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President Joe Biden repeated a lie he's told in the past about having
driven an 18-wheeler truck at a speech in Florida Tuesday. At 81, the
oldest president in American history, Biden has remained a gaffe machine throughout his presidency, often re-telling lies about his biography
that have been repeatedly debunked, even by mainstream outlets.

At Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Bay on Tuesday, Biden claimed
to have driven a big rig. 'I used to drive an 18-wheeler,' he said, as
he attempted to discuss how he'd negotiated pensions for labor unions.
Biden was called out by CNN along with conservative-leaning media for
the lie but it's not the first time the president has made the bizarre
claim.

In 2021, Biden was caught off-camera by a local news channel's
microphone during a visit to a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania ,
making the claim that he had driven such trucks before. 'I used to drive
an 18-wheeler, man,' Biden was heard saying on Wednesday in a video
later posted to Twitter. 'I got to.' Large trucks such as the one Biden
gave a speech in-front of during the visit to the facility require a
special license to drive, and there is scant evidence that he has ever
driven an 18-wheeler truck as he was heard claiming. 'There is *zero
evidence* that Biden 'used to drive an 18 wheeler,"' tweeted the RNC's
Zach Parkinson, who is also the director of 'RNC Research' whose twitter account posted the video online. 'The extent of Biden's trucking
experience is that he **rode in** a truck once, for one night in 1973
(he made sure to return home by plane though),' he said.



In 2024 alone, Biden has made several mistakes, publicly forgetting the
name of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny's widow, forgetting a German chancellor he'd spoken to died in 2017 and confusing the leaders of
Egypt and Mexico. Then, there's the matter of the shocking transcript of
his testimony to former Special Counsel Robert Hur. Hur was appointed
special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January 2022 to investigate the president's handling of classified files based on a
range of areas including Afghanistan.

According to the transcript of the two-day interview reviewed by
DailyMail.com ahead of Hur's highly-anticipated congressional testimony,
Biden brought up Beau's death in the context of a book he wrote
published in 2017. 'What month did Beau die?' Biden asked to himself
during the hours-long sit down on October 8, 2022. 'Oh God, May 30th,'
he seemingly responded. But the president had to be reminded about the
year in which his oldest son died because he could not remember. A White
House attorney stepped in to state that the year of Beau's death was
2015. 'Was it 2015 he died?' Biden again questioned out loud. The
president then went on to ask if Donald Trump was elected in 2017, to
which another White House attorney jumped in to correct him that it was
2016.

The mix-up of Beau's death date during the interview directly
contradicts Biden's fiery denial that it ever occurred. Hours after Hur
put out his scathing report on February 9, Biden engaged in a furious
tirade from the White House saying 'I know what the hell I am doing!'
and insisting that 'my memory is fine.' Similarly, Biden has several
times erroneously said in speeches that his eldest son died in Iraq. 'My
son was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq,' Biden told the
troops in Iwakuni on Thursday. Beau Biden, who served as Delaware's
attorney general and in the Delaware Army National Guard in the Iraq
War, died at age 46 in 2015 from brain cancer at the Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. It was at least
the third time America's oldest living president - gearing up for a run
for a second term in 2024 - spoke misleadingly about his eldest son's
death in public. The president has previously faced criticism for
embellishing his past, with claims about his involvement in the Civil
Rights movement and working in coal mines coming under scrutiny.

Biden's 1988 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination also
came undone over claims he embellished biographical details for years, including misstatements about his academic record, according to the
Washington Examiner. However, at this point, the president's
misremembering clearly affects how the voters view his ability to serve
a second term.


The results show how the 81-year-old president's age will be a major
factor on November 5 when voters pick the commander in chief they want
for the next four years. Donald Trump, his Republican rival, is only
four years younger but voters harbor fewer doubts. More than half say
they are confident he will make it through a full term, with 34 percent
saying they have doubts. Either way, the results show how Republicans
and Democrats will have to weigh up not just their choice of president
but also consider who is likely to step into the breach if ill health—or worse—incapacitates the leader of the free world.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-blasted-for- repeating-lie-that-he-used-to-drive-18-wheeler/ss-AA1nDJZ0

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