A Feb. 6 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims Russian President Vladimir Putin made a remark about American leadership and President Joe Biden during an interview with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.
“BREAKING: President Vladimir Putin confirms to Tucker Carlson that President Biden is not running the United States,” reads the post, which is a screenshot of a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “PUTIN when asked who runs the U.S. ‘The same forces which have always run it. You may change presidents but you do not change those in real power. That is who we have to deal with. Joe Biden is just a facade for this power structure.’”
It received more than 3,500 likes in three days. Other versions of the claim spread widely on Instagram and X.
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No such quotation appears in transcripts of Carlson’s interview with Putin. There is no evidence Putin has referred to Biden as a "facade."
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