Tuesday, October 17, 2023

"Geriatric Joe" Biden's Tall Tales, Misinformation, Blunders & Out Right Lies

Over the years “Geriatric Joe” Biden has become infamous (or rather notorious) for spinning some of the most unbelievable “tall tales” that even Ripley wouldn’t believe so here the Old Colonel has compiled several of his most notable ones in this one tight shot group for your enjoyment.  Although all are outright lies and misinformation, many are harmless exaggerations and fabrications to validate his manhood despite his Draft Dodging during Vietnam to avoid any brush with danger but this first lie was hurtful and damaging to the man involved and his family in what was definitely the most traumatic event in either man’s life.

 

Daughter of man in ’72 Biden crash seeks apology from widowed Senator

·         By CARL HAMILTON
SPECIAL TO THE NEWARK POST

 Oct 30, 2008

https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/local/daughter-of-man-in-biden-crash-seeks-apology-from-widowed/article_6c9a477e-63be-561b-b771-1330b4cda02d.html

Newark resident Pamela Hamill wants a public apology from vice presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who she says has repeatedly besmirched her late father, Curtis C. Dunn.

Dunn was the tractor-trailer driver involved in the December 1972 accident that took the life of the newly-elected U.S. Senator’s first wife, Neilia, and 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.

Dunn died in 1999, but his daughter says she’s fed up with Biden publicly mischaracterizing him as having been drunk when the accident occurred.

According to Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, who oversaw the police investigation 36 years ago as chief prosecutor, there is no evidence supporting Biden’s claim.

“The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver (Dunn), is incorrect,” Herlihy said recently.

Police determined that Biden’s first wife drove into the path of Dunn’s tractor-trailer, possibly because her head was turned and she didn’t see the oncoming truck.

Dunn, who overturned his rig while swerving to avoid a collision, ran to the wrecked car and was the first to render assistance.

Police filed no charges against Dunn, who at that time lived in North East, Md. with his wife, Ruby, and their seven children.

Biden has been alluding to alcohol being involved in the crash for nearly a decade. During a speech in 2001, Biden told an audience at University of Delaware that a drunken driver crashed into his family.

He told a similar story during a public appearance in 2007.

More recently, the vice presidential candidate’s misrepresentation of Dunn has found its way into major newspapers, including the New York Times.

It also has been repeated on radio and on television by major news journalists, including CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric.

Yet Hamill said she had no idea Biden had been misrepresenting Dunn until late August.

That’s when “Inside Edition” producers requested an interview with Hamill after the television show’s reporters had gathered evidence contradicting Biden’s story.

Hamill says she defended Biden at first, believing that, perhaps, his words had been misconstrued.

But her disbelief turned to anguish when shown a video of Biden making his unfounded assertion during a public appearance.

Biden told the crowd, “A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons …”

“I just burst into tears,” Hamill said. “The story already is tragic enough, why did he have to sensationalize it by saying my father was drunk? My family is outraged.”

Hamill appeared on “Inside Edition” on Sept. 18 to set the record straight and now, acting as family spokesperson, she is campaigning for Biden to recant his story and restore her father’s honor.

On Oct. 1, after several attempts to make contact, Hamill sent a registered letter to Biden’s camp, asking him to tell the truth.

She also asked CBS officials to instruct Katie Couric to broadcast the real circumstances surrounding the fatal accident.

As of Sunday, Hamill hadn’t heard from Biden’s camp.

In an Oct. 21 e-mail, a CBS spokesman acknowledged discrepancies in Biden’s story and explained that he’s awaiting word from the “news people.”

Hamill said learning about Biden’s false portrayal of her late father has chilled warm feelings that she once held for the senator.

In 2001, she wrote a heartfelt letter to Biden expressing her father’s profound grief after hearing Biden make a post Sept. 11 speech in which he told the audience that, given his history, he could empathize with victims.

“Growing up, my dad never talked about it. He always got very solemn around Christmastime because the anniversary was Dec. 18, and he never wanted to celebrate the holidays,” Hamill said. “When newspapers had anniversary articles (about the crash), we hid them from dad.”

Biden responded in a handwritten note, which, in part, reads, “All that I can say is I am sorry for all of us and please know that neither I or my sons feel any animosity whatsoever.”

Hamill says that because she fondly recalled those tender correspondences, the revelation of Biden’s distorted story is even more overwhelming.

“We always felt like our heartstrings were attached to (Biden’s) heartstrings. Now we feel stabbed in the back,” she said.

Hamill wants to clear her late father’s name before Biden’s story is even more widely accepted as fact.

“Suppose he becomes the next vice president,” she said. “Movies could be made about him and books could be written about him, all falsely portraying my father as a drunk driver. We need to set the record straight and clear my father’s name right now before this goes any further.”

… and here is the rest of the story:

In late August of 2008, during the presidential campaign in which Biden was now Barack Obama’s running mate, Inside Edition aired a clip of him talking about the “errant driver who stopped to drink.” The daughter of Curtis C. Dunn, that driver who died in 1999, was distraught. “The family feels these statements are both hurtful and untrue and we didn’t know where they originated from” the daughter, Pamela Hamill, told a reporter from the News Journal in Delaware, “he was a good, hardworking man, and wonderful father.” Her father had mourned the accident, she said, and always was solemn around the holidays because of it.

After CBS News rehashed the debunking in 2009, Biden finally called her. “He apologized for hurting my family in any way,” she said. “So we accepted that—and kind of end of story from there.”

This was very gracious of the Dunn family given Biden had been telling a similar false account of the accident to crowds for years. He would say: “Let me tell you a little story  A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons …”  He would say this even though he knew it wasn’t true.

The driver of the truck, Curtis C. Dunn of Pennsylvania, was not charged with drunk driving. He wasn’t charged with anything. The accident was an accident, and though the police file no longer exists, coverage in the newspapers at the time made it clear that fault was not in question. For whatever reason, Neilia Biden, who was holding the baby, ended up in the right of way of Dunn’s truck coming down a long hill.

According to Jerome Herlihy, a retired judge who then was a deputy attorney general and a Biden neighbor who still remains friends with him: “She had a stop sign. The truck driver did not.” Herlihy was asked “to go out to the state police troop where the driver of the other vehicle was to make sure everything was going all right,” so he did. “In the end,” Herlihy said, “I concurred in their decision that there was no fault on his part.”

 


            


FACT CHECKER

Biden loves to retell certain stories. Some aren’t credible.

Analysis by Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker, 31 August 2023 at 1530 EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/31/biden-loves-retell-certain-stories-some-arent-credible/

Edited Article Text:

“President Biden, like many politicians, likes to tell stories …. But throughout his career — most famously in his first presidential campaign, in the 1988 election cycle — Biden’s propensity to exaggerate or embellish tales about his life led to doubts about his truthfulness….

The tale of the fire in his house

At least six times as president, mostly recently in comments to Hurricane Idalia victims Wednesday, Biden has exaggerated the extent of a fire that occurred at his house in 2004.

“And I know, having had a house burn down with my wife in it — she got out safely, God willing — that having a significant portion of it burn, I can tell: 10 minutes makes a hell of a difference,” Biden said at an infrastructure event in November 2021.

In March this year, speaking to a firefighters conference, Biden said: “Lightning struck in a pond behind my house, went up underneath the conduit, and caught the — caught fire underneath the floorboards of my house. And it was during the summer. Air conditioning was on. Smoke that thick all three stories.” He added: “My fire company was there to go in and save my wife, get her out; the cat; and my ’67 Corvette.”

Speaking to a summit on fire prevention last October, Biden said: “We almost lost a couple firefighters, they tell me, because the kitchen floor was — the — burning between beams in the house, in addition to almost collapsed into the basement.”

The contemporary news accounts in the Wilmington News Journal and the Associated Press are much less dramatic.

“Biden’s house on Barley Mill Road was reported hit by lightning at 8:16 a.m., emergency officials said,” the News Journal reported. “There were no injuries and firefighters kept the fire contained to one room.” The article added that “firefighters from Cranston Heights, Talleyville, Elsmere, Mill Creek and Hockessin fire companies arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house.”

Cranston Heights Fire Co. Chief George Lamborn told the newspaper the flames did not spread from the kitchen. “Luckily, we got it pretty early,” he said. “The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”

The tale of the Amtrak conductor

At least 10 times as president, most recently during an Aug. 15 speech in Milwaukee, Biden has told a heartwarming but implausible story about an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri who congratulated him for traveling more on Amtrak than he had on Air Force planes as vice president. Biden often brings up the anecdote when discussing infrastructure projects or speaking to labor groups.

Biden’s tale varies slightly in each retelling. In one version, told at a New Jersey Transit facility in October 2021, Biden recalled: “Ang walks up to me and goes, ‘Joey, baby!’ Grabs my cheek. And I thought the Secret Service was going to blow his head off.” Biden said that Negri had read Biden had flown 1.2 million miles as vice president, but Negri calculated he actually had traveled more than 2 million miles on Amtrak. “So, Joey, I don’t want to hear this about the Air Force anymore,” Negri allegedly said.

Often Biden adds: “True story.”

But it’s not possible this conversation took place as Biden describes. Negri and Biden were friends, according to a CNN interview with Negri’s stepdaughter in 2021, and she said Negri “adored” Biden. But Biden did not pass the 1.2 million-mile mark until 2016; Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, 16 years before Biden became vice president. Negri died in 2014, two years before Biden claims they had this conversation.

In 2009, after Biden became vice president, Esquire described a “Heeeey, Joey baby!” conversation with an unnamed conductor, suggesting Biden may be mixing up Negri with another person.

The tale of the gay men in suits kissing

Three times this year — and at least seven times since 2014 — Biden has told a version, most recently on Aug. 10, of a story about words his father supposedly spoke after a teenage Biden saw two well-dressed men in suits kiss each other in downtown Wilmington in the early 1960s.

“Joey, it’s simple. They love each other,” Biden’s father is said to have remarked.

Biden usually mentions this story when discussing gay issues but there are reasons to be skeptical. Biden depicts a scene that would have been unusual six decades ago. He describes this exchange with his father usually as taking place in 1961. But back then, gay men generally did not kiss in public. Many people regarded homosexuality as deviant. Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach had some bars regarded then as gay-friendly, but that’s not the same as the strait-laced business community in downtown Wilmington.

Moreover, Biden’s story has evolved over time. In 2014, in a New York Times article on his evolution on same-sex marriage, he was the father in the story, speaking to one of his sons. In the article, Biden’s father figures in a different story on a similar theme — forcing a friend to apologize after insulting a gay couple at a Delaware beach. But in 1987, Biden told the Los Angeles Times yet another version — that his father had lectured him after he tried to put off a visit to a gay couple who were strong supporters of the senator and shared an apartment at a Delaware beach.

The tale of his civil rights arrests

Biden had a tangential role in the civil rights movement — The Fact Checker determined that he participated in one walkout at a restaurant and picketed a segregated movie theater — and yet sometimes he has suggested he was arrested for advocating on behalf of Black people.

Four times, including once as president, Biden has suggested he was arrested for standing on the porch with a Black couple who were subject to demonstrations. Sometimes he says that his mother warned him not to go to the protests. “Remember when I told you not to go down there, Honey, because everybody is protesting and you got arrested standing with the family on the porch,” he said his mother told him, in a version he recounted in 2017. (Twice Biden said the police merely brought him back home from the protest after he stood on the porch.)

But when we investigated, the story did not add up. There was a protest of a Black couple who had purchased a house in an all-White area, but it was a neighborhood many miles from the Biden home. Biden instead appears to be referring to a protest that took place outside the home of the real estate agent who was involved in the sale. That was near where he lived as a teenager at the time.

Campaigning for president in 2020, Biden three times claimed he was arrested in South Africa for trying to see Nelson Mandela, who at the time was imprisoned on Robben Island, near Cape Town. When we determined that was false, he amended his statement to say he was “stopped” at the airport while traveling with a congressional delegation — though others on the delegation said that did not happen.

As president, Biden usually just comments that he tried to see Mandela while visiting South Africa. But once he said he almost was arrested. “Only time I almost got arrested was I was trying to go see Nelson Mandela in South Africa and when I was at a civil rights march,” he said at a Democratic National Committee event in September 2022. “That was the only two times. But I didn’t get arrested. They didn’t think I was worth it.”

The tales of a heroic uncle and the family hospital

Besides his father, Biden’s grandfather, uncle and other family members appear as regular characters in his speeches. But some of the stories he tells are not plausible.

Speaking to veterans in December, Biden recalled how his Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart but never received it. He said that after he became vice president in 2009, he arranged to present the medal to his uncle with the rest of the family in attendance. But his uncle, Frank H. Biden, died in 1999, a decade before Biden became vice president. His Official Military Records as does neither his obituary nor tombstone mentions a Purple Heart, awarded when a soldier is killed or wounded while serving….

Twice this year, most recently in the Milwaukee speech, Biden has claimed his grandfather, an oil company executive, “died in the same hospital” just before Biden himself was born there. (In April it was two weeks before, in August it was six days.)

But Biden’s paternal grandfather, Joseph H. Biden, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Sept. 26, 1941, according to an obituary. Biden was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pa., on Nov. 20, 1942, 14 months later. His maternal grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan, did die at St. Mary’s — but in 1957, nearly 15 years later.”

Academic Prowess

"Geriatric Joe" Biden claimed that he had attended law school at Syracuse University on a full academic scholarship and finished in the top half of his law school class, that he had been named the outstanding student in the political science department as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, and that he had graduated from Delaware with three undergraduate degrees.

In fact, he did NOT have a full academic scholarship, he ranked 76th in his class of 85 and failed a course when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote, he was NEVER named “outstanding” for anything in college or law school and he graduated from Delaware with just one degree.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/22/biden-academic-claims-inaccurate/932eaeed-9071-47a1-aeac-c94a51b668e1/

More Biden Whoppers

It’s another day and another fish tale from Joe Biden.

This time, the president falsely claimed in a speech to have personally witnessed the Pittsburgh bridge collapse last January.

He spun his yarn trying to impress his audience; however, he was caught flat-footed by critics.

“A lot of you were with me when I was in Pittsburgh,” Biden told a crowd gathered at a Milwaukee wind turbine manufacturing plant to hear him speak. “By the way, Pittsburgh is a city of bridges – more bridges in Pittsburgh than any other city in America.”

He went on to claim, “I watched that bridge collapse,” adding, “I got there and saw it collapse with over 200 feet off the ground going over a valley. It collapsed. Thank God school was out during the pandemic.”

The 477-foot-long bridge collapsed hours before his speech. The president was not anywhere near the site.

Some on X, formerly known as Twitter, suggested that Biden had lost touch with reality.

“Joe Biden watched a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh. He’s not lying. Lying requires understanding reality and saying something contrary. Sadly, our president lacks a grasp on reality. His head believes he saw it collapse,” one user wrote.

Others accused the president of being an unabashed liar.

Another post opined, “Prolific liar or dementia? Joe Biden tells a lie each day.  Today: Biden claims he witnessed a Pittsburgh bridge collapse.”

Joe Biden Tall Tale Not Isolated Incident – At the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue – or maybe NOT and Just in His Mind!

Joe Biden has a long history of tall tales.  Although he hasn’t talked about his rides with Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill, he has come close.

In 2021, Biden was corrected by the executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue for claiming he had visited it.

The synagogue was the site of the horrific 2018 massacre of 11 people by a Neo-Nazi.

“I used to think that hate could be defeated, it could be wiped out. But I learned a long time ago, it can’t. It only hides. It hides. It hides under the rocks. And given any oxygen at all, it comes out. It’s a minority view, but it comes out, and it comes out raging. And it’s been given too much oxygen in the last four, five, seven, 10 years, and it has seen itself, whether it was – I remember spending time at the – you know, going to the – you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with the – just –,” Biden said; he didn’t finish the sentence, instead continuing, “It just is amazing these things are happening – happening in America.”

Tree of Life Executive Director Barb Feige told The New York Post that Biden had never been to the synagogue even before he became president.

Biden’s ‘CornPop’ Tale

Biden’s most infamous Pecos Bill tale probably was his claim in 2019 to have confronted a black gang leader in Wilmington, Delaware in 1962 while he was a lifeguard.

“CornPop was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad boys,” he said while mimicking a black American accent. “I walked out with the chain. I walked up to my car,” Biden said. “I said: ‘First of all … when I tell you to get off the board, you get off the board, and I’ll kick you out again. But I shouldn’t have called you Esther Williams, I apologize.’”

“But I don’t know if that apology is going to work … “He said OK, closed the straight razor and my heart began to beat again.”

His tale immediately raised skepticism and many in the media refused to accept it as anything other than a fabrication.

Biden has always had a knack for making things up. It’s not a senior thing.

He has been known as a liar as far as 1987.He was forced out of the 1988 presidential campaign because he lied about his law school education and plagiarized Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

A few more Biden whoppers he told during a Pennsylvania campaign swing 17-19 April 2024

Biden’s uncle in World War II

In Scranton, where Biden was born, he told a dramatic World War II story about his uncle Ambrose Finnegan: “He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered his body.” He blamed cannibalism even more directly in his later Pittsburgh speech claiming Finnegan “got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”

Facts First: Biden’s claim differs from the account provided by the Defense Department. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s page on Finnegan says this about the 1944 incident: “For unknown reasons, this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea. Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash.” This official account, which notes that an additional crew member survived the crash, makes no mention of the plane being shot down or of possible cannibalism; while Biden said the crash happened “in” New Guinea, where there was indeed some cannibalism at the time, the official account notes the men went down in the ocean.

Biden’s earnings

Biden repeated his regular promise that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will pay even a cent more in taxes under his proposals. He then added, “I hope you’re all able to make $400,000. I never did.”

Facts FirstBiden’s “I never did” claim is false. In fact, his presidential salary is $400,000 per year; the joint tax filings of President Biden and first lady Jill Biden showed $619,976 in income last year, $579,514 in 2022 and $610,702 in 2021. In addition, Biden earned millions in 2017 and 2018, when, during his time as a private citizen following his vice presidency, he and Jill Biden signed a lucrative book deal and he delivered paid speeches. The Bidens made $15.6 million in the two years after leaving office The Bidens’ joint tax filings showed a total of about $11 million in 2017 income and about $4.6 million in 2018 income.

Biden’s visits to Iraq and Afghanistan

Biden claimed in “I was in, I think, 36, 38 times in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senator and as a vice president.”

Facts FirstThese figures are false, according to statistics previously released by Biden’s own 2020 presidential campaign. The campaign said in 2019 that Biden had visited Iraq and Afghanistan on a total of 21 occasions, the Washington Post reported at the time. Biden has delivered similar falsehoods about his travel to Iraq and Afghanistan on various previous occasions — including in the 2019 remarks that prompted his campaign to correct the record.




That time football legend, rig-driving eligible bachelor Biden was arrested

Here’s a guide to some recent stories told by President Biden that cannot be verified or are not plausible.

Analysis by Glenn Kessler, The Fact Checker 1500/3:00 am EDT 2 May 2024

Below is a distilled/shortened version of Kessler’s Fact Check removing superfluous detail but you can read it in its entirety at this WaPo link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/02/that-time-football-legend-rig-driving-eligible-bachelor-biden-was-arrested/

There’s a regular request that readers send to The Fact Checker: Is that personal anecdote that President Biden just told true?

The answer, in many cases, is there’s no evidence.

Many of these tales are of relatively minor consequence … Biden’s propensity to exaggerate or embellish tales about his life has led to doubts about his truthfulness. …. Here’s a roundup of recent stories that Biden has told…. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Drove an 18-wheeler

Biden …  identified himself as a Teamster. “I used to drive an 18-wheeler,…You know what I did?” …. he claimed he had driven a tractor-trailer for “part of the summer.” Reporters could not find any evidence that either claim was true.

Instead, appears ... Biden drove a school bus as a summer job during college. And as a senator in 1973, he spent the night rolling more than 500 miles from Delaware to Ohio as a passenger on a 47,000-pound cargo truck.

Appeared on a list of 10 most eligible bachelors

… Biden said he was on a list of 10 most eligible bachelors …. No such list can be found. … Biden said women would send him photos …  they were “salacious” — and he would forward them to the Secret Service because he was afraid of being set up. Senators do not receive Secret Service protection.

First in family to go to college

…. Biden said he was the first in his family to go to college. “The first Biden to go to college,” he told union workers…. In 1987, Biden’s first presidential campaign collapsed when he admitted to misstatements about his life …. the Scranton Tribune, in reporting on the 1941 wedding, said: “Mr. Biden is a graduate of St. Thomas High School and attended Johns Hopkins University…. Census records from 1940 also indicate that Biden’s father attended college …”

State runner-up in scoring in football

Biden was a football player in high school, but he exaggerated his record …. “Runner-up in state scoring, you know,” …. But Biden is exaggerating. The Wilmington News-Journal reported that in 1960, Biden placed fourth — with four touchdowns and 24 points — in a five-school conference for private schools in Delaware. His high school, Archmere Academy, did place first in the league …. When nonconference games are included, Biden earned a total of 60 points. But that was good enough only for fifth place in the state …. The state’s top scorer earned 108 points.

Arrested during a civil rights protest

…. Biden repeated a claim that we fact-checked in 2022 — that he got “arrested standing on the porch with a Black family” in his Delaware neighborhood during desegregation protests. By our count, this is the seventh time he has made this claim, which earned him Four Pinocchios…. Sometimes … he says he was arrested. Other times, he says police merely brought him back home from the protest.

We looked carefully into newspaper accounts at the time. (Biden never mentions this incident in any of his memoirs.) In 1959, when Biden was 16, protesters denounced the purchase by a Black couple …. We found only one report of an arrest of a teenager …. but not under the heroic circumstances described by Biden. “A 17-year-old youth was charged with breach of the peace after allegedly swinging at a woman ….  the Wilmington Journal reported on Feb. 27, 1959. “After the arrest the boy was returned to the custody of his parents and will face action in Family Court, police said. The commotion caused by the young ‘outsider’ was the only one observed by police all evening.”

(My observation, either Biden is again lying or he was guilty of beating up a woman.)

Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it

By Daniel Dale, CNN  Published 2:26 PM EDT, Fri April 26, 2024

President Joe Biden went on “The Howard Stern Show” on Friday and repeated his familiar story about the time he supposedly “got arrested” trying to defend the civil rights of Black Americans.

Facts First: There is no evidence Biden ever got arrested during a civil rights protest, as The Washington Post and PolitiFact found when they looked into this claim in 2022 — and Biden has at least twice told the story of his supposed presence at this particular Delaware protest without mentioning any arrest, instead claiming that the police merely took him home that day.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/fact-check-joe-biden-claim-arrested-defending-civil-rights/index.html

 

Fact check: Biden repeats his false claim that he ‘used to drive an 18-wheeler’

By Daniel Dale, CNN  Published 11:13 AM EDT, Wed April 24, 2024

President Joe Biden has revived a debunked tale about his past – his fictional claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck.

Biden has repeatedly embellished or invented biographical tidbits. In 2021, he claimed during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,” then added, “I got to.” At a separate 2021 event, he told college students studying truck technology, “I used to drive a tractor-trailer,” adding, “I only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway. ”Biden’s claims were fact-checked at the time as false.

Facts First: Biden’s claim remains untrue. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler.

When CNN inquired about the claim in 2021, the White House noted that Biden once had a part-time job driving a school bus (which is not an 18-wheeler or a tractor-trailer) and that, as a US senator in 1973, he spent a night riding in a cargo truck (not driving it).

Biden … made some other inaccurate personal claims during a campaign swing in Pennsylvania.

He said last week that he has “never” earned $400,000 in a year, though he has done so every year of his presidency and made millions in each of 2017 and 2018. He also offered a dramatic account of the death of his uncle in a World War II plane crash – saying the plane was shot down and suggesting his uncle’s body was consumed by cannibals – that is at odds with the Defense Department’s account of the 1944.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/fact-check-biden-driving-18-wheeler/index.html

For a Ton of “historical” Biden gaffs, see my 2010 Blog article:

Joe Biden - The Consummate Gaff-mister and Some of My Favorite “Biden-isms”

https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-had-worst-week-in-washington-vice.html

Biden says he “spoke to” the man who 'invented' insulin even though the guy had died before Biden was born.

 

Biden says inflation caused by war in Iraq, then said he misspoke because that's where 'my son died.”

 

This link lets you see the unedited Biden gaff when MSNBC Capehart asked him about how Jill felt about him running again in 2024. He either fell asleep or zoned out until Capehart woke him up. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6314192758112

 

Biden said there were 54 U.S. States when speaking about the Affordable Care Act.  https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-viral-blunder-54-states-gaffe-video-viral-john-fetterman-latest-1755703


Biden even thought he had gotten his illegal Student Loan Forgiveness boondoggle passed by Congress “by a vote or two.” He didn’t remember he did it by Executive Order.

https://news.yahoo.com/got-passed-vote-two-biden-134233816.html

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