Presumably because he couldn’t find an excuse to equate the fires in Maui somehow to the death of his late son, Beau Biden, Old Joe the Sock Puppet first made a ham-handed effort to equate the tragedy in Lahaina to the car-wreck deaths of his first wife and daughter in 1972:
You really should go view that clip at this link and watch how Dr. Jill reacts when Biden raises that analogy. She obviously hadn’t expected it.
As if that allusion weren’t bad and tone deaf enough, the Sock Puppet then took to lying about a minor kitchen fire he experienced years ago in one of his many fabulous vacation homes while visiting Lahaina for a few hours on Monday.
For the record, as the New York Post reports, the fire was minor and easily doused within 20 minutes of its having been reported.