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On April 3, 2023, a Twitter user posted a video of U.S. President Joe Biden and claimed it showed that his team was using former President Donald Trump's hush-money indictment in New York to prevent the former president from taking power again.
"And there it is - he said the quiet part out loud," tweeted @DC_Draino. "Biden all but confirmed that his team is coordinating these Trump indictments to 'stop Trump from taking power again.'"
While the video clip posted by the user is authentically of Biden, the claim was false. The clip was a part of a 54-minute video from Biden's news conference on Nov. 9, 2022, the day after the midterm election results, meaning Biden was not referring to Trump's criminal indictment announced by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on March 30, 2023.
Twitter attached a Community Note to @DC_Draino's tweet saying it was "a digitally altered video created by a meme account called 'I Meme Therefore I Am' that claims to be 'parody at times.'"
The Twitter user then challenged the Community Note. "This video was flagged by @CommunityNotes for being a deep fake but it's a real clip from Biden's presser on 11/9/22," and in doing so, acknowledged Biden's remarks were made months ago, and not after Trump's recent indictment on charges he paid off ex-film star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet before he was elected.
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