The Republican National Committee shared a comprehensive list of President Joe Biden’s biggest whoppers on Tuesday, from his repeated claims that he drove an 18-wheeler to his insistence that a 2004 house fire — which was reportedly contained to his kitchen — had very nearly killed his wife and a couple of fire-fighters.
The list, which the RNC shared on Tuesday, detailed “21 made-up stories Biden has told about himself as president.”
First on the list was Biden’s claim that he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler.
“I used to drive a tractor trailer … I only did it for part of a summer,” Biden said in 2021 — but according to Politifact, there is no evidence he ever did that. He did ride in a tractor-trailer once as a senator, however, and he drove a bus one summer during law school.
1. Biden claimed — on multiple occasions — he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler.
Biden **rode** in an 18-wheeler once nearly 50 years ago. He’s never driven one.https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Whopper number two was Biden’s claim that he spoke with the inventor of insulin — but of the several people credited with the discovery of artificial insulin, two were dead prior to Biden’s birth and there is no evidence that he ever had any contact with the others.
3. Biden claimed he “had a house burn down with my wife in it” and said they “almost lost a couple firefighters.”
In 2005, Biden’s house had a “small” fire that was contained to the kitchen and “there were no injuries.”https://t.co/smEweQxg4E
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Number three was Biden’s repeated claim that a 2004 fire in Delaware nearly burned the house down with his wife in it and could have claimed the lives of a couple of the firemen as well — but local reporting suggests that the fire was quickly contained to the kitchen and that no one was injured.
Next on the list was Biden’s claim that he had grown up in the Puerto Rican community in Delaware — where in 1970, Puerto Ricans accounted for 0.39% of the population.
5. Biden said he remembered “spending time” and “going to” the Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 shooting.
The synagogue said Biden never visited.https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Then came Biden’s claim that he visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue after the shooting — despite the synagogue having no record of any such visit — and Biden’s assertion that he had served as a liaison to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six Day War. That claim was problematic due to the fact that Biden was not yet a senator — and Meir was not yet PM — when that war took place.
7. Biden claimed his “first job offer” came from Boise Cascade, an Idaho lumber company.
The company said they have “no record of President Biden’s application or of him having worked for the company.”https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Next came Biden’s “first job offer” — which he said came from an Idaho lumber company that has no record of him applying for a job — and his “first arrest,” which he said was for a civil rights protest. However, there are no records showing that Biden was ever arrested or even attended such a protest.
9. Biden claimed that he had a conversation with an Amtrak conductor in 2012 or 2013 about traveling over 1 million miles on Air Force Two.
The conductor retired in 1993, passed away in 2014, and Biden didn’t reach 1 million miles on AF2 until 2015.https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Biden’s now-infamous Amtrak story — in which he claimed to have discussed reaching the million-mile mark with a conductor who died before he reached that milestone — was fib number nine.
Coming in at number ten was Biden’s claim that he was “appointed to the Naval Academy in 1965” — despite the fact that he graduated from the University of Delaware in that same year.
11. Biden claimed oil refinery pollution is the reason “I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.”
Biden doesn’t have cancer. He *had* skin cancer, but the cause was sun exposure — not pollution. https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Then came Biden’s claim that he got cancer from oil-refinery pollution — he did have skin cancer, but that was attributed to sun exposure — and his insistence that he was a full professor at University of Pennsylvania. Records show he never actually taught a class.
13. Biden claimed his “great-grandpop was” a coal miner — something he has been saying for decades.
He wasn’t.https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Next came the claim that his “great-grandpop was a coal miner” (he was not) and his assertion that as VP, he had finally gotten an overdue Purple Heart for his Uncle Frank. Biden’s Uncle Frank passed away before he was elected Vice President, and did not earn a Purple Heart.
15. Biden claimed he hit a ball 368 feet “off the wall” at his second Congressional baseball game.
Biden actually went 0-2, according to a 1974 newspaper article. pic.twitter.com/dXbPJJrfEP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Biden also claimed (whopper #15) to have hit a long ball “368 feet off the wall” at his second Congressional Baseball game — where in reality, he was 0 for 2.
Keeping with the sports theme, number 16 was Biden’s claim that his grandfather was an All-American football star at Santa Clara University — but NCAA and SCU records suggest otherwise.
17. Biden claimed he “could have been an All-American” football player.
Biden played on the *freshman* football team for part of *one* semester in college. That’s it. pic.twitter.com/rgBhoddAwp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Biden went on to claim (number 17) that he could have been an All-American, but he played on the freshman team for only one semester. He also said (number 18) that he “almost” walked on to an NFL team and could have made it in the pros.
19. Biden claimed he was “shot at” overseas — something he also lied about in 2007.
It never happened.https://t.co/kX424rAwhE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
Number 19 revisited Biden’s 2007 claim that he was “shot at” while traveling overseas and number 20 was a flashback to his time as a county councilman. He told a story about a woman who called and asked him to remove a dead dog from her lawn, and despite claiming one time that he put it on her doorstep, he said another time that he had removed it.
21. Biden repeatedly claimed he was “involved” in the civil rights movement.
None of that is remotely true. Biden even admitted in 1987 he was “not an activist.”pic.twitter.com/ijty46nY83
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 10, 2023
And rounding out the list at number 21 was the president’s oft-repeated claim that he was actively involved in the civil rights movement — despite no evidence that he was involved at all.
