Joe Biden Drops Bombshell: Great-Grandfather Was a Suspected Killer Coal Miner in Shocking Rally Confession!
Joe Biden says his great-grandfather was suspected of being a killer coal miner in an alarming admission during a rally alongside Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania.
President Joe Biden spoke to crowds in the critical swing state ahead of the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris – addressing cheering union members marking Labor Day in the industrial city of Pittsburgh.
In his slightly long-winded explanation of a story about his great-grandfather’s mining days, Biden said: “I remember when my great grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania…And I remember they talked about – when they’d run against him in 1906 – they said, ‘Guess what? He’s a Molly Maguire.”
Biden continued to further explain the convoluted story, adding: “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…But there was a group they called the Molly Maguires,” he went on. “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.
“Kind of crude, but I gotta admit they accused my great-grandfather of being a Molly Maguire – he wasn’t, but we were so damn disappointed.” Vice President Kamala Harris called herself, and unions, an ‘underdog’ as she vowed to fight for union power at a Labor Day campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday.
In their first joint address since President Joe Biden left the race, Harris told workers and union leaders at the IBEW Local Union #5, “Let’s not pay too much attention to those polls because as unions and labor know best – we know what it’s like to be the underdog, and we are the underdog in this race – and we have some hard work done ahead of us.”
She added, “But here’s the beauty of us in this room. We like our work, good work, this joyful work,” to cheers. She also vowed to continue to “fight for a future where every worker has the freedom to organize,” naming Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) as a crucial part of that fight.
The goal of the rally, held with Biden, where she spoke for a total of 16 minutes, was to reiterate the Biden White House’s previous policy that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned and operated. “I couldn’t agree more with President Biden: U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated,” Harris said at the rally.
Their message aligns with the White House’s previous opposition to the company’s proposed sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel, showing Harris’ allegiance to Joe Biden’s previous labor laws policies. Biden touts himself as “the most pro-union president in US history.”
Despite his age of 81 and a long political career closely allied with labor, President Biden chose to introduce Harris at this event, a reversal from the norm, signaling his desire to showcase her contributions to union workers at one of the nation’s grandest Labor Day events and passing the proverbial torch.
It still marks a significant policy stance for the vice president, who has presented relatively few since Biden withdrew his reelection bid and endorsed Harris in July.