Biden Admits He Was Never Arrested In South Africa

The Daily Beast reports:

Former Vice President Joe Biden conceded Friday that he was never arrested while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa, as he’d said on the campaign trail. “I guess I wasn’t arrested,” Biden told CNN’s New Day in a Friday interview. “I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go.”

Earlier this month, Biden said during a campaign stop that he’d “had the great honor of meeting” the anti-apartheid leader.

On Friday, Biden finally admitted that the story was much different than he’d initially described, saying he told police while on a congressional delegation to South Africa that he was “not going to go in that door that says white only” and separate from his black colleagues.

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