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Videos of Biden looking lost are a viral political tactic: 'low-level manipulation' [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/19/joe-biden-edited-videosVideos of Biden looking lost are a viral political tactic: ‘low-level manipulation’
Rachel Leingang
The edited videos are often posted to question the US president’s mental fitness at 81
Wed 19 Jun 2024 06.00 EDT
Joe Biden wandered off.
Standing among the west’s major leaders in Italy last week, the US president turned away, seemingly in confusion, and had to be alerted back to the group to take a photo – at least, that’s what rightwing media showed.
“WHAT IS BIDEN DOING?” the Republican National Committee’s research Twitter account wrote [see source for link].
In actuality, it was nothing strange at all. Biden had turned toward skydivers and given them a thumbs up, a broader view of the video showed.
[...]
Rachel Leingang
The edited videos are often posted to question the US president’s mental fitness at 81
Wed 19 Jun 2024 06.00 EDT
Joe Biden wandered off.
Standing among the west’s major leaders in Italy last week, the US president turned away, seemingly in confusion, and had to be alerted back to the group to take a photo – at least, that’s what rightwing media showed.
“WHAT IS BIDEN DOING?” the Republican National Committee’s research Twitter account wrote [see source for link].
In actuality, it was nothing strange at all. Biden had turned toward skydivers and given them a thumbs up, a broader view of the video showed.
[...]
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