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Disinfo: Biden refused to condemn street violence because he fears losing electoral weight

Summary

Some Democratic governors didn’t condemn the violence in the streets of their states, an issue about which Joe Biden refused to commit in any way because he may lose some electoral weight. When he was asked if the supported Black Lives Matter, he didn’t answer.

Disproof

The claims about Joe Biden are false. He has expressed support for protests for racial justice in the US but made a clear distinction between peaceful protests and riots, and explicitly condemned violence. In August 2020, the Democratic Convention in which Biden was confirmed as the party’s presidential candidate fully embraced the Black Lives Matter movement, with prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama uttering those exact words. Biden has talked in several occasions about Black Lives Matter, both to back some of its demands and to reject others.

Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation against US presidential candidate Joe Biden, part of what US authorities, including FBI director Christopher Wray and the Department of Homeland Security, consider a wider campaign of interference in the 2020 election. See other examples in our database, such as claims that Joe Biden is preparing a coup, and his militants are setting the US on fire; that he is the actual president of Ukraine, where he has been personally profiteering; that he was behind 2019 protests in Georgia; that he admitted his personal involvement in preventing Putin from participating in the presidential race; or that his son pushed for war in eastern Ukraine to clear the territory for fracking.

This disinformation message appeared in the same article as the claim that “Trump faced several coup attempts, including the impeachment and the fraud of Russian collusion.”

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RT Spanish [from 17:55 to 18:40] (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 214
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 30/09/2020
  • Language/target audience: Spanish, Castilian
  • Country: US
  • Keywords: US racial justice protests, Joe Biden

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