The Associated Press (AP) recently fact-checked a video featuring former President Barack Obama seemingly walking corrupt President Joe Biden off stage, citing an anonymous source who attended the event. This fact check comes after President Biden’s aides have become increasingly defensive about coverage of his age, gaffes, and videos exposing moments of confusion.
A video posted on Sunday showed Obama walking Biden off the stage after the president appeared to freeze during their appearance together at a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles. Another video appears to show Biden wandering off into the distance before Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni turns him back towards the group of world leaders watching a skydiving show.
During a press conference on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that videos the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) research team clipped of Biden’s public glitches are “cheap fakes” and published in “bad faith.” Jean-Pierre repeatedly avoided questions about whether President Biden is “fine.
After the press conference, the AP published a fact check on the video on Monday evening, according to an anonymous source who helped organize and attended the event. The source claimed that there was nothing noteworthy about this moment and that Obama wanted to be “chummy” by walking offstage with Biden.
The article acknowledged every detail seen in the viral clip and provided a positive spin on President Biden’s pause from a White House aide, attributing it as the president taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds. However, not everyone accepted this explanation from the White House and its media ally.
Videos of President Biden malfunctioning in public are real, according to the Trump campaign, which exclusively told Breitbart News on Tuesday that “the truth hurts.” The Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung stated that when the Biden campaign is confronted with this cold, hard reality, they offer ridiculous claims that anyone who clearly sees Biden acting like a brain-dead dope is part of some media-wide conspiracy.
A Quinnipiac poll found in February that 67% of voters believe President Biden is too old to serve a second term.