{"id":286321,"date":"2024-04-25T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286321"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:21:58","slug":"fact-check-biden-repeats-his-false-claim-that-he-used-to-drive-an-18-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286321","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Biden repeats his false claim that he \u2018used to drive an 18-wheeler\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daniel Dale \u2013 CNN Apr 24, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Joe Biden has revived a debunked tale about his past \u2013 his fictional claim that he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u000083b6ibw6u1wil@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Biden has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/20\/politics\/fact-check-biden-false-claims-first-year-2021\/index.html\">repeatedly embellished or invented<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/16\/politics\/fact-check-biden-amtrak-grandfather-pittsburgh-bridge-debt\/index.html\">biographical tidbits<\/a>. In 2021, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/biden-18-wheeler-truck\/\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: \u201cI used\u00a0to drive an 18-wheeler, man,\u201d then added, \u201cI got to.\u201d At a separate 2021 event, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/dec\/03\/joe-biden\/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0college students studying truck technology, \u201cI used to drive a tractor-trailer,\u201d adding,\u00a0\u201cI only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u100093b6if2601zk5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">Biden\u2019s claims were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/biden-18-wheeler-truck\/\">fact-checked<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/dec\/03\/joe-biden\/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver\/\">at the time as false<\/a>. But on Tuesday, during a campaign event in Florida, Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/04\/23\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-event-tampa-fl\/\">said it again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A supporter told him,\u00a0\u201cThe only reason I have a pension is because of you.\u201d (The supporter appeared to be referring to the Biden administration\u2019s $36 billion in aid to prevent steep pension cuts for more than 350,000\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/08\/politics\/biden-union-pension-funds\/index.html\">union workers and retirees, including truck drivers<\/a>.) Biden responded: \u201cWell, we did get that done.\u00a0Anyway.\u00a0Besides, I used to drive an 18-wheeler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u1000b3b6iworwyh2b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\"><strong>Facts First<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Biden\u2019s claim remains untrue. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u1000c3b6idkj8etqb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">When CNN inquired about the claim in 2021, the White House\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/20\/politics\/fact-check-biden-false-claims-first-year-2021\/index.html\">noted<\/a>\u00a0that Biden once had a part-time job driving a school bus (which is not an 18-wheeler or a tractor-trailer) and that, as a US senator in 1973, he spent a night riding in a cargo truck (not driving it).<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u1000d3b6i3jzu5o0q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Biden\u2019s Tuesday rendition of the \u201c18-wheeler\u201d claim came the week after he made some other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/19\/politics\/fact-check-biden-pennsylvania-campaign-swing\/index.html\">inaccurate personal claims<\/a>\u00a0during a campaign swing in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvdxe9u1000e3b6ix5pio8to@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">He said last week that he has \u201cnever\u201d earned $400,000 in a year, though he has done so every year of his presidency and made millions in each of 2017 and 2018. He also offered a dramatic account of the death of his uncle in a World War II plane crash \u2013 saying the plane was shot down and suggesting his uncle\u2019s body was consumed by cannibals \u2013 that is at odds with the Defense Department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil\/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000001nzWi4EAE\">account of the 1944 incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/24\/politics\/fact-check-biden-driving-18-wheeler\/index.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the story has been exposed as fictional Biden carries on repeating it and even embellishing it <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":275684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286322,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286321\/revisions\/286322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}