US President Joe Biden made a false claim about his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, saying he was “very engaged.” .“As a kid, I worked a lot in the movement,” said Biden at a Monday event. .“I got deeply involved in the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party in Delaware was a southern Democratic Party.” . Joe Biden .Biden said he became more involved with the Democrats as time went by. .He said a group of senior officials approached him one day, asking him to run for the Senate. .Biden has also apparently lied about being arrested for protesting civil rights in 2020. .He participated in one or two civil rights protests over racial discrimination in housing near his house in Delaware when he was a teenager, but he did not organize them. .There is no legal evidence he was arrested for fighting for civil rights. He has deflected by saying the police’s actions were driving him home rather than arresting him. .Biden warned in 1977 without orderly integration, his children would grow up in a “racial jungle, with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point.” .He was opposed to court-ordered bussing to desegregate schools. .Facebook posts with the quote were made by several pages supporting former US president Donald Trump, and the social media platform flagged them as misinformation.
