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President Joe Biden tells crowd another of his Amtrak stories, for real

Grandpa Joe Biden was in Baltimore Monday to kick off an infrastructure tour, making an appearance at a 150-year-old train tunnel that’s scheduled to be repaired. He also had an Amtrak story to tell the crowd, and you know it’s true because he said, “For real.”

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This isn’t the debunked Amtrak story that Biden’s told at least seven times, according to the New York Post’s count. That’s this one:

“I was — the Secret Service doesn’t like me taking the train because it stops too many places. And so I was riding home though to see my mom who was living with me because she was in hospice. And on a Friday, a guy named Angelo Negri, a conductor, senior conductor, walked up and said, ‘Joey, baby!’ — grabbed my cheek. I though he was gonna shoot him. He goes, ‘Joey!’ I said, ‘Ang!’ I said, ‘He’s okay, he’s a friend.’ True story.”

“True story” … that’s been debunked by the AP, CNN, and more. Angelo Negri retired in 1992 and died in May 2014.

Now Biden has a couple of other Amtrak stories to share. The man loves his trains:

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Maybe this one’s true; we’re sure Glenn Kessler and Daniel Dale and PolitiFact and Snopes are on it. This one’s already been debunked:

 

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