“I used to about 15% of the time ride with the engineers, for real,” Biden said.
President Biden claimed Monday that he had an Amtrak train key when he was a senator and would ride “about 15% of the time” with engineers on trips home to Delaware.
It’s unclear if Biden has told the story before, though he regularly shares personal anecdotes that fall apart under scrutiny.Biden noted in Baltimore that he regularly rode Amtrak home to Wilmington while in the Senate.Biden touted a $4 billion project to build two new rail tunnels in Baltimore.“I rode the train between Washington and Wilmington back and forth every single day that the Senate was in, and they tell me it was about on average 117 days a year, about 265 miles a day.
The president also told a pared-down version of a frequently told tall tale involving a deceased Amtrak conductor who exclaimed “Joey, baby!” while extolling his ridership data. But Biden’s latest telling stripped out key details that made prior accounts verifiably false. in 2021 by CNN “Facts First” journalist Daniel Dale, who reported that Biden didn’t reach one million miles aboard Air Force Two until September 2015.Biden is pictured taking an Acela Amtrak train to DC on Sept. 16, 2008.REUTERS
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