joe Biden has misspoken about where his son died before. In Colorado last month, the president said the former Delaware attorney general and military reservist “lost his life in Iraq.” At the time, the White House told the Washington Examiner that the president believed Beau Biden’s 2015 death to glioblastoma was connected to burn pit exposure during the war.
“A lot of people, like [Beau], had their hooch just probably 300, 500 yards from those pits. You could smell it. You could inhale it. Well, guess what? These poisonous fumes just came — people came home with headaches, numbness, dizziness, cancer,” Biden said during an event at the White House on Sept. 5, 2022.
“I signed the PACT law into act, the most significant law helping veterans and their families deal with toxic exposure to those burn pits, which are the size of a football field and 8, 9, 10 feet deep,” he continued nine days later. “A lot of those folks came home with headaches and sickness, and it turns out they have cancer. Many died, more than any other war, from cancer.”
Biden is in Florida on Tuesday to support gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Senate candidate Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) before next week’s midterm elections. There, he criticized Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) for his proposal to reevaluate Medicare and Social Security every year, despite his state’s large retiree population.
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“A senator from Florida going after Medicare and Social Security?” Biden said. “Who the hell do they think they are?”
