COME ON! PolitiFact Claims Biden’s Invisible Handshake Was ‘Gesturing at the Audience’

PolitiFact pretends its purpose isn’t to verify facts but rather to remove embarrassing video clips from Harris and Biden. The PolitiFact team cries False over a poor Harris performance during a Europe press conference last month. Now, they’re ruling it’s False to say Biden “turned around and shook hands with thin air” after a speech in North Carolina on April 14.

He was not trying to make contact with an inexistent person. Is it not common for everyone to point with all five of their fingers?

The post was flagged by Facebook as a false news/misinformation alert. Now, Facebook posts on Biden’s “handshake” or “looking confused” now have the warning. 

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This information may mislead, according to independent fact-checkers.

The “independent fact-checkers” part is false. 

PolitiFact’s Gabrielle Settles claimed “Biden gestured towards his audience and not with thin air.The main Twitter account RT-ed her tweet: 

After @POTUS“April 14th speech at @ncatsuaggiesUsers on social media spread the myth that he tried to “shake hands with thin water” before “wandered and looked confused.” Different angles show that claim is false— he was actually gesturing at the audience. https://t.co/COtphJVEus pic.twitter.com/MRm6On7vjE

— Gabrielle Settles (@GPSettles) April 19, 2022

This is why mind-reading is involved — I’m pointing! “Come on man!” — a “fact check”? Settles claimed that the International Business Times had also found flaws in Biden’s comedy and stated, “The Biden gestures to the people in the audience have been misinterpreted to make it appear that he is trying to shake hands with Air.” This claim is false, according to us.

PolitiFact didn’t fact-check anything Biden said, again. They could have seen the Fox comedy. Gutfeld! they would quickly catch a clip of Biden falsely claiming “For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.”

Snopes.com actually evaluated the Biden statement and determined that it was not a mixture. Biden earned more than $910,000 in university compensation from 2017-2021. However, he didn’t teach classes. His public appearances were “about a dozen.” He was given the title — no joke — “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.” 

For “round a dozen appearances,” it was almost a million dollars. Gutfeld laughed and said that Hunter “definitely learned from the greatest.”