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Cornpop was a nasty dude. However Cornpop apparently has competitors.
Talking on the NAACP Nationwide Conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Biden recalled certainly one of his greatest associates from his childhood.
That pal – Richard Smith, the previous president of the NAACP’s Delaware department – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.
“And certainly one of my greatest associates, we used to, after I was a lifeguard within the tasks, he was a, his identify was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden advised the group.
WATCH: Biden says his greatest pal was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard within the tasks.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 16, 2024
Biden, Mouse, And Cornpop In The Tasks
President Biden usually likes to speak about his time working as a lifeguard within the tasks, although it’s debatable as to how a lot avenue cred comes from palling round with a man named ‘Mouse’ and taking up gang members named ‘Cornpop.’
Richard “Mouse” Smith additionally has talked about Biden’s time as “the one white man” working as a lifeguard within the tasks in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We confirmed Joe that we might settle for white folks,” Smith mentioned in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black people, poor people, all people.”
Biden additionally likes to speak about Cornpop on the identical pool and the way he confronted the gang chief as a result of he wasn’t carrying a swimming cap.
The epic standoff, in response to his model in 2019, concerned Cornpop armed with a rusty straight-edge razor and Biden with a six-foot chain wrapped round his hand.
Cooler heads would finally prevail when Biden apologized for calling Cornpop ‘Esther.’ As a result of apologies all the time work after you’ve threatened a gang chief wielding a razor.
It’s, um, fairly a narrative. It’s mind-boggling that he advised this story whereas surrounded by youngsters on the pool.
“CornPop was a nasty dude.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
— ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ (@Navsteva) July 5, 2024
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Lifeguarding With Bushy Legs
That Cornpop video, by the best way, comes from the identical occasion through which Biden advised the group on the pool about how youngsters favored to play together with his furry legs.
I want I used to be making that up.
“I sit on the stand, and it’s getting scorching, I’ve received furry legs that flip — that — that — that flip — um, blonde within the solar,” he mentioned. “And the youngsters used to return up and attain within the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come again up once more. They’d have a look at it.”
“So, I realized about roaches, I realized about youngsters leaping on my lap, and I’ve cherished youngsters leaping on my lap.”
This may’t be actual life…
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s outstanding that the media noticed clips like this in 2019 however solely simply now in current weeks are brazenly questioning about his cognitive talents.
