Misleading: Trump Calls for Biden's Assassination

The Misbar team has determined that this claim is misleading. The statement in question proposed by The Lincoln Project quoted Trump as saying, “That’s why they’re talking about the, that’s why they talk about the 25th Amendment, right? Three weeks. Three weeks in, Joe’s shot, ‘Let’s go Kamala, you ready?’ Most liberal person in the Senate. She makes Bernie Sanders look like a serious conservative.”

Several websites, such as Tehran Times, Second Nexus, Hill Reporter, and Political Flare posted articles that exaggerated Trump’s statement and took it out of context. Earlier in Trump’s speech, the President spoke about Joe Biden’s mental state, saying: “He came out yesterday and he made a speech, and then they had to rip him off the stage because he lost it because he’s gone.”

When considered in context with the rest of Trump’s speech, it could be argued that Trump’s statement saying, “Three weeks in, Joe’s shot” is also referring to his mental state and saying that the nominee is not fit to hold office.

In fact, in August 2020, the Trump campaign posted a video to Facebook with the title “Let’s face it, Joe is shot,” which showed an interview he gave to Fox News, in which he said: “Joe is shot. Let’s face it, Joe is shot. Now maybe people are going to feel sorry for him…but our country is too important for that. You’re dealing with people that are very sharp, you’re dealing with world-class chess players in the leaders of these countries…you can’t have a guy that’s shot, you can’t have a guy that doesn’t know where he is, you can’t have a guy that’s afraid to leave his basement because he can’t speak any longer.”

The clip referenced highlights Trump’s usage of the word “shot” and indicates that Trump may have been referring to Biden’s mental state when he said “Joe’s shot.”