President Donald Trump reshared a post falsely saying former President Joe Biden was “executed in 2020,” among other incorrect allegations.
The false claims, made by another user on Truth Social and reposted by Trump on May 31, also included that “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” have since substituted for the ex-commander-in-chief.
Biden was not executed, and he is still alive today. He served four years in the White House from 2021 to 2025. He sought a second term as president before ending his campaign last summer following a bombshell debate against Trump.
In May, Biden shared he was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had spread to his bones. The former president has said he’s “optimistic” about a treatment plan for the disease.
“The expectation is we’re going to be able to beat this,” Biden told reporters at an event in his home state of Delaware.
Biden has also not been cloned, as the original Truth Social post suggested. USA TODAY has reached out to the White House for more information about Trump’s repost.
The president’s comments come after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called for former first lady Jill Biden to speak up about her husband’s alleged mental decline, saying she conspired to keep her husband’s health from the American people.
Trump has also previously targeted prior presidents with false theories. For years leading up to his first White House term, Trump promoted baseless claims that former President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.
The 45th and now 47th president publicly admitted for the first time that Obama was born in America two months before the 2016 election, in which he defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Contributing: Sarah D. Wire
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Donald Trump boosts false claim that Joe Biden was ‘executed in 2020’
