Joe Biden Repeats Debunked Lie: He Traveled with Xi Jinping 17,000 Miles in Tibet

President Joe Biden repeated a debunked lie on Thursday that he has traveled 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Biden said Thursday at a Greek Independence Day Reception:

I was once asked by Xi Jinping in — I traveled 17,000 miles with him in Tibet. I was on the Tibetan Plateau. And he looked at me, and he said to me, ‘Can you define America?’ And I could say the same thing if he asked me to define Greece. I said, ‘Yes, one word,’ — and I mean this sincerely; it’s reg- — it’s recorded. I said, ‘One word: possibilities.’ ‘Possibilities.’

There is no evidence Biden ever traveled 17,000 miles with Xi.

The Washington Post‘s fact checker, Glenn Kessler, in 2022 even gave Biden “bottomless Pinocchios” for repeatedly making the debunked claim. As Kessler first pointed out in 2021, Biden has been repeating this story since 2016, with no evidence to back it up.

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