President Joe Biden repeated a widely debunked story on Monday about a conversation he had with an Amtrak conductor as vice president.
He said that one of the conductors added up the number of miles he traveled on Amtrak, a story that has been debunked, given that the conductor in question reportedly retired in 1993, per the RNC Research account on Twitter.
Biden repeats a widely debunked story about a conversation he had with an Amtrak conductor when he was VP.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 30, 2023
The conductor retired from Amtrak in 1993. This never happened. pic.twitter.com/MCR9xpcC0d
The conductor in question, Angelo Negri, was a friend of the president. However, he died in May 2014 and retired over two decades ago, long before Biden became vice president in 2008 under former President Barack Obama.
"One of the conductors said to me, 'Hey Joe, big deal. ... You've traveled over a million miles on Amtrak,'" Biden said. "And I said, 'How the hell do you know that?' And they calculated it right there."
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The president told the story during a speech touting the infrastructure project that will replace the 150-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel as part of the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.
Biden's story has been used in the past to highlight his connection with commuters and the Amtrak system, something that he famously used for years to commute between Washington, D.C., and Delaware, per CNN.