Biden says military unable to recover uncle’s remains during WWII because ‘there used to be a lot of cannibals’ in New Guinea

KIFI— By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested twice that the United States was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after Finnegan’s plane crashed near New Guinea during World War II, “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region. Biden’s accounting of his uncle’s death

PJ Media—Biden Says His Uncle Was Eaten by Cannibals in WWII. The Military Begs to Differ.. It must be nice to be president. Every time you open your mouth, the world hangs on every word you utter.

FOX News—Biden claims uncle vanished after crashing in area of New Guinea with cannibals; military has different story. President Biden made a stop in Pittsburgh on Wednesday where he told members of the United Steelworkers Union that his uncle vanished in an area of New Guinea that was populated with cannibals, after his plane crashed during World War II. Biden told the steelworkers that after D-Day, his mother’s four brothers volunteered to join the military. One of those uncles, he said, was Ambrose Finnegan, who went by the nickname Bozey. "He was a hell of an athlete, they tell me, when he was a kid," Biden...

Time—Papua New Guinea’s Leader Calls Joe Biden’s ‘Cannibals’ Claim an Unfair ‘Punchline’. Papua New Guinea “does not deserve” to be stereotyped, its leader said, after Biden suggested his aviator uncle was eaten there during WWII.