Is it true that Biden was “lost” at the Summer Summit?

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On June 13, 2024, news began to disperse on the Internet that the US president at a meeting of G7 leaders lost orientation in space and began to talk with invisible. We decided to check what really happened.

They told about the alleged embarrassment of Biden "Russian newspaper","Moscow 24","News", As well as other media and information Portals. The news spread widely on social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook) and especially in Telegram, where channels reported the incident "Sanya in Florida"(276,000 views at the time of writing this analysis)"Putin in Telegram"(185,000),"Uncle Glory"(159 000), Nexta Live (156 000), Voblya (120,000) and others. Most posts are accompanied by rollers lasting about 30 seconds. The footage shows that Biden, standing in the company of the leaders of the countries of the “big seven”, is looking in the same direction as his colleagues, and then completely separates from the group. After that, the Prime Minister of Italy and the mistress of the International Forum George Melony entangles him, returning to the rest for a group photo.

June 13, 2024 in Italy Open Summit of the leaders of the countries "Big Seven"(G7) - an informal club of the seven largest developed economies in the world. It includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the USA. One of the events in the forum program was Show of paratrooperswho demonstrated accurate landing on the site in front of high -ranking guests. Representatives of the parachute group carried the flags of the summit, countries - participants G7 and the European Union.

In the video, which diverged in social networks, at first glance it seems that Biden really goes in an incomprehensible direction, nowhere. The video scattered not only on the Russian -speaking, but also on the English -language segment of the Internet - many tabloids, such as American, wrote about the embarrassment of the American leader. New York Post and Canadian Toronto Sun. Donald Trump, a competitor of Biden in the presidential election, competed to the news and election headquarters, responded to the news. In the official one statement It says: “From Italy to the UK and New York, millions of people around the world woke up from the headlines about the cognitive decline of Joe Biden, which was completely demonstrated at the G7 summit.” He spoke on this score himself Trump - In an even more stringent formulation: “We have a president who has no idea what the hell is happening. Look at him yesterday, look at him the day before yesterday in Europe, he has no idea where he is, damn. ”

The viral video is cut out of broadcastswhich was conducted by the official YouTube channel of the summit. On a more general plan in 30 seconds. to the passage dispersed along social networks You can seeThat there are much more people on the site than it might seem to be a carved fragment. The video was hit by a man sitting on his knees next to Bayden and collecting a flag in a backpack, but the American leader does not turn to him, but to someone who is behind him. In broadcast in 5 sec. The viral fragment shows that this is a parachutist, landing a little earlier. It was Biden who shows the thumb up, while the rest of the politicians focused on the last mundane paratrooper. Therefore, to say that the US president, turning to someone outside the frame, says with invisibles, is unfounded.

The official representative of the White House Andrew Bates reacted The publication of the New York Post is: “Murdok’s publications are so desperately trying to distract attention from Biden’s track record that they are simply lying. Here they use an artificially narrow frame to hide from the viewer that he had just observed a demonstration of parachute jumps. He congratulates one of the paratroopers and shows the thumb up. ”

The publications ridicuating Biden became so viral that even the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was present at the summit, commented on the situation. In his own statement He noted that Biden, having waited for the landing of the paratroopers, "just came up to talk with each of them personally."

Opponents of the 81-year-old President of the United States in their criticism often abut that Biden is too old for their position. Within the framework of this narrative, a policy is attributed to absurd statements, tearing the words from the context, Interpret His jokes are like serious statements, Edit Photos and video. Publications about Biden's communication with invisible interlocutors too Not an innovation. "Checked" already Disassembled A few similar ones messages, and all of them turned out to be fakes - in each case there were very real people behind the scenes, who were visible in the video shot from a different angle.

Thus, the fragment that spread in social networks does not give a complete picture of what was happening on the site, where paratroopers landed, and because of this, the audience could have a false impression that Bayden was turning into the void. However, literally in 5 seconds. Prior to the start of the viral passage in the initial broadcast, it can be seen that on the side where Baiden turned, a paratrooper landed earlier is sitting - he simply does not fall into the frame in the scattering videos. It was to him that the American leader addressed him.

Correction 24/06/24: Changes are made to the analysis. It is clarified that in the viral video, Biden does not turn to a person in the right side of the video, but to the paratrooper who is behind the frame, but is visible in a more general plan five seconds before the moment from which the fragment cut out of the broadcast begins. The initial version of the text can be found by link.

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