Fact Check: Hallie Biden Did NOT Write On X That Trump Won The 2020 Election -- Post Is From Suspended Account That Impersonated Her

Fake Account

Did Hallie Biden, the widow of the president's son Beau Biden, post on X in 2024 that Trump won the 2020 election? No, that's not true: The post originally appeared on an account impersonating her. That account was already suspended in 2022 but screenshots of it occasionally resurface.

The claim reappeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook on March 27, 2024. It contained what seemed to be a recent screenshot of two other posts from X, formerly known as Twitter. The top one stated:

So on election night when I knew

something was very wrong Jill Biden was

on the phone yelling at state legislators

and the people who tabulate the votes to

stop the count. Because there was a deal

worked out: if Trump got too far ahead,

stop the count to rush in fake ballots.

President Trump won that election and

my entire family knows it.

This is what it looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Thu Mar 28 14:31:46 2024 UTC)

The Facebook post did not indicate dates for the two supposed tweets, leaving the implication that they were recent. Not only are the two tweets fake, but they're nearly 2 years old at the time of writing.

The screenshot shared on Facebook captured the two fake posts from a now-suspended account on X (archived here). Both were published in August 2022, as seen in a screenshot of an archived version of the account saved that month (scroll down to find this section):

(Source: Archive Today screenshot taken on Thu Mar 28 17:02:43 2024 UTC)

Lead Stories wrote about the fake Hallie Biden Twitter account on August 20, 2022, with a story headlined: Fact Check: @HallieBiden Is NOT A Real Account Of Biden's Daughter-In-Law.

In September 2022, a representative of the Beau Biden Foundation (archived here), whose board includes (archived here) Hallie Biden, told AFP Fact Check (archived here):

Mrs. Hallie Biden does not have a Twitter account... Any account bearing her name is fraudulent.

Lead Stories reached out for additional comments to the Beau Biden Foundation. If we receive a response, this article will be updated as appropriate.

Other Lead Stories fact checks about politics can be found here.