A senior GOP senator ripped Joe Biden as untrustworthy after he repeatedly peddled a strange story about his uncle getting consumed by cannibals in South East Asia.
The tall tale, which the president has told repeatedly, has been directly refuted by a Pentagon report.
Biden claims his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan - known to the family as 'Uncle Bosie' - was in a plane that was shot down over Papa New Guinea during his service in WWII - and that his dear relative was later eaten by local cannibals.
And at the conclusion of a Republican press event bashing Biden's new asylum executive order, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, got caught on a hot mic poking fun of Biden's strange cannibal story.
She told Senator John Kennedy: 'Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.'
Ernst was heard commenting on Biden's uncle as she exited a border presser
Ernst seemingly did not realize her remarks were caught on a hot mic in a room filled with reporters.
The jab at joe was caught as the Republican was walking off stage in a media room on Capitol Hill on a microphone she likely did not know was still on.
The rebuke of the president came after a nearly 45 minute tirade from Republican senators against Biden's immigration plan - and a month and a half after his Uncle Brosie story.
Biden claimed his uncle 'got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.'
'He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time,' Biden said at an event in Pennsylvania recently. 'They never recovered his body.'
The loss of Ambrose Finnegan is detailed in a 'missing aircraft' report made on March 17, 1944 and kept at the National Archives.
Despite not being at the podium the microphones still picked up her bashing Biden
Marked 'Secret' the War Department report shows he was not flying the plane and was a passenger. There were three 'crew' and one 'passenger' on board. Finnegan was listed as a 2nd Lieutenant who was a 'courier.'
According to the report the weather was 'good' when the plane went down and there was 'nil' evidence to suggest whether or not those on board had survived.
While Biden said the plane was shot down, a separate Pentagon report suggested it ditched in the ocean after engine failure.
The report by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said there was a crew of three and one passenger, and the plane departed Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, for a courier flight to Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea on May 14, 1944.
'For unknown reasons, this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,' the report said. 'Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft's nose hit the water hard.'
'Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash.'
'One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members.'
It said Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan was 'the passenger on this Havoc when it was lost.'
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on an executive order limiting asylum in the East Room of the White House
2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan, who Biden alleges was eaten by cannibals
Missing Air Crew Report number 48472D LT AMBROSE J. FINNEGAN
Missing Air Crew Report number 48472D LT AMBROSE J. FINNEGAN
On Tuesday at the GOP press event, Republicans painted Biden as deceitful about his border policies.
'On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden rolled into the White House. He got into the Oval, and he dismantled everything that President Trump had in place that kept a lid on these illegal border crossings,' Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said.
'So now here we are years later, and it has taken 10 million illegal border crossings for President Biden to step up and acknowledge that there is a crisis at the border and you know what, folks? It's his own making,' Ernst continued.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., claimed that Biden's executive action is a bate-and-switch, saying the president wants to look tough on immigration in an election year.
'Our borders have been left vulnerable and the safety of our citizens compromised. And here we stand just five months before this critical election with Joe Biden and the Democrats grasping for a political lifeline,' he said.
'Joe Biden's decisions are basically rubber stamping the presence of cartel and criminal enterprises at our borders and really throughout the entire nation. Now, this is not a policy, this is a betrayal of the American people by the White House.'
Ernst slammed Biden's executive action as being an election year ploy
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, emphatically picked up a poster to demonstrate how many migrants have crossed into the U.S. unlawfully under President Joe Biden
'President Biden isn't addressing the crisis,' Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., said. 'He's maintaining a catastrophe.'
'Since he's been in office, he has allowed all the Trump era policies that work so successfully, to either go away not enforced or he's repealed them.'
'In his first 100 days of office he issued 94 executive orders. President Trump built 500 miles of wall. President Biden stopped that with his executive orders.'
'This President is not serious,' Ricketts continued. 'He has opened our southern border and now because it's election year. He's trying to show the American people that he's taking steps, but we're not going to believe it.'
Sen. Blackburn, R-Tenn., expressed the same sentiments at the event.
'Human trafficking, the sex trafficking, the numbers are adding up and here you go with an election year political gimmick to try to push this issue aside so that [Biden] can go to a debate and say, 'Well, I did something.''
An energized Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., said at the presser that Biden and Democrat lawmakers have presided over 'a criminal invasion of the United States' by allowing over 10 million migrants to enter the U.S. since the president took office.
He alleged that Biden 'deliberately broke the system' and now in an election year the president is trying to fix it.
'They wouldn't eat just any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden
- Papua New Guinea's leader James Marape decried Biden's 'loose' remarks
Local people watching wounded U,S. and Australian soldiers being placed on a row of stretchers. Papua New Guinea, December 1942
Professor Kabuni explained how cannibalism was not practiced due to a lack of food, but instead as a sign of respect in very specific contexts - such as eating a deceased relative's body.
'He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,' Biden told an audience of steel workers in Pittsburgh.
There are no images of Joe Biden's uncle's plane crashing. This photograph shows a Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bomber attack aircraft being shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on the Imperial Japanese seaplane base and harbor installations at Sekar Bay on 22nd July 1944 at Kokas in Dutch New Guinea, Dutch East Indies.
A Douglas A-20 'Havoc' light bomber like the one Biden's uncle was on
The New Guinea Asmat cannibals who killed and ate Michael Rockefeller
Cannibal tribes, such as the Asmat (pictured) inhabit corners of the world that have remained mostly untouched by modern civilisation, and thus have been sheltered from outside influences. As a result, their ways and traditions can date back thousands of years
The Asmat tribe are an ethnic group living in New Guinea, occupying 10,000 square miles of jungle swamp in Indonesia's province of South Papua
Asmat people standing on rafts
A book published in 2014 by Carl Hoffman claims that there is 'clear and abundant' evidence that Rockefeller made it to shore and was killed and ceremonially eaten by the Asmat tribesmen.
The men of the Asmats - a notoriously violent New Guinea tribe - tortured, beheaded and ate Rockefeller in a ritualistic cannibal killing.
The tribesmen became infamous in 1961 after they killed and ate Michael Rockefeller, pictured here adjusting his camera in New Guinea with Papuan men in background
The Grand Valley Dani people (a neighboring tribe to the Asmats) wield their spears and flags for a Baliem festival ceremony performance, which unites local tribes
Grand Valley Dani tribesmen
Holding a cigarette, this smiling Dani leader is covered in silver body paint made of ash and pig fat. A pig rib nose ring completes his silvery look
A tribesman covered in silver body paint sits wearing a head dress and a pig rib nose ring
The Dani languages only have two words for colours: 'mili' for cool and dark shades and 'mola' for warm and light colours
The cannibal Dani tribe take souvenirs from their enemies when killed. This included eating them to gain their power
One of their customs seen in this photo is the wearing of a Koteka, commonly referred to as a penis sheath
The men are losing the tradition of penis sheaths by switching them for trousers and women are also covering up with more clothes
Dani women
Many Dani now live in tin roofed houses instead of thatched huts
Members of the cannibalistic Korowai tribe in West Papua, Indonesia.
A Korowai tribesman uses a bow with a long arrow
The cannibalistic Sentinelese are considered one of the Earth's last uncontacted tribes and are extremely hostile to outsiders.
The Sentinelese tribe has attacked almost everyone who has entered their territory. Pictured: the tribes people are seen wielding arrows on the island
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snapped on Friday when Fox News' Peter Doocy asked why the commander-in-chief is suggesting his uncle may have been eaten in Papua New Guinea during World War Two
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