That is still a second-hand account. Worse still, a second hand account of idle chit-chat at an accident scene.
A full investigation cleared him.
But whatever. This guy's memory being tarnished will go on the altar with the rest of the offerings.
No slander is too low in the face of the party's indomitable will.
I seriously doubt that at an accident scene where a young wife of a sitting US senator and her infant daughter had just been horribly killed and with two little boys being taken off in an ambulance with life-threatening injuries was much conducive to "idle chit-chat".
Since all records, including those of the police and the investigation have been lost, all we have is the statement of someone who was actually there and heard what the police said. You have anything better?
This started out with accusations being made by SuburbanTurkey that were shown to be false.
1. "
On numerous public occasions, Biden claimed that Mr. Dunn was a drunk..."
Truth: Biden said so publicly (once using the word "allegedly")
TWICE 6 years apart.
2."Biden made this up out of whole cloth."
Truth: Biden did not make up the "drunk" rumor. As the first responder who was there said, the rumors started with the comments made by the police at the scene which were repeated and "spread like wildfire" among the other fire house services. This was repeated to Biden through the years as true.
3. "Biden lied about this for decades..."
Truth: Biden did not lie as he believed it to be true. He was mistaken.
4. "He later apologized to the man's daughter for slandering her father as the drunk-driver killer of a Senator's family."
Truth: Biden did not apologize for "slandering her father"; he apologized for any pain he had caused her family and acknowledged he was mistaken.
5. "Mrs. Biden failed to stop at a stop sign and got hit by a semi truck."
Truth: The lone witness said Mrs. Biden did stop at the stop sign but then proceeded into the intersection.
6. " Biden decided he could punch up his story of personal tragedy by saying Dunn was a drunk-driver."
Truth: Speculation based on belief that Biden made up the drunk rumors himself...which is untrue.
7. "Biden repeated the false rumor in 2007, 6 years after being confronted by Dunn's family."
Truth: Biden was confronted by Hamill in 2008
after his 2007 remark, not "6 years later".
8. "The family wrote him in 2001 and took his kind words as a sign that Biden would stop spreading this salacious and untrue rumor, only to suffer hearing it again in 2007."
Truth: The 2001 contact did not include any mention of the drunk driving rumor. Hamill stated she had no knowledge of Biden saying this until she saw the 2007 comment in a First Edition episode in 2008.
9: "Hamill wrote in 2001. There seems to have been a misunderstanding, and she understood Biden's "no animosity" statement to mean he'd stop blaming her deceased father."
Truth: Speculation based on the false belief that Hamill's 2001 contact included mention of Dunn being drunk. Hamill stated it was in 2008 that Biden's statements were "revealed" to her.
All of ST's claims above have been proved incorrect (with evidence and citations) or pure speculation based on erroneous beliefs.
If anyone is slandering here, it's those who claim that Biden was
lying and doing so with a self-serving motive.
