Joe Biden caused astonishment on Thursday after telling a family story, that of his uncle, supposedly devoured by cannibals in New Guinea during the Second World War. The official documents showing that this uncle died in the crash of his plane at sea.
The White House defended Joe Biden on Thursday, saying that the president wanted to pay tribute to soldiers and veterans. The president, who was barely a year old when his uncle died in 1944, went to a war memorial and touched his fingertips to the name of Lt. Ambrose Finnegan, engraved on the marker. His plane was shot down in New Papua, and they never found his body because there were a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of the Oceanian island.