President Biden implied Monday that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was being “whitewashed” from school textbooks as he signed a bill to study the creation of an Asian-American history museum on the National Mall in DC.Biden made the bizarre claim at a White House East Room event — where he also mispronounced a guest’s name and questionably asserted that a deadly Atlanta shooting rampage last year was an anti-Asian hate crime.“This year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the incarceration of 120,000 American citizens who were Japanese-American during World War II,” Biden said, “which included — and excuse my reference to two friends — it included a dear friend who as a child, the late Norm Mineta, who went on to serve — he was in those camps when he was a child — went on to serve in the United States Army and in Congress and the Cabinet.
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