04-24-2024, 02:23 PM
(04-24-2024, 01:24 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Joe could not memorize a 5-minute speech. Then said Trump was right we can't be trusted.
Then he lied one more time about driving an 18-wheeler. He has repeated this false story many. times.
https://www.aol.com/news/fact-check-biden-repeats-false-151315800.html?&ad=dirN&debug=0&prod=HP&cmpgn=rapha&locale=en_US&annot=false&sameTabLaunch=false&o=APN12425&installSource=other&browser=Edge&darkMode=false&ueid=9bd210c8-9927-41f4-bbff-df73f3de7c93&doi=2024-01-30
Fact check: Biden repeats his false claim that he ‘used to drive an 18-wheeler’
CNN
DANIEL DALE, CNN
April 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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. But on Tuesday, during a campaign event in Florida, Biden said it again.
A supporter told him, “The only reason I have a pension is because of you.” (The supporter appeared to be referring to the Biden administration’s $36 billion in aid to prevent steep pension cuts for more than 350,000 union workers and retirees, including truck drivers.) Biden responded: “Well, we did get that done. Anyway. Besides, I used to drive an 18-wheeler.”
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’s Tuesday rendition of the “18-wheeler” claim came the week after he 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 incident.
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I'm curious... do you trust CNN to fact check Trump? Or only when they fact check Biden? Hmmmmm....
I used to be jmccracky. Or Cracky for short.
