When Barack Obama's uncle Onyango was arrested for DUI the POTUS claimed the two had never met. But the uncle told police that he was going to arrange bail through the White House and that the president had lived with him for a while. Obviously both couldn't have been telling the truth, so the press assumed that the uncle lied.
Well, now as it turns out, the drunk uncle has more credibility that the president of the United States.
President Obama acknowledged Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than two years ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting.
Their relationship came into question Tuesday at the deportation hearing of the president’s uncle, Onyango Obama, in Boston immigration court. His uncle had lived in the United States illegally since the 1970s and revealed for the first time in testimony that his famous nephew had stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time, Onyango Obama was here illegally and fighting deportation.
In November 2011, a White House spokesman told the Globe he had no record of the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that scholars believed the two had never met.
The White House never moved to correct the record, until the president’s fiercely private uncle took the witness stand in Boston immigration court two days ago. [Boston Globe]
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