Joe likes to talk and sometimes exaggerates to show empathy, but never claimed to be a civil rights leader. He did say, “I've been involved in civil rights my whole career,” and that is more or less true if you consider being senator and VP as his career.

-- Restaurant: Hutchins (the black athlete) told a reporter from the Wilmington News Journal that his memory had been refreshed and Biden might have witnessed another racial incident. “There were a number of these kinds of incidents and it is clear to me Senator Biden could be referring to any one and be perfectly accurate,” he said.

-- Theater: Richard “Mouse” Smith, the former president of the Delaware NAACP, in 2019 vouched that Biden was there: “We know Joe as the ally who was there beside us to protest the Rialto Theater’s discriminatory policy to segregate moviegoers based on race.”

Your linked article says, "Since then (1987, after he withdrew from presidential bid), Biden's outright fabrications appear to have been largely eliminated."

He admitted that he was wrong about being arrested in South Africa. Dumb and false statement to have made. But he was a staunch critic of apartheid and was traveling to South Africa and Loweto to learn more.

Now compare with Donald Trump.