Even for Joe, this is strange…

While speaking at IBEW Local Union #5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over the holiday weekend, President Biden told a long story about how his grandfather was accused of being a “Molly Maguire” while running for office in 1906. It was a weird, rambling story and the audience didn’t know exactly what to make of it.

 
“I remember when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania,” Biden told the audience. “And I remember they talked about – when they’d run against him in 1906 – they said, ‘Guess what? He’s a Molly Maguire.’”
“A lot of the English owned the coal mines and what they did was they really beat the hell out of the mostly Catholic population in the mines. Not a joke,” Biden continued. “But there was a group they called the Molly Maguires. And Molly Maguires, if they found out the foreman was taking advantage of an individual, they would literally kill him. Not a joke. And they would bring his body up and put him on the doorstep of his family.”
A visibly uncomfortable Kamala Harris nodded along.
“Kind of crude, but I gotta admit they accused my great-grandfather of being a Molly Maguire – he wasn’t, but we were so … disappointed,” Biden told the audience before assuring them, “That was a joke. That was a joke.”
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{Matzav.com}