Washington Post‘s “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler has admitted President Joe Biden regularly lies to the public regarding his past, not simply embellishing, but outright fabricating details about his personal and family history.
Kessler begins with Biden’s lie over his Delaware home nearly being burned down, claiming: “I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” and adding in another speech: “We had to be out of that house for about seven months while it was repaired, because so much damage was done to the house… Half the house almost collapsed.” 
No such thing happened, with AP reports from the time confirming a small kitchen fire was put out within 20 minutes.
WaPo also derides Biden’s story of Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri, who supposedly informed Biden he had traveled more on Amtrak than he had on Air Force planes while serving as Vice President of the United States. The story is impossible. “Biden did not pass the 1.2 million-mile mark until 2016; Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, 16 years before Biden became vice president. Negri died in 2014, two years before Biden claims they had this conversation.”
Biden’s claims to have been arrested in a Civil Rights protest were false; he was never arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison; and the stories he tells about people such as “Corn Pop” and indeed his outright plagiarism have scarcely bothered the corporate media until recently. But concerns over Biden’s age, mental competence, and involvement with his son’s foreign business deals appears to have given the press the green-light on such stories.
Even then, Glenn Kessler and the Washington Post can’t help but defend Biden’s penchant for lying to the public: “…like many politicians, [Biden] likes to tell stories — stories that attempt to connect his life story with his audiences and make up an essential part of his persona.”
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