On Friday, President Biden shared, for at least the 13th time since taking office, a debunked story involving a late Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri, who allegedly exclaimed “Joey, baby!” while praising Biden’s career as a train passenger.
Biden, 81, gave his latest version of the story, changing some details, including the specific mileage cited, while touting investments in rail infrastructure at an event in Las Vegas.
“I was vice president… I was going home to see my mom. “I was taking a 5 o’clock train that I used to take every day – a 7 o’clock train out of Washington,” Biden began.
“One of the older Amtrak guys… He comes up to me, his name is Angelo, and he comes up to me and says, ‘Joey, honey!’ and he grabs my cheek. I thought they were going to shoot him.
“And I said, ‘Ang, what’s wrong with you?’ She said, “We just… I just read the newspaper,” because they keep meticulous mileage. [of] how many miles you use on airplanes for the United States Air Force as vice president,” Biden continued.
“‘I read in the paper, Joey, that you traveled… one million, two hundred thousand miles in the Air Force,” Biden continued, using a different figure from the one million miles he most commonly cites.
President Biden shared, for at least the 13th time since taking office, a debunked story involving a late Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri, who allegedly exclaimed “Joey, baby!” AFP via Getty Images The story was rated “False” in 2021 by CNN, which noted that Biden did not reach 1 million miles aboard Air Force Two until September 2015, long after Negri’s retirement from Amtrak in 1993 and his death in May 2014. AFP via Getty Images
“He said, ‘Big…’ I’m going to quote him exactly. He said, “Big deal, Joey.” He said, ‘We just had a retirement dinner in Newark, New Jersey…Do you know how many miles you’ve driven?’ I said, ‘No, Ang.’ And he said, ‘1,000,327 miles.’ I don’t hear about the Air Force anymore. “Well, guys, I… I’m a railroad guy, not a joke.”
The story was rated “False” in 2021 by CNN, which noted that Biden did not reach 1 million miles aboard Air Force Two until September 2015, long after Negri’s retirement from Amtrak in 1993 and his death in May 2015. 2014.
Biden’s daily private agenda as vice president included a note about how many Air Force miles he had traveled, allowing verification.
Biden is seeking a second four-year term in next year’s election despite widespread public concern about his mental acuity. AP
Biden is seeking a second four-year term in next year’s election despite widespread public concern about his mental acuity.
A New York Times poll last month found that 71% of swing state voters believe Biden is “too old to be an effective president,” compared to 39% who said the same of former President Donald Trump, 77. years, who seeks revenge against Biden.
Biden also has a decades-long propensity for embellishing personal stories and was forced to abandon his first presidential bid in 1987 due to plagiarism of speeches, a law school paper and exaggerations about his academic record.
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