Former Vice President Joe Biden is defending the war story he told on the campaign trail that conflated details from different heroic events and got key details wrong.

Biden called the individual details of the story he told ‘irrelevant’ when stacked up against the issue of presidential ‘judgement,’ amid new scrutiny of his reputation for gaffes on the campaign trail.   

‘That has nothing to do with judgment of whether or not you send troops to war, the judgment of whether you bring someone home, the judgment of whether you decide on a healthcare policy,’ said Biden, who has been building a campaign message around his ability to beat President Donald Trump.

‘The details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making,’ Biden told NPR in an interview from Iowa, where he is working to maintain his poll lead.

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