{"id":2269998,"date":"2024-06-17T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-complains-of-biden-cheap-fakes\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:13:59","slug":"white-house-complains-of-biden-cheap-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-complains-of-biden-cheap-fakes\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Criticizes &#8216;Cheap Fakes&#8217; of Biden"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fwhite-house-complains-of-biden-cheap-fakes%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=2269998&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--><p>The\u2063 White House has labeled viral clips portraying President Joe Biden as\u200d frail and confused as &#8220;cheap fakes.&#8221; This response came from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-deploys-additional-firepower-to-the-middle-east-to-deter-iran\/\" title=\"Pentagon boosts firepower in Middle East to deter Iran.\">press\u2062 briefing<\/a>, where she criticized these videos for being created in bad \u200bfaith and intended to mislead. Jean-Pierre pointed out that many credible \u200bnews organizations had \u200cdismissed\u200b these clips as misinformation, often\u200b propagated \u2062by right-wing\u2062 critics \u2064who have\u2062 previously been caught spreading misinformation. These statements were \u200bmade in response \u200cto\u2064 increasing scrutiny over Biden&#8217;s fitness and\u200b mental acuity as he seeks re-election at the age of 81.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Viral clips showing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> in situations in which he looks to be frail or confused are being dismissed as \u201ccheap fakes\u201d by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/karine-jean-pierre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> sought to discredit the videos, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-gay-activist-group-gave-free-bus-tickets-to-minorities-and-trans-people-it-likely-violated-civil-rights-law\/\" title=\"A Gay Activist Group Gave Free Bus Tickets to Minorities and Trans People. It Likely Violated Civil Rights Law.\">proliferated amid concerns<\/a> about 81-year-old Biden\u2019s mental acuity and physical fitness as he runs for a second term, when a reporter pressed her to address them during the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hRkaQElaZ5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press briefing<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that\u2019s exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video,\u201d Jean-Pierre said from behind the podium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORTER: &#8220;There seems to be a rash of videos that have been edited to make the President appear especially frail or mentally confused\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uXJ2sgxMiE\">pic.twitter.com\/uXJ2sgxMiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1802781390120865966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey are done in bad faith,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre went on, \u201cAnd so we see this, and this is something coming from your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One recent video showed Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-mocked-for-wandering-away-from-world-leaders-during-photoshoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wandering away<\/a> from other G-7 leaders watching skydivers descend during a photo op in Italy. Another from over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-apologizes-for-violating-her-own-indoor-dining-restrictions\/\" title=\"Whitmer Apologizes For Violating Her Own Indoor Dining Restrictions\">weekend showed<\/a> former President Barack Obama grabbing onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/obama-grabs-bidens-hand-leads-him-off-stage-at-hollywood-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> at a fundraiser in Los Angeles and walking with him off the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Such clips are often posted to X and the media coverage they get have prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/14\/cheapfake-biden-videos-enrapture-right-wing-media-deeply-mislead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-checker criticism<\/a> and denials from the White House and Biden\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre called the Italy clip along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-raises-eyebrows-at-d-day-ceremony-gets-escorted-away-as-macron-greets-veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another from Normandy<\/a> \u201ccheap fakes\u201d that \u201cactually attack the president for thanking troops.\u201d What happened at the fundraiser, she added, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1802780295373918359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was a display<\/a> of how Biden and Obama \u201care friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An X account for the Republican National Committee, which often posts the unflattering clips of Biden that go viral, fired back at the White House press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKarine Jean-Pierre is BIG MAD that we distribute unfiltered, unedited, publicly available clips of Biden in public. (We\u2019ll do more),\u201d the account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1802775343582925191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cJean-Pierre has a conniption over raw footage of Biden wandering around in public,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1802780877123936611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in another post. \u201cThis level of coping and seething hasn\u2019t been seen in YEARS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has labeled viral clips depicting President Joe Biden as frail or confused as &#8220;cheap fakes.&#8221; Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed these videos, which have spread due to concerns about Biden&#8217;s mental and physical fitness as the 81-year-old campaigns for a second term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2269999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2158011085-scaled-e1718657907929.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2158011085-scaled-e1718657907929.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269998","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}