Unfounded Rumor Claims Masked Joe Biden 'Physique Double' Captured on Video

In June 2024, X person Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888), who beforehand has trafficked in various unsupported conspiracy theories, created a collection of posts and a short video selling rumors about U.S. President Joe Biden. Wallace primarily claimed to have “hidden footage” exhibiting a masked “physique double” for Biden. He additionally mentioned that “physique double” would stand in for the president on the June 27 CNN debate with former President Donald Trump.

Nonetheless, Wallace’s posts and video didn’t present any credible proof to assist his claims. As such, we selected our fact-check ranking of “Unfounded.” We define our “Unfounded” ranking as claims we have now investigated however discovered no supportive demonstrable proof. Such claims often originate as rumour, hypothesis or groundless rumor.

We contacted Wallace through a direct message on X to ask questions and have detailed our correspondence later on this story.

On this article, we are going to present particulars about Wallace’s posts and transient video, in addition to additional info wanting into the veracity of his claims.

Wallace’s Posts on X

On June 20, Wallace posted on X, “BREAKING: I HAVE OBTAINED EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO USE A FAKE JOE BIDEN FOR THE TRUMP DEBATE.”

A day later, Wallace created one other post on X studying, “BREAKING: HIDDEN FOOTAGE CAPTURED OF FAKE JOE BIDEN MASK BODY DOUBLE. SHARE THIS VIDEO QUICKLY BEFORE IT IS WIPED FROM THE INTERNET.”

Wallace’s second publish featured a hyperlink to a video (archived) on his channel (archived) on the Rumble video platform. That video’s title learn, “HIDDEN FOOTAGE CAPTURED OF FAKE JOE BIDEN MASK BODY DOUBLE.” The video obtained practically 100,000 views in simply 4 hours — a comparatively excessive mark for Rumble.

A number of different posts in Wallace’s feed on X additionally promoted comparable claims. For instance, one post posited after Biden gained the coin toss for the upcoming debate, he selected the choice of choosing his podium place over being the final candidate to ship closing remarks, supposedly for “physique double” causes.

Breaking Down Wallace’s Video

Wallace’s video on Rumble lasts 2 minutes and 32 seconds and incorporates a spooky-sounding music observe. At no level through the video does Wallace current any supply info for the content material displayed.

The start of Wallace’s video incorporates a second from a CNBC interview from December 2019. The video exhibits a zoomed-in have a look at Biden’s face and neck throughout a marketing campaign cease in New Hampton, Iowa. We situated additional photos and a video of Biden from the identical go to to the city.

Wallace then exhibits pages from a guide with out disclosing its title. The guide purportedly incorporates image comparisons of Biden and a “physique double.” Wallace narrates, “It is really easy to inform which a kind of is the faux Joe Biden and which is the true Joe Biden.”

A number of the photos within the guide seem to match images of Biden’s face from a number of years earlier than to more-recent photographs. Concerning such comparisons, we’ll word that in 2019, New York magazine reported about rumors of Biden present process cosmetic surgery. We had been unable to search out any official statements through which Biden ever confirmed such procedures.

Jonna Mendez Clips

The center portion of Wallace’s video shows clips from a years-old video from the conspiratorial Instagram account @thetruthworldorder. That Instagram video contains clips of a lady named Jonna Mendez speaking about her time working with the CIA. Her work featured the creation of masks and different protecting disguising practices meant for CIA brokers.

In keeping with the YouTube video description for a TEDx Discuss delivered by Mendez throughout or earlier than 2019, she is a retired CIA intelligence officer with 27 years of service, together with serving underneath the title of chief of disguise. The Instagram video and Wallace’s video each featured a portion of Mendez’s TEDx Discuss from TEDxFoggyBottom.

Wallace’s Major Claims

On the finish of Wallace’s video, he mentions a number of main claims with out offering any credible proof. For instance, one in every of his claims says of Biden, “We do not even know if he is nonetheless alive.” Wallace narrates as follows:

That is the previous CIA chief of disguise. She is revealing every thing as Joe Biden will not be going to be the person on the talk stage. He’s nowhere close to able to that. With the age, with all the [inaudible], with all the issues, Joe Biden could not even exist anymore. We do not even know if he is nonetheless alive. That proper there may be extraordinarily scary, because the individuals controlling our authorities should not solely operating issues into the bottom, they’re making billions of {dollars} doing it. All of it is managed. All of it’s a part of this huge plan that they are operating to attempt to enslave all of us. It’s extremely scary and I actually hope individuals begin to get up earlier than it is too late. 

Throughout a lot of this ending narration, Wallace’s video continues to indicate clips from @thetruthworldorder’s Instagram video that includes Mendez. On the 2:11 mark in Wallace’s video, a clip of Biden talking earlier than Congress precedes one other clip of an individual apparently considerably resembling Biden standing in entrance of a inexperienced display. This comparability falsely implies one in every of Biden’s previous speeches earlier than Congress featured him recorded at a unique location in entrance of a inexperienced display.

Except for the size of secrecy involving a whole lot of individuals within the Home chamber who would want to stay tight-lipped concerning the truth Biden didn’t attend his personal speech, together with the technological challenges of making certain a green-screened “physique double” for Biden remained completely positioned on the lectern, we additionally famous the actual fact the 2 clips function completely different neckties in numerous colours and mismatching lapel pins. The supply of the green-screen footage was unclear, as once more, Wallace supplied no sources for any of the clips or info in his video.

Asking for Proof

In our direct message to Wallace, we requested what credible proof he has to substantiate his claims. We requested whether or not he personally believes Biden will not seem on the talk stage, has a “physique double,” “could not even exist anymore” and whether or not the federal government intends to attempt to “enslave all of us,” as he claimed in his video. We additionally requested him whether or not he merely made up these rumors to earn a living from Rumble’s monetization function, all primarily based on purposely deceptive his personal followers.

Moreover, we contacted a publicist for Mendez by e mail. We knowledgeable the publicist of Wallace’s posts and video and requested if Mendez is out there to touch upon the claims or launch a press release about her inclusion within the clip. We additionally requested whether or not anybody had notified Mendez she would function within the video.

We’ll replace this story if we obtain any additional particulars.

For additional studying, we beforehand reported about rumors claiming the supposed existence of “physique doubles” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others. We additionally beforehand twice reported tales a few purported Biden “physique double.”

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