Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro Goes All In To Promote Misleading Joe Biden Video
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Thursday shared a deceptive video of President Joe Biden at a D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France, calling his actions “embarrassing.”
But it is the former judge who should be embarrassed. The edited clip was posted by a Trump campaign and RNC-backed X account — it had conservatives mocking Biden over nothing. And that included Pirro in a misguided right-wing attempt to prove that the president is unfit for office.
RNC Research’s clip showed Biden shaking hands with French President Emmanuel Macron and beginning to sit as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is called to be the next speaker. But the video is strategically cut to make it appear as if Biden were trying to sit without a chair. “Awkward,” the caption read with a gritted-teeth emoji.
Awkward 😬 pic.twitter.com/3KNLco85hj
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
Biden critics on social media jumped to cast the video as another sign of his decline, none more so than Pirro.
“THIS is the man representing us. THIS is how we are being perceived as a nation. Our commander-and-chief trying to sit in an imaginary chair on stage in front of the entire world,” Pirro, a panelist on “The Five,” wrote on X in a post that now seems deleted but was screen-captured by Mediaite. “Lights on, but Biden’s not home. Embarrassing is an understatement….THERE IS NO CHAIR‼️‼️”
There was a chair, and Biden used it to sit down when the introduction for Austin was nearly done. Here’s a fuller look:
Republicans are sharing a misleading video edit of President Joe Biden at a D-Day commemoration, suggesting he tried to sit in an imaginary chair. In reality, Biden, wearing a bulletproof vest, was simply waiting for the speech to end.
Full video.pic.twitter.com/NVKZDgoPr7— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) June 6, 2024
The video ruse was so egregious that The Associated Press devoted an entire article to debunking it.
The RNC Research account went after Mediaite for also correctly calling out the video hoax.
Are you guys mad?
Because you guys seem REALLY MAD we post clips of Biden in public — somehow managing to turn the most mundane activity into an exercise in decline. https://t.co/CmE7kGqcFm— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024