Washington Post chief fact-checker Glenn Kessler grilled President Joe Biden over several tall tales he has told over the course of this political career.
President Biden brings up Delaware house fire, saying he and Dr. Jill Biden had to be out of their house for about seven months because so much damage was done.took exception to several stories President Biden has repeatedly told about his life to connect with audiences in a piece Thursday.
Kessler stated that each of these folksy stories from Biden are part of his"tradition of embellishing his personal tales in ways that cannot be verified or are directly refuted by contemporary accounts." In those retellings, Kessler noted how Biden, then a U.S. Senator from Delaware, had claimed"a couple firefighters" almost died, how his 1967 Corvette was nearly destroyed, and that a"significant portion" of his house burned.
"Cranston Heights Fire Co. Chief George Lamborn told the newspaper the flames did not spread from the kitchen. ‘Luckily, we got it pretty early. The fire was under control in 20 minutes.’" As Biden has told the story, Negri congratulated the then-vice president for traveling 2 million miles on Amtrak trains, almost double the amount he has traveled on Air Force One.
However, the author noted,"Biden depicts a scene that would have been unusual six decades ago. He describes this exchange with his father usually as taking place in 1961. But back then, gay men generally did not kiss in public. Many people regarded homosexuality as deviant." article on his evolution on same-sex marriage, he was the father in the story, speaking to one of his sons."
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