(Daily Wire) Viral clips showing President Joe Biden in situations in which he looks to be frail or confused are being dismissed as “cheap fakes” by the White House.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sought to discredit the videos, which have proliferated amid concerns about 81-year-old Biden’s mental acuity and physical fitness as he runs for a second term, when a reporter pressed her to address them during the White House press briefing on Monday.
“I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that’s exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video,” Jean-Pierre said from behind the podium.
REPORTER: “There seems to be a rash of videos that have been edited to make the President appear especially frail or mentally confused…”
KJP: “They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith.” pic.twitter.com/uXJ2sgxMiE
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“They are done in bad faith,” she continued. “And some of your news organizations have, have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing, the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.”
Jean-Pierre went on, “And so we see this, and this is something coming from your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.”
One recent video showed Biden wandering away from other G-7 leaders watching skydivers descend during a photo op in Italy. Another from over the weekend showed former President Barack Obama grabbing onto Biden at a fundraiser in Los Angeles and walking with him off the stage.
