mo4ch:>Pants on fire! Joe Biden’s campaign says he was never ‘arrested’ trying to visit Nelson Mandela | Mo4ch News

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden claimed he was arrested in the 1970s while trying to visit jailed South African civil rights campaigner Nelson Mandela. After critics called him out, his campaign now denies the claim.Courting the black vote in South Carolina and Nevada this month. Biden brought up his 1970s visit to South Africa, taken when he was a Senator for Delaware. He told a South Carolina crowd that he “had the great honor of being arrested with our UN ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see [Mandela] on Robben Island.” At a black history awards event in Las Vegas last week, he claimed that Mandela himself later thanked him for his anti-apartheid efforts.“He threw his arms around me and said, 'I want to say thank you,'” Biden told the crowd. “I said, 'What are you thanking me for, Mr. President?' He said: 'You tried to see me. You got arrested trying to see me.'”Something was amiss. Soweto is more than 700 miles from Robben Isla…