
Biden keeps telling a bizarre Amtrak story that's been debunked
Meri Emongo
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Biden keeps telling bizarre Amtrak story that was already debunked<br /><br />Biden continues repeating the factually impossible claim<br /><br />President Biden has repeatedly told a heartfelt story about his interactions with an Amtrak employee, even though the details of the story don't seem to add up. <br /><br />Biden on Wednesday told the factually challenged Amtrak story for the fourth time in his presidency to date.<br /><br />BIDEN’S BIZARRE AMTRAK STORY DOESN’T ADD UP<br /><br />"About, uh, I guess it was seven years into my tenure as vice president, and I used to always like to take Amtrak home on Friday," Biden said while speaking in Scranton, Pennsylvania. "... And a lot of the folks on Amtrak became my family, not a joke."<br /><br />"Angelo Negri was from – you remember Ange?" he said. "Ange came up to me one day when they just had announced that I had flown one million-some, x-number of miles on Air Force aircraft."<br /><br />"And Ange comes up, and I’m getting in the car, and he goes, ‘Joey, baby! What are you?’" the president continued, grabbing his cheek. "And I thought the Secret Service was going to shoot him."<br /><br />"I said, ‘No, no, no, he’s good! He’s good!’" Biden added. "True story."<br /><br />The president’s "true story" seems to be anything but – Fox News previously reported that the story does not add up.<br /><br />Negri's obituary states he retired from Amtrak in 1993, while Biden was still a senator. Additionally, Biden's office celebrated him hitting 1 million miles on Air Force Two in 2015 and Negri passed away the year prior.<br /><br />Biden's telling of the story has varied. <br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1450941508450914307" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1450941508450914307</a><br /><br />The president previously claimed it happened in the "fourth or fifth year" of his vice presidency, while most recently claiming it happened in the seventh year of his tenure. <br /><br />In another version of the story that Biden ha