For the Second Time in Less than an Hour, Biden Repeats Debunked Amtrak Conductor Story

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BIDEN: “When I was vice president, I flew over a million miles on Air Force Two, but I traveled further than that on Amtrak over the years. I remember one of the conductors, when I was going home — Secret Service is wonderful, they really are, but they’d rather you not travel Amtrak — not Amtrak, rail. It has to stop so damn many times and so many options for people to do things they don’t want to have done. So, but I was coming home to see my mom, and I just — she was living with us at the time, my dad passed away. And I got on a train on a Friday and — I won’t get him in complete trouble, I'll just tell his first name. The number two in seniority at the time, Angelo, and Ange came up to me as I was walking and he said, 'Joey!' and he grabbed my cheek, he said, 'Joey, baby!' And he said — because this got published in the newspaper, that I traveled 1,200,000 miles on Air Force planes as vice president, they published that on the regular basis. He said — I won't quote him exactly, but he said, 'Big deal, Joey!' I said, 'What do you mean, Ange?' He said, 'Look, we just had the retirement dinner up in Newark.' He said, 'You know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?' I said, 'No.' He said a million — I think it was 320,000 miles. I said, 'How do you figure that?' He said, 'Well, 118 days a year, almost 300 miles a day, 36 years, plus...' he went on, the whole deal. I said, 'I believe you, Ange. Let me get on the train, will you?'”