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2021-05-06 |
![]() "When I became vice president, one of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I had taken more than 7,000 round trips on Amtrak over my career. I think that's an exaggeration. I'm going to rely on those two conductors ... one of them was a guy named Angelo Negri," Biden said Friday at an event marking Amtrak's 50th anniversary. "There was an article, I guess my fourth or fifth year as vice president, saying Biden travels 1,300,000 miles on Air Force One [Two]. I used to — the Secret Service didn't like it — but I used to like to take the train home. My mom was sick and I used to try to come home almost every weekend as vice president to see her. I got on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, ’Joey, baby,’ and he grabbed my cheek like he always did. I thought he was going to get shot. I'm serious. I said, 'No, no, he's a friend.' "He said, 'Joey, what's the big deal? 1,300,000 miles on Air Force Two? Do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?' I said, 'No, Angie, I don't know.' He gave me the calculation and he said you traveled 1,500,000 miles on Amtrak. The fact is, I'd probably take Angie's word before I'd take the word of what the article said." Biden's comments have flown under the media radar so far. However, a few elements of the story seemed out of place. Biden entered the fourth year of his term as vice president around 2013, and Negri's obituary states he retired from Amtrak in 1993, while Biden was still a senator. Meanwhile, Biden's mother, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan, died in 2010. Additionally, Biden's office celebrated him hitting 1 million miles on Air Force Two in 2015. "A few months ago, Vice President Joe Biden crossed the million-mile mark aboard Air Force Two — the official plane of the Vice President. ... I wanted to give you a sense of what those more-than 1 million miles have looked like these past seven years," Biden's vice presidential photographer David Lienemann wrote in a blog post in February 2016. Biden's remarks are in the White House transcript of the event nearly word-for-word. But the administration made headlines in March for quietly correcting a gaffe Biden made during a news conference in which he appeared to mix up the names of Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and the controversial former head of Pakistan's military. "And General Austin is — just met with Kayani and I’m waiting for the briefing on that," Biden said Thursday. |
Posted by:Grolumble Angalet3024 |
#6 This what I mean when I say these people are reptiles. It bothers most people when they have to lie. But the sociopath does it easily with no sweat or increased heart rate. They have the morals of a reptile, which is to say no morals at all. The only consideration is what the reptile wants, be it food, sex, money or power. When I heard about Biden's plagiarism during his 1988 presidential bid, that was all I needed to know. If he'd give somebody else's speech as if it was his own, he'd lie about anything. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-05-06 14:15 |
#5 Isn't the real question.... Does he actually know he is lying, let alone speaking? |
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-06 13:31 |
#4 It's worked for him for 50 years; why should he stop now? |
Posted by: Tom 2021-05-06 12:56 |
#2 The people who load his teleprompter are lying - Joe is just reads it. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-06 03:33 |
#1 Hell he lies even when his lips are not moving. He lies when he's sleeping. No doubt he'll be lying when he's dead. If they dug him up a hundred years after he's buried the jaws of his skull would still be trying to lie. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-06 00:40 |