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Fox News Political Analyst Juan Williams repeated one of President Joe Biden’s most frequent and abhorrent lies: that Biden lost a son in combat.
The claim came during a segment on Fox News Sunday when Williams offered sympathy for the president, whose family is under multiple federal investigations. Biden is facing a congressional impeachment inquiry over multimillion-dollar global influence-peddling schemes run with his brother, James, and his son, Hunter. Hunter Biden was charged with nine tax-related crimes on Thursday.
“I think that [Joe Biden] loves his son and lost another son in war,” Williams said. “So he’s standing by his son. That’s a family issue.”
President Biden, however, never lost a son in armed conflict. Biden’s son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015. But that hasn’t stopped the president from repeatedly claiming his son died in Iraq. The Iraq War ended in 2011.
“My son was a major in the U.S. Army,” Biden said during a speech to troops in Japan on May 18. “We lost him in Iraq.”
Biden had previously made the false claim in November of last year at a speech in South Florida. The president confused the war in Iraq with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the same address, which was supposedly focused on Social Security and Medicare.
“They talk about inflation … inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq
