# Does POTUS Biden believe that he's the smartest in the room? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 25, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330 "2022-01-25T00:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/21 "2022-01-25T03:14:04Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Gotta cite or just casting doubt? I thought it was common knowledge. I hope you’ll accept Mother Jones as a cite: > **[That time Joe Biden lied about his academic credentials](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/that-time-joe-biden-lied-about-his-academic-credentials/)** > > The presidential candidate bragged about graduating in the top half of his class at law school. He was 76th in a class of 85. If you don’t want to watch the linked video, here’s what he said: > [@](#): > > **Questioner** : What Law School did you go to, and where did you place in that class? > > **Biden** : I think I have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship, The first year in law school, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class. And then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class. > > I won the international moot court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school. I would be delighted to compare IQs with you. Every single one of those claims was a lie. He claimed he graduated in the top half of the class. He actually graduated 76th out of 85 students, right near the bottom. He claimed he graduated with three degrees. He did not. He has one. He claimed he won the international moot court competition. He did not. He made a big deal of being the only person in his class to receive a full ride academic scholarship, He did not. He received a partial financial need scholarship that had nothing to do with academics. He claims he was the outstanding student in the political science department. That would be tough to do, since he didn’t study political science. I guess that was one of his two imaginary degrees. This is not an isolated case. He has a black mark on his academic transcript for cheating. He plagairized a speech by Neil Kinnock almost word for word, including bafflingly claiming Kinnock’s childhood experiences as his own. In 2007 he claimed he was shot at in Iraq. He wasn’t. He claimed that when a U.S. delegation visited South Africa, he snuck away from the geoup and attempted to see Nelson Mandela in prison, whereupon he was arrested. What actually happened is that he got lost for a minute at the airport, and an airport guard showed him back to his group. He never tried to see Mandela, and was never arrested. He claimed that 'literally hindreds of thousands of people showed up to hear my speech when as a 29 year old I was elected to Congress." Never happened. In the last election he claimed that his house burned to the ground years ago, and his wife barely got out alive. What actually happened was a minor kitchen fire. Worst of all, he continues to claim occasiinally that a drunk driver killed his wife. It’s not true - the other driver was sober and I don’t even think fault was assigned. The driver’s family has pleaded with Biden to stop slandering the guy. Joe Biden is a serial liar and plagiarist, and he’s never stopped. What’s more, he’s a _stupid_ liar, who lies about things that are easily checked. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330)._