“My point was that when I came back from meeting with him and traveling 17,000 miles with him when I was vice president and he was the vice president — that’s how I got to know him so well.”
What Washington Post found
President Biden keeps claiming he's traveled 17,000 miles with Chinese president Xi Jinping, but that's unverified and misleading.
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 16 February 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 February 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/17/remarks-by-president…
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