{"id":944,"date":"2023-02-02T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=944"},"modified":"2023-02-02T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:11:57","slug":"liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"LIAR IN CHIEF: Biden Repeats Debunked Story About Amtrak Conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Biden repeated a familiar lie during a speech on Monday claiming an Amtrak conductor congratulated him for traveling one million miles on the train commuting between Wilmington,&nbsp;Delaware&nbsp;and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch Biden tell his tall-tale:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Biden Repeats Debunked Amtrak Story\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v258u0e\/?pub=4#?secret=WyU0CmjIc0\" data-secret=\"WyU0CmjIc0\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Biden Repeats Debunked Amtrak Story\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v258u0e\/?pub=4#?secret=WyU0CmjIc0\" data-secret=\"WyU0CmjIc0\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor\/#\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor\/#\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:?subject=LIAR%20IN%20CHIEF%3A%20Biden%20Repeats%20Debunked%20Story%20About%20Amtrak%20Conductor&amp;body=President%20Biden%20repeated%20a%20familiar%20lie%20during%20a%20speech%20on%20Monday%20claiming%20an%20Amtrak%20conductor%20congratulated%20him%20for%20traveling%20one%20million%20miles%20on%20the%20train%20commuting%20between%20Wilmington%2C%C2%A0Delaware%C2%A0and%E2%80%A6%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefirsttv.com%2Fliar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor%2F%3Futm_source%3Dthefirsttv%26utm_medium%3Dshare%26utm_campaign%3Demail\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was going home as a United States senator\u2013as vice president\u2013and one of the conductors said to me, \u2018Hey Joe, big deal, a million\u2013whatever\u2013200\u2013.\u2019 He said, \u2018You\u2019ve traveled over a million miles on Amtrak,\u2019 Biden told the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018How the hell do you know that?\u2019 And they added it up there,\u2019 Biden added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s one problem with the story\u2013the conductor who supposedly said this to Biden, Angelo Negroni, retired from Amtrak in 1993 and had died by the time Biden became Vice President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-fact-check-biden-amtrak-e79af0cd7015ea3d559609817cceb144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>&nbsp;fact-checked the story back in 2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It\u2019s plausible that Biden logged 1.2 million train miles as vice president&nbsp;by early 2016,&nbsp;based on&nbsp;accounts around the time by Biden&nbsp;and&nbsp;David Lienemann, the vice president\u2019s official photographer. But Negri had long retired as an Amtrak conductor, in 1993,&nbsp;and died in May 2014.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/06\/biden-tells-false-joey-baby-amtrak-story-a-7th-time-as-prez\/\" target=\"_blank\">eighth time<\/a>\u00a0Biden has repeated this false story publicly since being elected president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor\/\">https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/liar-in-chief-biden-repeats-debunked-story-about-amtrak-conductor\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden repeated a familiar lie during a speech on Monday claiming an Amtrak conductor congratulated him for traveling one million miles on the train commuting between Wilmington,&nbsp;Delaware&nbsp;and Washington, D.C. Watch Biden tell his tall-tale: \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI was going home as a United States senator\u2013as vice president\u2013and one of the conductors said to me, \u2018Hey Joe, big deal, a million\u2013whatever\u2013200\u2013.\u2019 He said, \u2018You\u2019ve traveled over a million miles on Amtrak,\u2019 Biden told the audience. \u201cI said, \u2018How the hell do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}