President Biden Repeats False Amtrak Story Multiple Times Despite Fact Checks

Biden Continues to Share Debunked Story of Amtrak Employee Interaction in Speeches, Despite Fact Checks Over Several Years Highlight Irregularities in Details and Timelines.

• President Biden has repeatedly shared a false story relating to a reported interaction with an Amtrak employee named Angelo Negri, by claiming they had a conversation after he had allegedly flown 1.2 million miles as vice president.
• The tale involves Negri praising Biden for allegedly surpassing 1 million miles on Amtrak, which the president used for commuting as a senator for Delaware.
• However, the timing of events in Biden's recounting does not add up. Biden did not reach the milestone of 1.2 million miles flown as vice president until September 2015, but Negri had died more than a year earlier in May 2014.
• Biden's mother also wasn't alive when he reached the 1.2 million miles milestone – she died over five years prior, contradicting the president's claim that he was going to visit his dying mother at the time of this alleged Amtrak interaction.
• While fact-checkers have debunked the story multiple times, Biden continues to narrate it in his speeches, telling it at least 12 times since assuming office.

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