Though there is more to President Joe Biden’s acts than meets the eye, they may appear to be mocking.
Biden’s trip to Delaware brings up the topic of passenger rail, particularly Amtrak. If you are aware with the president’s penchant for embellishing stories, continue reading.
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Throughout his address, Biden talked about how he frequently traveled on Amtrak and how the conductor never ceased to remind him of this “fact.”
“When I was vice president, I flew over a million miles on Air Force Two, but I traveled further than that on Amtrak over the years,” Biden informed the crowd.
“I was coming home to see my mom, and I just — she was living at this time, my dad had passed away. And I got on the train on a Friday, and I won’t get him [the Amtrak conductor] into complete trouble, I’ll just tell you his first name, but I’ll just tell you his first name. He was No. 2 in seniority at the time, Angelo,” Biden said.
“And Ang came up to me as I was walking in, and he said, ‘Joey!’ and he grabbed my cheek, and he said, ‘Joey, Baby!’” Biden continued.
“They had just published in the newspaper that I had traveled 1,200,000 miles on Air Force planes as vice president, they published that on a regular basis,” Biden said. “He said ‘Big …’ — I won’t quote him exactly — but he said, ‘Big deal, Joey!’
“And I said, ‘What’s it mean, Ang?’ And he said … you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘A million … [and] 320,000 miles.’ And I said, ‘How do you figure that?’ And he said, ‘Well, 180 days a year, almost 300 miles a day, 36 years.’”
Presenting the renowned conductor, Angelo Negri. His name is unmistakable because it has reverberated throughout history. The New York Post has verified that throughout his administration, this compelling story was told an astounding 12 times.
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And it’s just untrue.
Here’s the thing, though: During the initial telling of this story in 2021, Fox News and Red State, two groups that CNN referred to as “conservative media outlets,” had observed some, well, discrepancies. In this way, CNN in 2021—that is, the network that at the time still had Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, and Jeff Zucker on staff—performed a “fact check.”
And even CNN reached this conclusion at the height of its leftist agitprop: “Biden keeps repeating a false story about an Amtrak conductor he knew.”
“Biden’s account simply does not add up,” the fact-check noted. “Biden did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments. But Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014, according to an obituary published online and in the Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper.”
When it came to covering Biden’s behind, the best that CNN could do during the Lemon-Cuomo era was that “Negri’s stepdaughter, Olga Betz, said Wednesday that while she can’t confirm Biden’s story, she knows for certain that he and Negri were friends.”
Is it really that easy to write off the man who made up a tale about being jailed in South Africa during the apartheid era in order to see Nelson Mandela? Let’s think of extending an olive branch to him.
This Amtrak narrative has really been shown to be untrue. And no, I don’t mean “literally” in the way that Biden likes to use it. “figuratively, but in bold, italicized 48-point font” However, it is literally untrue. To allow the president some leeway, the story’s specifics occasionally shift and become a little more ambiguous, but they never completely contradict one another.
Furthermore, as the RNC Research social media account of the Republican National Committee revealed, Biden repeated this ridiculous falsehood twice in less than an hour on Tuesday:
At this moment, it’s unclear if this is a troll or not. Watch as “conservative media outlets” like Fox News, Red State, and ourselves yell and cry about how the president is unable to move past the memories of the unfortunate Angelo Negri and cease fabricating stories about him. Rinse, wash, and repeat. Take a seat and chuckle at the headlines about “Pinocchio Joe.”
Regardless of their pursuit of indictments against former President Donald John Trump, Democrats’ best chance of securing another term for Biden rests on his ability to demonstrate both his mental and physical toughness.
Biden often repeats the Negri tale, despite the fact that it is blatantly untrue and has been thoroughly verified. He is not benefiting from this.
Why not think about bringing Negri back to life and having him challenge Biden? Given how beloved his “Joey, baby!” anecdote is, he probably has a comparable degree of intelligence.
