The author of a new book has claimed that the US president has “insecurities” related to his 1987 plagiarism scandal
More than three decades on from the plagiarism scandal that torpedoed his first campaign for the White House, Joe Biden remains insecure about how people will perceive his intelligence, the author of a new biography on the US president has claimed.
“One of the things that’s so interesting about Joe Biden is that he has these insecurities that govern a lot of the ways in which he moves through the world,” author Franklin Foer said on Sunday in an NBC News interview. “And so, one of his primary insecurities is that he doesn’t want to be perceived as stupid because he had this plagiarism scandal back in the 1980s.”
As a result, Foer said, Biden insists on thorough preparation before interviews and press conferences so he can have “mastery” of the topics that he will be discussing. “His prep sessions can go on for long…