Karine Jean-Pierre Fires Back At Videos Edited To Make Biden Appear ‘Frail Or Mentally Confused’

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During a White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and videos of Biden appearing to freeze up or be confused.

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00:00Two questions. Just one real quick on the top. Does President Biden plan to meet with Netanyahu

00:05when he comes for his joint summit? I don't have anything to share on the President's schedule.

00:10As it relates to the Prime Minister visit, obviously that's something,

00:13since Congress invited the Prime Minister, that's something that they can speak to. Don't have

00:17anything to say at this time. It's more than a month away. I just don't have anything to share

00:22on the President's schedule. Secondly, there seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been

00:27edited to make the President appear especially frail or mentally confused. I'm wondering if

00:34the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're

00:38seeing more of. Yeah, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's

00:43exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith. And some of your news

00:50organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing critics of the President

00:57have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing

01:03misinformation, disinformation. And so we see this, and this is something coming from your part

01:10of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation. And I'll quote the Washington

01:16Post where they wrote about this, and they said how Republican used misleading videos to attack

01:21Biden in a 24-hour period. And to their credit, we have a conservative Washington examiner did

01:29call them out as well, calling out the New York Post. Ironically, several recent cheap fakes

01:35actually attacked the President for thanking troops, for thanking troops. That is what they're

01:40attacking the President for. Both in Normandy this happened, and again in Italy. And I think that it

01:47tells you everything that we need to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.

01:55And instead of talking about the President's performance in office, and what I mean by that

02:00is his legislative wins, what he's been able to do for the American people across the country,

02:05we're seeing these deep fakes, these manipulated videos. And it is again done in bad faith.

Karine Jean-Pierre Fires Back At Videos Edited To Make Biden Appear ‘Frail Or Mentally Confused’

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