President Joe Biden followed up last week’s retelling of his debunked Amtrak conductor tale with another chestnut from the past, this one about a fire in the kitchen of his Delaware home.
The storyteller-in-chief paid a visit to Philadelphia on Monday where he announced the awarding of a federal grant to reopen three decommissioned fire companies and during his speech to firefighters, Biden dramatically exaggerated the minor blaze as he has done on multiple occasions.
Biden opened his speech by recalling how firefighters “saved my life” when he had an aneurysm during a snowstorm and transported him to the hospital where he underwent surgery, the serial exaggerator also credited the first responders with saving his wife, his pets, and more importantly, his treasured 1967 Corvette Stingray muscle car.
Biden, speaking to firefighters in Philadelphia, once again tells the fake story about almost losing his house in a fire.
It’s all a lie. According to a 2004 AP report, it was “a small fire…contained to the kitchen” and “was under control in 20 minutes.” pic.twitter.com/eWP1Ji7hit
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 11, 2023
“They also saved my home and my wife’s life when I was away. It was the last day that — the most famous guy doing ‘Meet the Press’ in Washington, D.C., and I was doing the program,” Biden began. “And what happened was there was a — lightning struck a little pond behind my house, hit a wire, came up through the basement of my home and three stories. And the smoke literally ended up being that thick,” as he gestured with his hands, ” literally that thick. You’ve seen it — you guys have seen it.”
“I wasn’t there. And my wife was there and my — my dog and my cat, — and my ’67 Corvette,” he said. “But all kidding aside, they saved my wife. They got her out. Saved my home.”
Biden was retelling an embellished tale about a 2004 fire at his residence that was fact-checked by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post after he told it during a 2021 speech in New Hampshire, tweeting out an Associated Press story on the “small fire that was contained to the kitchen,” hardly the roaring inferno that the serial fabricator-in-chief described it as.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 11, 2023
“Lightning struck the home of Sen. Joseph Biden, starting a small fire that was contained to the kitchen,” according to the report. “No one was injured in Sunday’s fire, which started amid a storm that caused serious flooding in Pennsylvania and knocked out power to hundreds of Delaware homes and businesses.”
“Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house, but were able to keep the flames from spreading beyond the kitchen, said Cranston Heights Fire Company Chief George Lamborn,” the outlet reported.
“Luckily, we got it pretty early,” the Chief Lamborn is quoted. “The fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
Biden most recently told his raging inferno fable at the site of an actual devastating fire in Maui when he visited the charred island paradise in August.
August 22, 2023:
Biden told Maui wildfire victims, “I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat” in a house fire.pic.twitter.com/DNY0Tyatg7
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 11, 2023
“To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat. But all kidding aside, I watched the firefighters, the way they responded,” he told victims of the devastating wildfires, some of who lost everything in the deadly blazes.
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