Syracuse University College of Law has commissioned an official portrait of its most famous cheater.
Not only will Joe Biden have his portrait hung in the place where he got caught plagiarizing as a freshman law student.
But he’s been invited for the portrait’s official unveiling April 14, the school has announced.
“President Biden has never forgotten where his legal career began, and we have never forgotten him,” College of Law Dean Terence Lau said in a press release that must have been conceived by Saturday Night Live’s comedy writers.
It gets even more bizarre.
“His portrait in Dineen Hall will remind every student who passes through our doors that a Syracuse Law education doesn’t just open doors. It can change the course of history,” Lau said.
Actually his portrait will remind every student that if you get caught cheating it could ruin your career – as it did Biden’s twice previously when he ran for president.
The revelation in 1987 that Biden was nabbed copying a paper that wasn’t his when he was a freshman law student in 1965 helped kill his first presidential campaign.
Biden came up with a laughable excuse after it came to light in the campaign.
He said he made a “mistake” that was neither intentional nor “malevolent.“
Biden blamed it on ignorance, claiming he had simply misunderstood the need to carefully cite sources.
The faculty allowed him to repeat the course and later scrub the cheating records from his academic record.
Joe from Delaware also claimed during a campaign swing through New Hampshire that he had finished in the top half of his law-school class, which was a lie.
In fact, he later admitted he graduated near the bottom – 76th in a class of 85.
“Sleepy Joe,” as Trump would say, has done OK for himself, despite having a well-known reputation for plagiarizing – not only in law school but for famously stealing a British political official’s campaign speech in 1988 and pretending it was his own work.
The plagiarism cases were long forgotten until Biden, who was vice president at the time, began testing the waters for the Democratic presidential nomination a second time, in 2015.
He got passed over for the nomination that year in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Despite Biden’s embarrassing international cheating and lying scandals, the Syracuse law school tries to find every opportunity it can to honor him as a virtual saint.
He has given Syracuse Law’s commencement speech four times, once received the Chancellor’s Medal, and was previously given the university’s highest alumni award, the George Arents Pioneer Medal.
The invitations to the April gathering for his portrait will celebrate Biden’s “remarkable legacy of leadership, lifelong public service and enduring connection to Syracuse University,” according to an invitation obtained by the school newspaper.
Can’t make it up folks.
Biden To Be Honored At Official Portrait Ceremony By The Law School Where He Got Caught Cheating
