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Andy Nguyen
By Andy Nguyen April 27, 2023

Those are no actors. They’re President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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  • President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are alive and well. They were not executed and replaced with imposters.

President Joe Biden launched his reelection campaign April 25, but a Facebook video shared the day before would have people believe the man leading the U.S. for the last two years is an impostor.

"There is no Biden presidency," the April 24 video says. "The real Biden was executed for his crimes long ago along with Clinton." 

The video claims Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were replaced with a rotating stable of actors, some of whom wear masks when out in public as the politicians.

"That's why Biden keeps referring to himself as the 'mask president,'" the video says.  

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The video provides no evidence to back its claims, but it does mention debunked QAnon conspiracy theories and the false claim the 2020 election was stolen.

Biden is clearly alive. On April 26, he hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his first lady Kim Keon Hee at a state dinner. On April 27, he appeared on the White House lawn for a public Take Our Kids To Work Day event.

Clinton was widely photographed with her husband, former-President Bill Clinton during an April 17 visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of violent conflict there.

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Those are no actors. They’re President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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