Posts Misrepresent Video of Biden with Trump Hat - FactCheck.org

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September 13, 2024

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A viral video exhibiting President Joe Biden briefly donning a marketing campaign hat for Donald Trump has been used to counsel that Biden is endorsing Trump. He isn’t. He had exchanged hats with a Trump supporter at a 9/11 memorial in an effort to point out unity.

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On the twenty third anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults, President Joe Biden participated in memorials on the three areas the place planes had crashed.

Whereas he was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for a wreath-laying ceremony with Vice President Kamala Harris on the Flight 93 National Memorial, Biden additionally visited the local fire station, the place he spoke with first responders and space residents.

One trade he had on the fireplace station has now turn into fodder for misinformation spreaders on-line.

In a now viral video, Biden is proven speaking to a person carrying a hat supporting Donald Trump for president. Biden, who dropped his bid for reelection on July 21 and endorsed Harris, provided the person a hat with the presidential seal in trade for the Trump hat.

Then, with encouragement from the group, Biden placed on the Trump hat for a second and smiled. White Home spokesman Andrew Bates later described the transfer as a gesture of unity.

Bates mentioned: “On the Shanksville Hearth Station, @POTUS spoke in regards to the nation’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and mentioned we would have liked to get again to that. As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then mentioned that in the identical spirit, POTUS ought to placed on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it.”

However some social media posts have used clips or screenshots of the video to counsel that Biden has switched his help to the Republican candidate for president.

Trump’s marketing campaign, for instance, posted a two-second clip from the video on X, and mentioned, “BREAKING: Kamala did so unhealthy in final night time’s debate, Joe Biden simply placed on a Trump hat.”

One other X account referred to as Breaking911, which we’ve written about before, referred to the video and posted, “IT’S OFFICIAL! BIDEN ENDORSES TRUMP! After carrying a MAGA hat as we speak, the previous man posed with youngsters in Pennsylvania sporting TRUMP SHIRTS!”

And on Fb, Peggy Hubbard — who ran unsuccessfully in 2022 to be the Republican Senate candidate from Illinois — posted a screenshot from the video and mentioned, “HEY KAMALA! LIKE TRUMP SAID, ‘BIDEN DOESN’T LIKE YOU!’ I GUESS HE’S NOT WITH HER?”

For weeks, Trump has been baselessly claiming that Biden “hates” Harris for forcing Biden to finish his marketing campaign. At a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 18, he said, “Joe Biden hates her. This was an overthrow of a president.” And, throughout the Sept. 10 debate, Trump said, “I’ll provide you with just a little secret — he hates her, he can’t stand her.”

However Biden has praised Harris, saying throughout his speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August, “Choosing Kamala was the very first resolution I made after I turned our nominee, and it was the perfect resolution I made my complete profession. We’ve not solely gotten to know one another. We’ve turn into shut pals. She’s powerful. She’s skilled, and she or he has monumental integrity.”

Biden continues to help Harris’ marketing campaign for president, with plans to make appearances on her behalf in a number of key states. Any suggestion that his temporary donning of a Trump hat signifies that he’s switched his allegiance is fake.

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