Cornpop was a bad guy. But it looks like Cornpop has competition.
Speaking at the NAACP national convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday, President Biden recalled one of his best friends from his childhood.
That guy, Richard Smith, former president of the Delaware NAACP chapter, had the nickname “Mouse.”
“And one of my best friends, I was a lifeguard on the project, and his name is ‘Mouse,’” Biden told the crowd.
WATCH: Biden says his best friend was “Mouse” when he was “working as a lifeguard on the projects”
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Biden, Mouse, and Cornpop join the project
President Biden often likes to talk about his time working as a lifeguard on the projects, but it’s debatable how much of his association with a guy named “Mouse” and confrontation with a gangster named “Cornpop” garners public trust.
Richard “Mouse” Smith also spoke about Biden’s time as a lifeguard at the Wilmington, Delaware, projects, where he was “the only white person.”
“We showed Joe that he could accept white people,” Smith said in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black people, poor people, everyone.”
Biden also likes to talk about the corn pops he had at the same pool and the anecdote where he confronted a gang leader who wasn’t wearing a swim cap.
According to his 2019 claim, the epic standoff involved Cornpapp holding a rusty straight razor blade and Biden holding a six-foot chain around his hand.
When Biden apologized for calling Cornpop “Esther,” cool-headed judgment ultimately won out. Because after threatening a razor-wielding gang leader, an apology always works.
Well, that’s quite a story. It’s really amazing that he told this story surrounded by kids at the pool.
“Conpop was a bad guy.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
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Lifeguard with hairy legs
By the way, that corn pop video comes from the same event where Biden told a poolside crowd that kids love to play with his hairy legs.
I wish I could make that.
“I’d be sitting in the stands, and it’d get hot, and my hairy legs would turn and – oh – oh – oh – oh – well, they’d get blond in the sun,” he said. “And the kids would come and put their hands in the pool and rub their legs and straighten them out and watch the hair grow back. They’d watch it.”
“So I learned about cockroaches, and I learned about kids jumping on laps, and I learned that kids love jumping on laps.”
This can’t be real…
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
What’s notable is that while the media saw this footage in 2019, it was only in recent weeks that they began publicly questioning his cognitive abilities.
