The even bigger picture: the press is not doing their job. Either they sit back and report what they see on social media, or act as a narrative filter to keep

The even bigger picture: the press is not doing their job. Either they sit back and report what they see on social media, or act as a narrative filter to keep people from being confused by the facts. The precipitous drop in readership at the WaPo and related layoffs are a hopeful sign that perhaps a correction is in the works. Meanwhile, Biden makes false claims about his past all the time, such as how he used to drive an 18 wheeler. Or this fun one about his use of Amtrak: “When I became vice president, one of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I had taken more than 7,000 round trips on Amtrak over my career,” Biden said. “I think that’s an exaggeration. I’m going to rely on those two conductors. … One of them was a guy named Angelo Negri.” Biden continued, telling the audience Negri estimated Biden had traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak trains around his fourth or fifth year as vice president, which would have been in 2013 or 2014. “My mom was sick, and I used to try to come home almost every weekend as vice president to see her,” Biden said. “I got on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, ‘Joey, baby,’ and he grabbed my cheek like he always did. … He said, ‘Joey, what’s the big deal? One-point-three million miles on Air Force Two? Do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?’ I said, ‘No, Angie, I don’t know.’ He gave me the calculation and he said ‘You traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak.;” However, an obituary for Negri says the conductor retired in 1993, decades before Biden’s supposed story took place, while he was still a senator from Delaware. Biden’s mother died in 2010.