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President Joe Biden told South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that, contrary to claims he made on the 2020 campaign trail, he was never arrested while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.
According to the Daily Mail, during a joint appearance at the White House Friday, Biden told Ramaphosa of an incident that occurred in 1990, shortly after Mandela’s release from prison.
“I was a senator at the time, and we met in the Senate Foreign Relations executive committee room,” said Biden. “And [Mandela] came in [and] we all stood there and said hello to him and the like and afterwards, he asked if he could come by my office and he came by to say thank you because he heard I had been stopped trying to get to visit him, to see him in prison.”
“I wasn’t arrested,” Biden added. “I got stopped, prevented from moving.”
