Crease in Biden’s shirt sparked a conspiracy theory

Prior to the first Presidential debate, a baseless conspiracy theory inundated many Americans. The Trump campaign, Fox News, and a slew of Trump-supporting Facebook pages all fueled speculation that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden might wear a secret earpiece to assist him in his debate against President Trump.
"I thought Biden had somebody in his ear," said one Trump supporter the morning after the first presidential debate. Her belief was shored up, she said, by video she had viewed of Biden supposedly adjusting a wire during the debate.
In fact, the video does not show Biden wearing a wire; it shows a crease briefly forming on Biden's shirt after he reached into his coat to itch his shoulder. But when false evidence emerged to support the baseless earpiece claim, it took off like wildfire.
CNN's Donie O'Sullivan traveled to a Trump rally in Duluth, Minnesota, and asked some of the president's supporters what they thought about the debunked video.

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40 comments

  1. “They shouldn’t be fact checking anything, they should allow people to have their voice”…. We’re in trouble.

    1. @walker jfs Of course it was. Just before he went off screen to the right it DISAPPEARED. Pause the video if you want. It’s a crease. And your webpage shows it’s a crease even clearer.

    2. Fact checking proves/disproves lies…. what part don’t they understand….. ??? oooh wait you need a basic IQ to understand things….

  2. Anyone who says they shouldn’t be a fact checking isn’t a smart person. No matter what side you are on. 😂

  3. CNN dont start acting like you know what a fact is .this is the biggest joke of a so called news service filled with 3 rate journalist .

  4. CNN: “crease in biden’s shirt sparked a conspiracy theory.”
    a four-year russian conspiracy theory that costed millions of dollars to investigate, sparked by nothing – not even a crease in a shirt.

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  5. There are people in the comments saying how “it also appeared in his collar” and “you couldn’t see his ear”. It’s really easy to hide a cord from one’s ear, like really easy, and you wouldn’t run it down a person’s front, and especially to their wrist collar. (As some people thought for some reason?) Unless he was trying to make it really obvious he had one by running wire in all weird parts of his clothing, I seriously doubt he had an earpiece on. Sometimes common sense isn’t very common.

  6. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time as when that woman said “they shouldn’t be fact checking anything, they should allow people to have a voice”

    1. @Jack there’s video editing experts, wire experts, earpiece experts. a fact checker can reach out to experts in a particular field and get the facts.

  7. “they shouldnt fact check anything they should let us have a voice” why so you can continue to live in a fantasy world?

  8. If it was a crease it’s funny how once it was noticed Biden magically knew and tucked it in. Also he clearly had a flesh colored plug in his right ear.

  9. Unrelated but, I keep wondering what it feels like for The Sandman kid to have the highest W2 this year at CNN.

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