It had all the tells: “Joey.” “True story.”

While speaking with radio host Howard Stern on Friday, President Biden repeated a debunked lie about how, when he was younger, he was arrested for standing on a porch with a black family.

Listen to the clip below:

Biden’s tall tale was previously debunked by The Washington Post; they gave the story four Pinocchios.

The stories are roughly the same but there are subtle changes. In four cases, the protest supposedly took place in Lynnfield, Del., which was near the town of Mayfield. Biden’s family moved there in 1955, the year he turned 13. In one version, the protest took place in Carrcroft, which is nearby. Both Lynnfield and Carrcroft are about a mile from Mayfield.

In three cases, Biden asserts he was arrested for standing on the porch with the Black couple who were subject to demonstrations. On the face of it, that doesn’t make much sense. After all, what would be the charge?

In two versions, Biden says the police merely brought him back home from the protest after he stood on the porch. That makes a little more sense, though it’s unclear why police would take the time if they had their hands full with a protest. In any case, this means there would be no arrest record.

Twice, Biden says he was 14 years old, once he says he was 13 and another time he says he was 15.

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The primary source for this story is Biden — and we’ve learned over the years that he is not always a reliable source. He appears to be citing his mother to enhance his civil rights credentials — which we have noted he has exaggerated before — but too many elements do not add up to give this “arrest” more credibility than his previous claims of getting in trouble with the law.

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