{"id":1166048,"date":"2021-12-28T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166048"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:52:11","slug":"fact-check-did-joe-biden-fake-a-recent-visit-to-a-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-joe-biden-fake-a-recent-visit-to-a-childrens-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Joe Biden Fake A Recent Visit To A Children\u2019s Hospital?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-joe-biden-fake-a-recent-visit-to-a-childrens-hospital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1820941415\/posts\/10216512682009154\/?d=n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims President Joe Biden recently faked a visit to a children\u2019s hospital in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s visit to the pediatric hospital was not faked. The visit took place at the hospital\u2019s Seacrest Studios, an interactive area that allows the children to learn about various media formats.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited the Children\u2019s National Hospital in D.C. on Christmas Eve, according to the president\u2019s public schedule available on <a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/biden\/topic\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factba.se<\/a>. Since then, Facebook users have been sharing a screen grab showing the Bidens with the words \u201cSeacrest Studios\u201d circled in red, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1820941415\/posts\/10216512682009154\/?d=n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleging<\/a> the president faked the visit to the children\u2019s hospital using a movie set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything Biden says or does is a lie,\u201d reads one such Facebook post. \u201cOn Christmas Eve, the Sock Puppet and his fake doctor wife pretended to visit a \u2018children\u2019s hospital.\u2019 What it was instead was a film studio \u2013 Seacrest Studios \u2013 mocked up to sort of look like a children\u2019s hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim that Joe and Jill Biden faked their Christmas Eve visit to Children\u2019s National Hospital is baseless. The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Biden\/d6cba126bb9d4abf98142e5eff5634e7\/117\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has published<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Biden\/83f2c0dd4ba8407096e601635d7f98e8\/124\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos<\/a> from the visit of Biden and his wife interacting with patients at the hospital. There is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WATdgyvmzcg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> taken by Reuters that depicts the couple speaking to and reading with the pediatric patients.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The \u201cSeacrest Studios\u201d sign visible in the screen grab being shared on Facebook is not an indication of the event being faked. Children\u2019s National Hospital has had a Seacrest Studios in its atrium since 2015, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/childrensnational.org\/visit\/resources-for-families\/child-life-and-integrative-care-services\/seacrest-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hospital\u2019s website<\/a>. The Ryan Seacrest Foundation established it and other such studios in various pediatric hospitals, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryanseacrestfoundation.org\/our-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nonprofit\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablished by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanseacrestfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Seacrest Foundation<\/a> in 2015, our state-of-the-art facility gives kids an interactive space to explore radio, television and social media, share their on-air talents and participate in entertaining programs that are broadcast directly to patient rooms,\u201d Children\u2019s National Hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/childrensnational.org\/visit\/resources-for-families\/child-life-and-integrative-care-services\/seacrest-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> on its website. \u201cOur studio is the ultimate playroom, providing fun games, arts and crafts and other creative outlets that contribute to the healing process for children and families dealing with illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diana Troese, the manager of public relations at Children\u2019s National Hospital, also confirmed to Check Your Fact that Joe Biden\u2019s visit occurred. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/02\/fact-check-image-joe-biden-jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Joe Biden With Jeffrey Epstein?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeacrest Studios is located in the main atrium of Children\u2019s National Hospital, which is where the visit occurred,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is a radio station for our patients, established as part of the Ryan Seacrest Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims President Joe Biden recently faked a visit to a children\u2019s hospital in Washington, D.C.Verdict: False The president\u2019s visit to the pediatric hospital was not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}