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Joe Biden shamelessly inserted himself into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse by saying that he regularly commuted over the bridge during his days in the Senate.
“At about 1:30, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many times commuting from the state of Delaware either on a train or by car,” he said.
The problem with this claim is that the four-lane bridge doesn’t have any train tracks on it — just two lanes for car traffic in each direction. So Biden never once took the train over that bridge. As we previously pointed out at PJ Media, he earned a reputation as “Amtrak Joe” for his years of commuting via train while in the Senate.
While many pointed out that Biden had once again embellished his biography with a lie, the left-wing fact-checking site PolitiFact came rushing to his defense.
“President Joe Biden came under criticism following his remarks about the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge,” the site reported Wednesday.
Some news coverage also focused on Biden’s comments about taking trains.
