NEW:Biden recently said,"I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto" trying to see Mandela. Not how the UN ambassador from the '70s remembers it.
On Biden's claims of arrest in South Africa, w/ @thomaskaplanhttps://nyti.ms/2wEWFRb
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3x in past two weeks, Biden has recalled getting arrested in South Africa while trying to see Mandela. A search of avail news accounts turned up no references to an arrest&it's a departure from how he+Jill Biden describe a trip to South Africa in memoirshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/biden-south-africa-arrest-mandela.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage …
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How campaign now explains this:He was on codel and separated from members of CBC when arriving in South Africa:“He was separated from his party at the airport." When a reporter noted that being separated did not constitute an arrest:“It was a separation"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/politics/joe-biden-arrest-mandela.html …
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Biden has said Mandela told him, ‘You tried to see me. You got arrested trying to see me.’” Campaign now says: “it was a reference to Mandela coming to D.C. after he was released from prison, he met with Senator Biden, thanked him for his work, his anti-apartheid work.”
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