‘Cheap Fakes’: White House Slams Viral Biden Age Videos, Credits Conservative Outlet For Calling Them Out

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fumed at the viral clips circulating social media that are often selectively edited to make President Joe Biden look senile, dubbing them “cheap fakes.”

“There seems to be a sort of a rash of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused. I’m wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we’re seeing more,” asked a White House reporter during Monday’s briefing.

“Yeah. We, and I think you all have called this the ‘cheap fakes video,’ and that’s exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video,” Jean-Pierre began, quoting from a Washington Post headline from last week.

“They are done in bad faith. And, some of your news organizations, have, have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing, the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem, because the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation,” she continued, adding:

And so we see this and this is something coming from from your, your part of the world calling them cheap fakes and misinformation. And, I’ll quote The Washington Post, where they wrote they wrote about this and they said how Republicans use misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24 hour period. And to their credit, we have a conservative Washington Examiner, did call them out as well, calling out the New York Post.

Ironically, several recent cheap fakes actually attack the president for thanking troops, for thanking troops. That is what they’re attacking the president for, both in Normandy. This happened and again in Italy. And, I think that it tells you everything that we need to know about how, how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here. And, instead of talking about the president’s performance in office. And what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country. We’re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos, and it is, again, done in bad faith.

The GOP account that has been pushing many of the clips, ‘RNC Research,” reacted to Jean-Pierre’s comments, posting, “Karine Jean-Pierre is BIG MAD that we distribute unfiltered, unedited, publicly available clips of Biden in public. (We’ll do more).”

Watch the clip above.