{"id":1418588,"date":"2022-04-04T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418588"},"modified":"2022-04-04T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:30:16","slug":"joe-biden-revises-story-about-when-he-used-to-drive-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-revises-story-about-when-he-used-to-drive-a-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Revises Story About When He &#039;Used to Drive a Truck&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-revises-story-about-when-he-used-to-drive-a-truck%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden spoke at a trucking event at the White House on Monday, using the occasion to revise a story about when he \u201cused to drive a truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to drive a truck,\u201d he said in a speech on trucking outside the White House with two Mack trucks behind him. \u201cIt\u2019s a long story. Anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden\u2019s claim about driving a truck has shifted over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/video\/rnc-fact-checks-biden-driving-214300127.html\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0in July 2021 that he \u201cused to drive an 18-wheeler,\u201d even though there is no evidence he ever did so.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he also claimed in November that he \u201cused to drive a tractor-trailer\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Even establishment media fact-checkers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/dec\/03\/joe-biden\/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver\/\">rated<\/a>\u00a0those Biden\u2019s claim as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/biden-18-wheeler-truck\/\">false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday, Biden shared more details of his truck-driving claim, explaining he once got a commercial driver\u2019s license to help his dad, who ran a car dealership:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I remember \u2014 I\u2019m going to digress for one second \u2014 I got a commercial license because my dad used to run an automobile agency, and I used to have to go up to a body shop up in Philadelphia from Wilmington, and when they\u2019d order a trailer or a cab, they\u2019d sell the cab. And I had to have a license to be able to drive it up and back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is unclear exactly what Joe Biden was referring to, but it does not seem likely he ever had a Class A commercial driver\u2019s license required to drive large semi-trucks or tractor-trailers.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-drive-school-bus-president-discusses-college-summer-job-1605451\">claimed<\/a> he got a summer job in law school as a bus driver, which would have required a Class B license.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>During his speech Monday, Biden also recalled riding with a truck driver during a truckers\u2019 strike in the 1970s when he was a senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis handle was Big 10,\u201d Biden recalled, telling the story of when the pair tried to park at a rest area during a drive to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only woman truck driver I ever knew, I met that day. She said, \u2018This is Big Mama. No room,&#8217;\u201d he recalled, recounting the conversation they had over the CB radio at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Biden recalled that when the truck driver tried to tell her he had a United States senator in the cab with him, she fired back a joke that she had the president in her cab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never forget that,\u201d Biden recalled. \u201cI was a very powerful guy. Anyway, that was the first woman trucker I met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also expressed some sadness that he was unable to drive the trucks that were behind him at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I was going to drive one of these suckers today, but anyway, that\u2019s another story, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden spoke at a trucking event at the White House on Monday, using the occasion to revise a story about when he \u201cused to drive a truck.\u201d \u201cI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}