FACT CHECK: President Joe Biden repeatedly lies about his own mother and a man dead for almost ten years

[essentialsaltes]

President Joe Biden has a charming personal story he likes to insert into speeches in which he is discussing Amtrak, the rail service he used for decades as a US senator to commute between Washington and his home state of Delaware. Biden has publicly told the story at least 11 times as president, including twice on Monday at a rail-funding announcement in Delaware.

The problem is that the story is not true – as CNN and others have been pointing out for more than two years now.

Facts First: Biden’s story is false in two ways. First, he could not possibly have had this exchange with Negri: He did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments, but Negri had died more than a year earlier, in May 2014. Second, Biden’s mother was not dying at the time he reached the million-miles-flown mark. In fact, she had died more than five years prior.

Negri’s stepdaughter, Olga Betz, told CNN in 2021 that Negri and Biden were indeed friends. She said Negri “adored” Biden and spoke of how Biden was “very thoughtful and personable with the conductors; knew them all by name.” She also provided a photo of Biden hosting a party for Negri in his Senate office when Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993.

The White House did not immediately respond Monday to a request for comment

 

[Yttrium]

Seems mostly harmless. So he's a little delusional. I've seen worse in presidential candidates. Hopefully this will be his last year in office... unless he ends up running against somebody worse off delusion-wise.