Does a video show Sen. John Kennedy "exposing" Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, in Congress? No, that's not true: The video in a post making the claim shows an unrelated clip of Kennedy questioning voting rights activist Stacey Abrams of Georgia in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The post has a clickbait headline apparently to draw attention to a Facebook page.
The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on September 13, 2022 under the title "We Need To Stop Him, Or America Will ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐!- John Kennedy ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Hunter Biden ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ." The video opened with Sen. Cory Booker speaking:
I think I'm going to call on Senator Kennedy instead. Senator Kennedy.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Sept 14 16:35:57 2022 UTC)
The footage shows Kennedy questioning Stacey Abrams on voting rights in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on April 20, 2021. During the seven-minute, 17-second video of his remarks, Kennedy never mentions Hunter Biden or says anything about "exposing" him.
At the time of writing, a search of Google News produced no stories about "John Kennedy exposing Hunter Biden in congress."
This is not the first time Lead Stories has reported on political clickbait headlines in social media posts. Similar fact checks can be found here, here, and here.
