Republicans Post Misleading Clip Attacking Biden At D-Day Memorial — Here’s What Really Happened
An official Republican account posted a misleading clip featuring a deceptive edit to attack President Joe Biden as he commemorated D-Day with the last surviving veterans of the attack. The real video tells a different story.
President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and others spoke at an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France that was attended by around 200 surviving veterans of that invasion — men who turned the tide of World War II against Adolf Hitler’s Axis powers.
The Rebublican Party’s official RNC Research X/Twitter account marked the occasion by posting a short clip depicting the president beginning to sit down, with the caption “Awkward” with a cringe emoji:
Awkward 😬 pic.twitter.com/3KNLco85hj
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024
The clip racked up over a million views and was shared by Republicans who suggested the president was “out of it” or trying to “sit in an imaginary chair.”
But the actual video of the event shows that in that same clip, milliseconds later, the president did sit in a very real chair after pausing a few seconds to wait for Secretary Austin’s introduction to be completed.
Following the harrowing chair incident, Secretary Austin delivered a powerful speech about the D-Day veterans who “saved the world” — and continue to achieve “final victory over Hitler” through the testament of their lives.
Then, President Biden took to the podium for a fiery speech about D-Day that called on Americans to remember the lessons of World War II, to protect democracy, and to resist tyranny:
(T)he autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in Ukraine, to see if we let this illegal aggression go unchecked. We cannot let that happen! To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable! Were we to do that. It means we be forgetting what happened here on these hallowed beaches.
Make no mistake. We will not bow down. We will not forget.
Watch above via Pool.
