In mid-June 2023, the Russian-language segment of the Network circulated a video in which the 46th President of the United States makes a rather unexpected statement. We have verified the authenticity of this footage.
In the 19-second video you can see a fragment of Joe Biden's speech - judging by the posters, it took place as part of his re-election campaigns. The voice-over translation of his words is as follows: “I am proud to be the most pro-Russian president in American history. I promised you that I would do so. But what I’m really proud of, what I’m really proud of, is that I was re-elected as the most pro-Russian president in history...”
With comments in the spirit of “Biden is broken,” this fragment went around many social networks - Twitter, Facebook, "VKontakte", YouTube. The news was especially widespread on Telegram - the video was shared, in particular, in the channels “Observer"(237,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Truthfulness"(216,000), "Putin on Telegram"(216,000), "Uncle Slava" (169,000), "Bullet"(150,000), "Scott Ritter on Telegram" (143,000) and "Special Operation Z"(78,000).
April 25, 2023 Joe Biden is officially announced about nominating his candidacy for the presidential elections in 2024. An important role in this campaign is played by interaction with American trade unions - in the past, Biden’s political activity in this direction was even brought His nickname is Union Joe.
Biden's previous presidential campaign started in the City of Steel - Pittsburgh. This time, the first large-scale meeting with potential voters took place on June 17 in Philadelphia, on event, organized by the AFL-CIO. This federation of 60 trade unions, which unites 12.5 million workers, supported the candidacy of the incumbent head of state and Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 elections.
Transcript Biden's speech in Philadelphia is posted on the White House website, and video recording can be seen on the official AFL-CIO YouTube channel. As follows from them, the entire speech of the current president was devoted exclusively to American workers and the country's economy - he did not say anything about Russia or other foreign policy topics.
During his speech, Biden stated (10:45): “As you know, there are many politicians in this country who cannot pronounce the word “union.” But you know I'm not one of them. And I am proud to say this word. I am proud to be the most pro-union president in American history. I promised you that I would be. But what I'm really proud of is that I'm going to be re-elected as the most union president in history." The politician also spoke about his desire to become the most pro-union president in American history. previous years.
If you compare two videos—the union video and the one that spread across social networks—you can be convinced that this is the same episode of Biden’s speech in Philadelphia. However, the author of the viral video translated the word pro-union into Russian not as “pro-trade union”, but as “pro-Russian”, which is completely incorrect and cannot be a simple accident - after all, the word union is not at all similar to Russian. There are also some grammatical errors (for example, the translation of the English pronoun you as “you”, although the context requires “you”).
Note that the reaction of the authors of the video was quite quick - Biden’s speech ended on June 17 at 21:11 Moscow time, and the video with Russian dubbing appeared already at 21:39 on the Telegram channel “Rupost" In another pro-Kremlin channel, “Putin on Telegram", the same video was posted at 22:00, but metadata indicates that it was uploaded to Telegram back in 21:38:58, 22 seconds earlier than the video from "Ruposta" The two video clips differ only in the watermark and appear to come from a common source - perhaps not even open source. At least these are the two earliest known "Verified" cases of a video with this voiceover being uploaded to Telegram.
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