In August 2023, the news was widely dispersed on the Internet that the US president fell asleep at a meeting with the fires in Hawaii. We decided to check if this is so.
About the courier that allegedly occurred with an American politician during his visit to Maui, many Russian media reported (for example, “Arguments and facts","News","Moscow 24","Tsargrad" And "Evening Moscow"), Users of social networks (" "VKontakte","Classmates" Twitter) and the platform blog ("Picabu","Zen"). This news was very popular in Telegram: channels were written about it "Live broadcast"(668,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Dear persimmon"(324 000),"Rhymes and Panchi"(171 000),"Bullet"(124,000),"Operation Z"(115,000) and others. Similar posts posted TV presenters in their channels Vladimir Solovyov (278 000) and Ruslan Ostashko (109,000).
Joe Biden I visited Hawaii on August 21, 2023. The US President examined the areas of Maui, which suffered from recent forest fires, checked whether it was the victims of the necessary assistance, and also met with local residents.
It was a fragment from the broadcast of this event that the media and bloggers shared, claiming that the American president allegedly fell asleep during a meeting with the Hawaiians. 32-second passage, apparently, is taken from broadcasts The Hawaii News Now TV channel, the air is available on YouTube. At the mark 3:04:18 Biden coughs, covering his mouth with his hand, and lowers his head down - in such a perspective it is really incomprehensible whether his eyes are open. But after just 12 seconds. He begins to actively nod and raises his head - here it is already clearly visible that the politician is not sleeping at all and his eyes are open. The same can be seen in the video that accompanies the news about the sleeping Biden, but because of low quality it is more difficult to consider whether his eyes are open or closed.
C-Span TV channel was shooting in higher quality and from another angle-in video, posted on their site, it is noticeable that after Biden lowered his head, his eyes remained open (19:20).
Representatives of the White House also denied the statements that the American president allegedly fell asleep during a meeting with the residents of Hawaii. August 22 Congressman-Republican from Tennessee, Andy Ogles wrote In the social network X (formerly Twitter): “Imagine that the President of the United States falls asleep while you describe the consequences of the most deadly fire over the past 100 years. This is absolutely disgusting. Biden must resign immediately. ” For it right away reacted The Deputy Spokesman of the White House and the senior adviser to public relations Andrew Bates: “You really have to“ represent ”this. Because this did not happen. That "absolutely disgusting" is how easy it is for you to lie to your voters. " Bates also attached a link to analyze a factory project Snopes With a refutation of this news.
Fires to Maui, according to some estimates, steel The most destructive over the past 100 years - at least 115 people have died in them, and more than 1000 are missing. At the same time, the catastrophe also became the object of numerous theories of conspiracy and speculation. "Checked" already Disassembled The allegations that spread in the Russian -language segment of the Internet that the fire in Hawaii was caused by Chinese laser weapons or organized by the UN, and not one of these messages was confirmed. Similar publications were checked by our colleagues from Reuters, AFP, Lead Stories and other factskeeping projects.
Biden often becomes a hero of inaccurate publications that make fun of his age and mental health. Among them are reports that supposedly an American politician several times He asked Do not jump invisible peoplethat he is I did not find out and pushed back the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the airport or that he Offered vaccinated from a hurricane. All of them turned out to be either torn out of context, or completely fabricated.
Thus, Joe Biden did not fall asleep at a meeting with the affected fires on Maui, he only lowered his head down for a few seconds-in the video distributed due to the angle and the low quality of the shooting, you could really think that he fell asleep for a few seconds. However, on more clear videos removed from a different angle, it is clear that the American president does not close his eyes at all for a long time, periodically blinking all the time that his head was lowered down.
Photo on the cover: Hawaii News Now
Read on the topic:
- Chinese laser, UN operation or conspiracy of globalists: we analyze posts about the causes of the fire in Hawaii
- AFP. Une Vido Prouvant Que Les Inkends Hawa N'ont Pas Brl d'arbres? Ces Images Anciennes Ont T Price En Californie
- Snopes. A Book Describing the Maui Fires Was Publined Before They Started?
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