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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 one in every of his greatest pals from his childhood.
That pal – Richard Smith, the previous president of the NAACP’s Delaware department – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.
“And one in every of my greatest pals, we used to, once I was a lifeguard within the initiatives, he was a, his identify was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden informed the gang.
WATCH: Biden says his greatest pal was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard within the initiatives.”
— 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 initiatives, although it’s debatable as to how a lot avenue cred comes from palling round with a man named ‘Mouse’ and taking over 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 initiatives in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We confirmed Joe that we might settle for white individuals,” Smith mentioned in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black of us, poor of us, all of us.”
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 accordance 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 ultimately prevail when Biden apologized for calling Cornpop ‘Esther.’ As a result of apologies at all times work after you’ve threatened a gang chief wielding a razor.
It’s, um, fairly a narrative. It’s mind-boggling that he informed 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 informed the gang on the pool about how youngsters favored to play along with his furry legs.
I want I used to be making that up.
“I sit on the stand, and it’s getting sizzling, I’ve received furry legs that flip — that — that — that flip — um, blonde within the solar,” he mentioned. “And the children 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 beloved 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 skills.
