A Feb. 26 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims President Joe Biden reversed an effort by President Donald Trump to combat child sex trafficking.
“Trump was the 1st President in U.S. History to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S., and the 1st President to open a White House office to form coalitions with law enforcement to save America’s children,” reads the post. “On his 2nd day in office, Biden rescinded Trump’s Executive Order that helped combat child sex trafficking.”
The post was liked more than 2,000 times in less than two weeks.
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Biden did not rescind Trump’s orders on child sex trafficking. He introduced an updated plan for fighting child trafficking in December 2021. The post is also wrong about Trump being the first president to acknowledge child sex trafficking.
The social media post does not specify what order was supposedly rescinded, but Trump did issue at least two that directly addressed human trafficking. He signed an executive order in 2017, titled “Enforcing Federal Law With Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking," and another in 2020, titled “Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in...
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