Biden Repeats Bizarre Lie That His Son Died In Combat

President Joe Biden on Tuesday spoke with the family of one of the three American service personnel killed in a drone attack last week, sharing his family ties to the army during a touching conversation.

Biden made a call to the family of Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia, who was killed along with Sergeant William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia, in a drone strike on Sunday at the Tower 22 base that sits along a U.S.-enforced demilitarized zone between Jordan and Syria.The president also recalled his son Beau's military service, saying: "My son spent a year in Iraq; that's how I lost him." Biden added during the call: "My son Beau, he [had] been near a burn pit in Baghdad and came down with stage four neuroblastoma, a brain tumor, and lost him, too."

Beau Biden, the president's eldest son, served in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard from 2008-2009, including a seven-month deployment in a combat zone. He died in 2015 and was posthumously given the Delaware Conspicuous Service Cross, presented for "heroism, meritorious service and outstanding achievement."

He did not die in Iraq, however, which Biden has created the impression of elsewhere. As the president said, Beau died of brain cancer, which he believes was linked to toxic burn pits in Iraq, on May 30, 2015, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.