FACT CHECK: Viral Video Claims To Show Joe Biden Looking At Dementia Books
A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows former Vice President Joe Biden perusing books about dementia.
âI have to applaud Joe Biden, atleast (sic) heâs looking at the right books,â reads the caption.
Verdict: False
The sign has been superimposed into the video. It actually shows Biden shopping in November 2012 for childrenâs books for a reading program started by his wife.
Fact Check:
A Facebook user posted a video on March 13 allegedly showing Biden looking at books in the âBrain Exercises for Dementiaâ section. (RELATED: Did Joe Biden Say âPeople Who Have Never Died Before Are Now Dying From Corona Virusâ?)
Similar videos have been circulating on other social media platforms: @conservativehypehouse, who posted it on TikTok, said âYes, this is Joe Biden looking at books about dimentia (sic),â while YouTube user Mavakaga noted heâd been âcaughtâ doing so.
But the claim in all of these posts doesnât hold up. The sign with the words âBrain Exercises for Dementiaâ had been superimposed into a video of Biden doing holiday shopped at a Costco in November 2012. The original video, which comes from CBS News, has no sign of any kind in the segment where Biden is perusing through childrenâs books.
C-SPAN also covered Bidenâs appearance at the grand opening of that Costco. In that video, Biden tells someone who is off-screen that he is âbuying a bunch of books for the Book Buddies back in Delaware.â Book Buddies, a program that provides books to low-income children, was started by his wife Jill, according to the Los Angeles Times.