Pinnochio, I mean, President Joe Biden has fact-checked once again after repeating an already debunked lie about traveling 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
During Biden’s Greek Independence Day Reception speech, claimed that he has covered extensive ground during visits with the Chinese president— a lie he has been telling since 2016. However, there is no proof that this happened.
“I was once asked by Xi Jinping, and I traveled 17,000 miles with him — I was out at the Tibetan plateau. He looked at me and he said, "Can you define America?" I could say the same thing if he asked me to define Greece,” Biden said. “I said, "Yes, one word" and I mean this sincerely, it's recorded, I said, “possibilities.”
It is worth noting that the White House has never explained where the so-called “17,000 miles” came from or how Biden came up with that number.
The Washington Post rated Biden’s lie as a “bottomless Pinocchio,” describing his comment as “false or misleading statements repeated so often that they became a form of propaganda.”
This is not the first time the WaPo has called out Biden for touting his relationship with the Chinese leader. In 2021, the outlet pointed out that Biden had repeated the lie at least 21 times.
In April 2022, during a press conference on the White House lawn, Biden claimed he was in the “foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping” when he was serving as vice president under the Obama Administration.
BIDEN: "I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that's when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don't know that for a fact." pic.twitter.com/hoiGCUGckR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 8, 2022
Biden made several embarrassing gaffes during his speech on Thursday, including a moment where he referred to the “O'Biden administration” instead of the Obama Administration.
Biden’s flub comes amid several polls show him losing steam in key battleground states ahead of the November election.
A recent Wall Street Journal survey found that former President Donald Trump is viewed more favorably than the president in six of the seven states including, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Trump has secured a five-point lead in Arizona, a four-point lead in Nevada, and a three-point lead in both Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Regarding the two presidential candidate’s mental and physical ability to hold office, 48 percent of voters say Trump is more fit to serve as president, while only 28 percent believe Biden can readily serve another four years in office.