President Biden’s retelling of a 15-year-old story about a minor fire at his Delaware home is facing renewed backlash after he told victims of the deadly Hawaii wildfires Monday he shared “a little sense” of what they were going through.
While visiting the fire-ravaged remains of Maui, Biden recalled the fire that started at his Wilmington home due to lightning.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” Biden said. “Years ago, now 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press’. … Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home. Not a lake. A big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the … air condition ducts.
President Biden speaks during a community engagement event at the Lahaina Civic Center in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 21, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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