President Joe Biden loves to tell a story of an Amtrak conductor he once knew even though it has been repeatedly debunked.
And on Monday, he told it twice — in an hour.
During a meeting with Amtrak workers, Biden was seen telling a group of employees a story about an encounter with a conductor named Angelo Negri.
In the story, Negri allegedly came up to Biden while he was vice president to discuss a report that he had flown over a million miles on Air Force planes.
“I go to get on the train on a Friday afternoon, and a guy named Angelo… walked up and he goes, ‘Joey baby!’ He grabbed my cheek. And I thought were going to shoot him. And I said, ‘What’s the story, Angie?’ And he said, ‘I just read a million two hundred thousand miles, big deal!'” the president said.
Biden added, “He said, ‘You traveled over 1,300,000 miles .'”
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Less than an hour later, Biden was delivering remarks and told the same story again.
As CNN pointed out in 2021, the story does not add up.
It explained Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014.
Biden did not achieve the mark of flying more than a million miles until September 2015.