Does footage exist that shows President Joe Biden possibly naked with a girl? No, that's not true: The image shown in the social media post making that claim is not of Biden. Instead, it is a screenshot from a video that has appeared on pornographic websites under various titles since at least 2015.
The claim appeared in a post on X, formerly Twitter, by VAL THOR on May 14, 2024, titled "Breaking News." The post's caption said:
ALERT🚨TUCKER RELEASED NEW TAPES FROM J.EP$TEIN DATABASE!
J.BIDEN IS HAVING A GOOD TIME WITH LITTLE GIRL.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Thu May 16 15:27:33 2024 UTC)
The post
The image in the social media post is a cropped screenshot that Lead Stories found linked to a video on multiple porn sites under various titles, some of which were posted online as early as 2015. Clicking this link takes readers to a Google Lens search with explicit images and adult material. A search on TinEye, another reverse image website, produced similar results, linking the image from the post on X to porn videos.
Lead Stories stacked two images below to show where the alleged image of Biden originally came from. The first picture comes from the post on X that's the subject of this fact check. The second photo shows a screenshot from one of the videos, which includes the same scene the image was cropped from:
(Source: X and ThisVid screenshots taken on Thu May 16 2024 UTC)
While the grainy images make it difficult to tell who the man is precisely, clarity comes from the video itself. Nearly 40 seconds into a video on the ThisVid website, the man in question looks at the camera, clearly showing he's not Biden. The following link (archived here) includes explicit images and adult material.
The image appears below:
(Source: ThisVid screenshot taken on Thu May 16 18:37:52 2024 UTC)
Tucker Carlson
Lead Stories did a search using keywords on Google News, visible here, which found no credible documents or reporting as of May 16, 2024, to corroborate the claim in the post that conservative commentator Tucker Carlson released the video.
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At the time this was written, the claim had previously been reviewed by multiple fact-checking organizations, including PolitiFact in 2022 and Snopes in 2022.
Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Joe Biden can be found here.
