The Most Unintentionally Hilarious Fact Check on Joe Biden’s Truck Driving Claim Has Arrived – Opinion

Joe Biden is notorious for making up stories on the fly about his and his family’s history, a troubling penchant that dates back to at least his 1988 presidential campaign.

That campaign, the first of three tries at winning the Democratic nomination, was derailed after it was discovered that he partially plagiarized a speech from then-British Labour party leader Neil Kinnock and switched some things around regarding his and the Biden family’s academic/educational background. Biden was found to have borrowed from speeches given by President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and others without proper credit.

Biden, 33 years after his arrest, is still at the helm of this fake story. One such lie he often mentions is the one that he drove an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer back in the 1970s. RedState’s Nick Arama has fact-checked Biden twice on this, first in July when he stated that he “used to drive an 18 wheeler” and again late last month when he made the same claim while on a road trip in Minnesota to tout his bloated infrastructure package.

Politifact didn’t fact-check this statement even though Biden made it many times. They posted a full write-up on their website, but the broadcast version done by reporter Paul Specht at WRAL-TV out of Raleigh, NC was one of the more unintentionally hilarious fact checks I’ve seen done on any Biden claim, let alone as it relates to his truck driving claim.

Specht also notes the opinions of RedState about whether Biden is thinking about a period when he allegedly drove a bus to school as a Syracuse University Student in the 1960s. it was foundThat he Rode inA tractor-trailer vehicle truck from 1973.

But it was the look on Specht’s face and the gestures he made with his hands that made the clip so unintentionally funny. Watch below at around the :49 mark when he points out that “of course, [driving a school bus is] It is not the same thing as driving a tractor-trailer” as though the point needed to be emphasized so certain folks (maybe Biden?) would finally get it – LOL:

FALSE: WRAL TV reports that Biden “used to drive tractor-trailer”

“The closest we came was Biden’s 1973 ride in a tractor trailer and his experience in it.” pic.twitter.com/G2KdINcfBm

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 13, 2021

Though this fact-check was one of the more humorous ones done in recent memory, I’m not quite sure it tops the White House’s attempted “clean-up” of Joe Biden’s remarks during a CNN town hall from October where he said he’s “been to the border” and “knows it well.” In response, “fact-checkers” at the Washington Post did some digging and found out that Biden’s lone “visit” was a drive-by en route to an Obama-Biden campaign event in October 2008. Laughably, they didn’t give the claim a rating, something the White House ran with the next day when asked about it by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy.

For those who didn’t see it, here was this amazing exchange:

Doocy says: “I’d like to continue with something the president stated last night. What is the reason that President Biden claimed he had been to the border?

Psaki: Peter, you might have noticed that there has been some reporting that he drove through the border while he was campaigning in 2008″ pic.twitter.com/0pPtu2oneC

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 22, 2021

This is just ridiculous. It’s just pathetic. Only things we had to worry about as far as Joe Biden is concerned…

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