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Joe Biden admits he wasn't actually arrested in apartheid South Africa, contradicting a story he's told for weeks

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Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has typically claimed the mantle of .But throughout the presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his own experience with civil disobedience. And in the past few weeks, he's claimed he was arrested during a visit with Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa with the Congressional Black Caucus and other US officials.On Friday, that the South Africa story wasn't true. Biden has previously made () exaggerated statements about his own involvement in the Civil Rights movement.Since early February, the former vice president has on the campaign trail that he was arrested in apartheid South Africa."This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid," Biden told an audience in South Carolina about two weeks ago, the New York Times reported.&nbsp;"I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island," Biden said.On Friday, Biden came clean. He told CNN that he wasn't actually arrested, but that white Afrikaners during the visit tried to separate him from the Congressional Black Caucus.&nbsp;"When I said 'arrested,' I meant I was not able, I was not able to move," . "The cops, the Afrikaners, didn't let me go with them, they made me stay where I was. I wasn't arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go."Prior to the about-face, Biden's claim was scrutinized by journalists. Andrew Young, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus at the time — and not the US ambassador to the United Nations, as Biden claimed — he wasn't arrested during the trip."If Mr. Biden, then a United States senator from Delaware, was in fact arrested while trying to visit Mr. Mandela, he did not mention it in his 2007 memoir when writing about a 1970s trip to South Africa," .&nbsp;"A check of available news accounts by The New York Times turned up no references to an arrest," Glueck and Kaplan added.Trevor Noah, the host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" and himself South African, said he was "personally offended" by Biden's tale.—The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) &nbsp;Amid Biden's admission, he is looking to the South Carolina primary for a second wind after placing fourth and fifth in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively, and a in Nevada, more than 30 points behind Sanders.&nbsp;In South Carolina, his campaign is banking on a big turnout from black voters, who have strongly supported him for much of the presidential race. Today, however, that support is less guaranteed as Sanders makes with the demographic.&nbsp;The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.

Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has typically claimed the mantle of .But throughout the presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his own experience with civil disobedience. And in the past few weeks, he's claimed he was arrested during a visit with Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa with the Congressional Black Caucus and other US officials.On Friday, that the South Africa story wasn't true. Biden has previously made () exaggerated statements about his own involvement in the Civil Rights movement.Since early February, the former vice...

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