Biden failed veterans as VP, he’d fail them again as president

Former Vice President Joe Biden makes a lot of claims about the military and veterans in his infrequent public appearances and campaign website, but can we really trust what he says or what he’ll do for veterans as president? The answer is no, as we can see from his record of failure and misrepresenting the truth.

According to a 2019 Axios story, “Biden misrepresented nearly every detail of his involvement in a 2008 war story.” “Almost every part of Biden’s account appears false.” Per interviews conducted by the Washington Post, Biden got the “time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” How can veterans trust Biden when he shows his lack of respect with faked and misrepresented war stories?

Biden’s campaign website lists many accomplishments over his 40-year career in government to bolster his standing with veterans. The real story that veterans know is that during his time as vice president, the VA was poorly run, and veterans were hurt and died. The scandals veterans remember when Biden was vice president were the serious mismanagement of disability claims and the mortal results of misreported health care wait-times.

His first big failure as VP was disability claims. Biden’s website claims that he’s responsible for reducing the disability claims backlog during a scandal that emerged in 2013. During the previous five years, the VA saw claims waiting over 125 days grow exponentially to a record of more than 611,000 backlogged claims, causing veterans to wait for months and years for benefits to help them with their service-connected disabilities.

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