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Biden raises eyebrows with claim he 'used to drive' 18-wheeler truck
Fox News ^ | July 29, 2021 | Houston Keene

Posted on 07/29/2021 5:58:03 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

Forty-eight-year political veteran President Biden raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he claimed to have driven an 18-wheeler truck — a claim the White House struggled to defend.

Biden was visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania when he made the claim to have driven the massive trucks before, which require a special kind of license.

"I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man," Biden said on Wednesday in a video posted to Twitter. "I got to."

There is scant evidence that Biden has ever driven an 18-wheeler truck.

When asked if the president had ever driven such a truck, a White House spokesperson pointed to a December 1973 article from the Wilmington Evening Journal that showed Biden rode in an 18-wheeler on a 536-mile haul to Ohio.

Fox News pressed the spokesperson about the president’s claim – noting that riding in a truck is not the same as driving one – at which point the president's spokesperson pointed to a United Federation of Teachers post that touched on Biden driving a school bus in the past as a summer job.

The majority of school buses, on average, "have two axles, with the bigger models having two wheels on the front axle and four wheels on the dual axle, for a total of six wheels," according to SchoolBusFleet.com.

Fox News pressed again about the president’s claim, pointing out that a school bus is not the same as an 18-wheeler truck, but did not receive a response by publishing time.

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To: Rennes Templar

Hey, Pres...I used to drive a double-decker London Transport bus. The difference is, I really did so- my employers owned two bars a half mile apart, one with almost no parking and the other with parking to spare. I shuttled customers back and forth a couple of days a weekend for a summer season.

Had to learn the intricacies of a pre-selector transmission and watch for low-hanging branches and wires.


41 posted on 07/29/2021 6:49:47 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Red Badger

That was merely a pit stop on the way to driving the Mars Rover around.


42 posted on 07/29/2021 6:51:14 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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43 posted on 07/29/2021 6:51:45 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Rennes Templar

Let’s see the record of his CDL. What state, Delaware?


44 posted on 07/29/2021 6:52:26 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Maybe that’s when he beat up Corn Pop. 😆


45 posted on 07/29/2021 6:52:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Rennes Templar
Biden drove an 18 wheeler....?

If so...where is his CDL license....and travel logs....and medical certificates.....and random drug test forms....

If he was in politics for over half a century when and where did he drive.....?

46 posted on 07/29/2021 6:54:01 AM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: Rennes Templar

Can he still count to 18?


47 posted on 07/29/2021 7:04:05 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

” Biden has lied lied about himself all his life...”


Yes, he has. This is not new. Graduated at the top of his class at law school, the guy involved in his wife’s/child’s wreck was drunk, etc. Figured he could say almost anything and no one would bother to check it out. As a Delaware pol he could get away with it but as a national politician people started to fact check him.

The lying is not new, but the clumsiness of the lies is. The fact that the President of the United States is a liar is not unprecedented, that he is serving while suffering dementia is. The huge problem for us all is who’s on deck.


48 posted on 07/29/2021 7:10:13 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Tommy Revolts

LOL, there you have it!


49 posted on 07/29/2021 7:12:41 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: Rennes Templar

Stories like “Biden the Trucker” are dumb diversions.....watch the border and the transport of illegals to the heartland, watch Arizona and the stolen election, watch the Fed inflicting inflation on us.....these must not disappear from the headlines. Hammer them, hammer them hard.


50 posted on 07/29/2021 7:17:51 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Rennes Templar
He almost drove the new Ford electric truck last month. Does that count?
51 posted on 07/29/2021 7:18:14 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Rennes Templar

He’s the face of the ruling junta. Nobody cares what he says because the globalist press is part of the junta.


52 posted on 07/29/2021 7:22:27 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: hanamizu
He claimed he was arrested in South Africa during Apartheid which didn't happen. His story about being arrested for going into the Senate chamber when it was closed (before he was a senator) also sounds like his made-up BS.

I've known people like him who make up a lot of crap about themselves. All their lies are of the self-aggrandizing variety and are easily detected. I don't believe ANYTHING Joe has ever said about himself.

53 posted on 07/29/2021 7:25:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

But he also knows the media won’t call him on it.


54 posted on 07/29/2021 7:26:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Well Biden is only semi there, so I guess that makes sense.


55 posted on 07/29/2021 7:27:55 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: dfwgator

I think they all know he’s demented, and they see him as the country’s doddering old grampa who is so cute when he tells them his favorite flavor of ice cream or goes boom-boom in his Depends®.


56 posted on 07/29/2021 7:28:40 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Real Cynic No More
Whadda ya mean when he was a kid? That was this morning.
57 posted on 07/29/2021 7:31:53 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: mountainlion

Biden has a buggy chip set.......


58 posted on 07/29/2021 7:36:51 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Rennes Templar
Wait till he visits a Boeing plant.

LOL. Or a NASA facility.
"I flew into space once and there was nothing there, but you could see stars and that...you know, the thing...the moon!"
59 posted on 07/29/2021 7:38:27 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Scooter100
Stories like “Biden the Trucker” are dumb diversions.....watch the border and the transport of illegals to the heartland,

...the transport of thousands of UNACCOMPANIED children who are now being picked up by "family" and/or "sponsors" at various locations. What the heck is going on here?! Media is hardly covering it. A blip in the news cycle. These children are going who-knows-where...
60 posted on 07/29/2021 7:44:25 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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