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Jill Biden’s ex-husband said he knew that Joe Biden had trouble with the truth the first time they met — and the budding politician swiped a story from Bill Stevenson’s life and passed it off as one of his own.
The 75-year-old told The Post that Biden was running for the US Senate in 1972 when he stopped by the Stone Balloon, Stevenson’s new night spot in Newark, Delaware. Stevenson told Biden an anecdote about how his mother had asked his prep-school football coach why the schedule for the season’s games was prominently posted in the women’s bathroom. The coach gave a funny answer that Stevenson repeated to Biden.
“No disrespect … [but] that’s where our schedule belongs: in the ladies’ room,” said the coach — the implication being that the losing team was playing like “a bunch of girls,” said Stevenson.
Two hours later, after Biden was introduced to the club’s bouncers — all of them University of Delaware football players — he repeated the same story as if it were his own — right in front of an astonished Stevenson.
“I just stared at him in shock,” Stevenson told The Post. “He just acted like it was his own story. I just told myself, ‘This must be what politicians are like.'”
The Post has reached out to the White House for comment.
Stevenson, who slammed what he called the“Biden crime family” in an interview with Newsmax this week, said he is including the anecdote in his upcoming book on the first family, “The Bidens: The Early Years,” which is due out in the fall.
“People are only now starting to think that something is wrong with Joe, but back then I saw the roots of his plagiarism,” said Stevenson, who married the future first lady in 1970 when she was still a university student.
“I knew that he had some issues when I met him in 1972, although I always thought he was a charming guy back then,” Stevenson said.
Biden has had a penchant for borrowing lines from other people’s work. In 2020, he lifted lines from a Canadian politician’s speech during the Democratic National Convention that year. In 1987, he withdrew from the Democratic Party’s presidential race in shame after he reportedly ripped off UK Labor party leader Neil Kinnock’s words in a debate.
Stevenson said he supported Biden twice when he ran as vice-president with Barack Obama — and was a key supporter when Biden ran for the US Senate in 1972.
In fact, Stevenson said he raised $3,000 to fund a union picket line, organized by mob hitman Frank Sheeran, to help Biden — a longshot candidate — win the election. The picket was meant to prevent copies of the local Delaware newspapers, the Morning News and the Evening Journal, from hitting the newsstands in the campaign’s final days when they contained advertisements for Caleb Boggs, Biden’s opponent. (Sheeran was later immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film, “The Irishman.”)
But Stevenson said that he was moved to break his silence this week after first son Hunter Biden was scheduled to receive sweeping immunity under the terms of a sweetheart plea deal on tax and gun charges. The deal, which would have seen him plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes and enter a diversion program on a felony federal gun charge, was torpedoed by US District Judge Maryellen Noreika Wednesday.
The situation with the first son was like deja vu, said Stevenson, who told The Post that he was threatened by Biden’s family during his divorce from Jill in the mid-1970s.
Stevenson said Biden’s brother, Frank Biden, told him that if he didn’t give up his house to Jill he would face “serious problems.” Months later, Stevenson and his brother were indicted on charges for $8,200 in unpaid taxes — the same charges Hunter faces — and he believes that the Bidens weaponized the Department of Justice against them.
“What happened to me nearly destroyed my life. So when I saw that Hunter Biden was walking away with misdemeanors for not paying more than $2 million and a gun charge, I wanted to speak out,” said Stevenson.
Stevenson ran his storied concert venue which featured appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Robert Palmer and Metaliica, among others, until 1993, and has largely remained silent about his ex wife and the president, he said.
“I can’t let him [Joe Biden] manipulate the justice department again,” he continued, adding that he believes Biden is using the DOJ to derail former President Donald Trump, who Stevenson now supports.
“Joe practiced on me, and I want everybody to know that something is going on here, and that he’s done this before.”
Stevenson claims that he and Jill first met Biden and his then-wife, Neilia, in 1972. (Neilia died in a car accident, along with daughter Naomi, in December of that year.) The Bidens have claimed they met on a blind date in 1974. Jill was officially divorced from Stevenson in 1975 and married Joe two years later.
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