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Cornpop was a foul dude. However Cornpop apparently has competitors.
Talking on the NAACP Nationwide Conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Biden recalled certainly one of his finest associates from his childhood.
That pal – Richard Smith, the previous president of the NAACP’s Delaware department – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.
“And one of my best friends, we used to, when I was a lifeguard in the projects, he was a, his name was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden advised the group.
WATCH: Biden says his finest pal was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard in the projects.”
— 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 only white guy” working as a lifeguard within the tasks in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We showed Joe that we could accept white people,” Smith stated in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black folks, poor folks, all folks.”
Biden additionally likes to speak about Cornpop on the similar pool and the way he confronted the gang chief as a result of he wasn’t sporting a swimming cap.
The epic standoff, in line with 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 bad 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 by 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 hot, I’ve got hairy legs that turn — that — that — that turn — um, blonde in the sun,” he stated. “And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it.”
“So, I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I’ve loved kids jumping on my lap.”
This could’t be actual life…
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s exceptional that the media noticed clips like this in 2019 however solely simply now in current weeks are overtly questioning about his cognitive talents.
