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Claimed Amtrak conductor 'came up to him' and praised his train miles — the conductor had been dead for years

"And a guy named Angelo Negri came up and he grabbed my arm… and he said, 'Joey, baby…'"

Biden told this story repeatedly. When journalists checked, they found Angelo Negri had retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in 2014 — meaning the interaction Biden described could not have happened as told.

Date
May 5, 2021
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article