"Sometimes President Biden just cannot stop himself"

BLACKWELL: “Sometimes, President Biden just cannot stop himself .During his speech today about the economy, he told at least two lies that have already been debunked. Daniel Dale is back after a good stretch with another fact check. Daniel, so, we know the president loves the trains. He loves Amtrak. He told this same story several times about a conversation that he claims that he had during his vice presidency with an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri. Let’s listen to it.”

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Biden:” And so I’m getting on a train, I was seeing my mom who’s sick, in hospice at my home. And this guy, I won’t mention his name because it would get him in trouble, but one of the senior guys on Amtrak I rode with all the time, he comes over and he goes, ‘Joey, baby!’ He grabs my cheek. (…) I said, ‘What’s the matter, Ange?’ He says, ‘I just read this thing about over a million miles on Air Force planes.’ He said, ‘Hell, you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No, Ange, I don’t know.’ He said, ‘We just had a retirement dinner up in Newark.’ He said, ‘You traveled, on average, 117 days a year, a round trip, 300 miles a day, 36 years. That is 1,285,000 miles. I don’t want to hear any more about the Air Force!’ True story. I swear to God.”
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BLACKWELL: “True story. All right, what is the truth?”

Dale: “It’s not a true story. ..”

[These are hardly the worst of his lies, even recently. But at least CNN seems to be acknowledging that the president is a pathological liar. — Ed]