Biden Goes On INSANE Tangent, Claims His Grandfather Was Accused Of Murder

President Joe Biden took a moment out of his speech in Pennsylvania on Monday to tell a macabre story about his great-grandfather being wrongly accused of murder - "not a joke," as he put it to the Pittsburg audience.

For 90 seconds, a crowd of supporters holding signs stood quietly behind the 81-year-old president as he retold a winding election story from 1906 when his great-grandfather Edward Francis Blewitt ran for statewide office, "only the second Catholic" to be successful, he said in a clip circulating on X. At the time, political opponents accused Biden's ancestor of being a "Molly Maguire," a century-old term for Irishmen accused of beating up foremen in the coal mines who abused the Irish-Catholic immigrants. The president's remarks came during a Labor Day speech meant to appeal to steelworkers voting for Kamala Harris in the battleground state.

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"A Molly Maguire back in the - in the old days, when we Irish and the Catholic and the Poles and others that were Catholic - when they came to the United States of America in the beginning of the 1840s, late 1840s, made their way down into Pennsylvania. A lot of them - and there's, there's a tier in the coal mines. Those guys who got there last ended up being the last people in the coal mines. But a lot of the English owned the coal mines," Biden recalled as audience members glanced to one another, hoping for a point to the story. "And what they did was, they'd really beat the hell out of the, uh, the mostly Catholic population that was in the mines. Not a joke. Not a joke."

According to Biden, his great-grandfather was a nonviolent politician standing up for the rights of immigrant laborers at a time of widespread abuse. That led to a smear campaign by mine owners who didn't want to see the Irish benefit from Blewitt in the Pennsylvania State Senate. "But there was a group called the Molly Maguires, and the Molly Maguires, they'd find out the foreman who was taking advantage of an individual, and they'd literally kill him," he went on, prompting gasps from the audience. "Not a joke," he repeated, "and they'd bring his body up and put his body on the doorstep of his family. Kind of crude. But I've gotta admit: They accused my great-grandfather of being a Molly - he wasn't."

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