A video from a huge Hollywood fundraiser for the campaign of President Joe Biden on Saturday went viral on Sunday, principally amongst those on the suitable side of the aisle who claimed it confirmed Biden requiring the steerage of former president Barack Obama to be able to depart the stage.

The fundraiser with big cash LA donors on Saturday brought in over $30 million, in keeping with the marketing campaign, and featured stars similar to George Clooney and Barbara Streisand. The event was once hosted by way of late evening host Jimmy Kimmel, who spent about 40 minutes conversing with Biden and Obama on stage, at the end of which, as the presidents were leaving the stage, cameras confirmed Obama take Biden’s arm sooner than they walked off stage together.

The New York Publish wrote about the clip below the headline “Biden appears to freeze up, must be led off stage with the aid of Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser.” And on X (previously Twitter) the clip went viral, with lots of big names weighing in, to include speak host Piers Morgan, who referred to as it “embarrassing.”

In a observation to Mediaite, Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates blasted the “ethical standards” of “Rupert Murdoch’s unhappy little tremendous pac, the New York Publish“:

Fresh off being truth checked through as a minimum 6 mainstream news firms for mendacity about President Biden with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch’s sad little tremendous pac, the New York Put up, is back to disrespecting it’s readers and itself once once more by means of pretending the President taking in an applauding crowd for just a few seconds is someway flawed. Their moral requirements might care for a little unfreezing.

On X, Bates additionally retweeted users who objected to the characterizations of the video via the best, a lot of whom integrated or referenced alternate video they claim disputes these characterizations.

LIES again. right Here’s the ending of the fundraiser the day past. p.c.twitter.com/jZWV7AiY4Q

— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress) June sixteen, 2024

Many other users on Sunday had been as an alternative excited by a narrative going viral on the left about former President Donald Trump no longer recalling the name of the doctor who administered his mental fitness test.

Watch the clips above by way of X (previously Twitter).

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