Biden continued: “I said, ‘What’s up, Ang?’ He said, ‘Joey. I read in a paper. I read in the paper, you traveled 1,000 — 1,200,000 miles on Air Force planes.’ Because they keep meticulous tabs of it.”
Biden said that Negri had done the math and said, “You know how many miles you travel on Amtrak, Joey? … 2,200,000 miles… So Joey, I don’t want to hear this about the Air Force anymore.”
Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, meaning he didn’t work there when Biden was vice president. And he died in May 2014.
Biden usually says the story happened in his final year as vice president, but he didn’t include that detail Monday. His mention of his mother’s death suggests he may think it happened earlier.
Biden claimed he discussed the number of miles he traveled by train with Negri in 2010, but Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993.
But there’s another problem with Biden’s facts. CNN reported that “Biden’s account simply does not add up. Biden did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments.”
