Joe Biden faces potential legal repercussions following a report from the Washington Free Beacon, which confirms that he fabricated a story about an incident that purportedly kickstarted his political career.
According to the Free Beacon, Biden has repeatedly recounted a false narrative explaining his entry into politics for nearly two decades, even risking charges of lying to a federal agent during an interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in October 2023.
During his conversation with Hur, Biden claimed that prestigious law firms had offered him positions straight out of law school, and he joined the Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders law firm because they were attracted to his “good looks.”
Biden asserted that he began working at Prickett in 1968 and was tasked with defending the Catalytic Construction Company in a lawsuit filed by a welder who suffered severe injuries while working in a chimney at a Delaware plant. Biden claimed the worker lost part of his anatomy due to the accident.
However, the Free Beacon’s investigation revealed that Biden’s account was fabricated. The incident involving the welder, Joseph Januszewski, occurred in May 1962, not 1968. Additionally, Januszewski did not lose his anatomy entirely, as Biden claimed. Instead, he lost his leg and was wheelchair-bound until his death in 1972.
Biden, in his telling, was tapped to defend a construction company sued by a 23-year-old welder who “lost part of his p*nis and one of his testicles” to a fire that broke out when he was working inside a chimney at a Delaware City plant. The injured man lost the case thanks to Biden’s “shrewd” legal defense on the construction company’s behalf.
Biden told Hur that, in his brief, he leveraged the welder’s failure to wear protective gear and argued the worker bore legal responsibility for his misfortune.
“I wrote this memo. And son of a b—, it prevailed,” Biden told Hur on Oct. 8. “And I looked over at that kid…and I thought, ‘son of a b*tch, I’m in the wrong business, I’m not made for this.’”
Biden said he was so wracked with guilt that he concocted an excuse to avoid a celebratory lunch with one of the firm’s named partners and walked into the public defender’s office to ask for a job that very day. It’s “the only time I ever lied,” Biden told Hur on Oct. 8. Thus began, according to a New York Times report on the special counsel interview, “a career that would one day take him to the White House.”
Moreover, Biden misled about the outcome of the case, as Januszewski ultimately won $315,000 in damages, contradicting Biden’s narrative of prevailing in the case.
The discrepancy in Biden’s story raises questions about his credibility and integrity, and it could potentially lead to legal repercussions, given the serious nature of fabricating events and misrepresenting facts during official inquiries.
