President Biden has repeated a lie that he was the first person in his family to attend college — more than three decades after first admitting it’s not true.
The oldest-ever president repeated the untrue claim while touting his efforts to bail out student loan borrowers during a stop Monday at a college in the swing state of Wisconsin.
“I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college and watched my dad struggle to get there,” he said.
Biden has also spoken lovingly of his maternal grandfather, Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, calling him an “All-American football player” for Santa Clara College in California in a 2022 speech.
An obituary for his grandfather also acknowledges he enrolled in Santa Clara College after graduating from high school in Scranton, Pa.
Tim Murtaugh, a columnist for the Washington Times, also wrote that “it’s sad that it has to be pointed out that Biden cannot be the first in his family to attend college, while also having a grandfather who played college football.”
In a statement to The Post, a spokesman for the White House said the president “is proud to be the first Biden to graduate college.”
