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On July 31, 2022, a Reddit user shared a screenshot that purportedly showed a message written by former U.S. President Donald Trump. In the message, Trump supposedly claimed that U.S. President Joe Biden, who had just tested positive for the second time for COVID-19, had been misdiagnosed by his doctors and instead has dementia, and would be moving into a nursing home in Wisconsin. Readers asked us if this was a real message from the former president. Yes, this was a genuine post from Trump that came from his social media platform, Truth Social. However, Trump's claims were entirely unsupported by evidence and clearly fabricated, at least partially as a joke at Biden's expense. Trump's post also contained false information about voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The full message on Truth Social read as follows: On July 30, 2022, the day before Trump's post, The Associated Press reported the following about Biden's health: In sum, yes, the message in the screenshot on Reddit really did come from Trump. However, again, there was no evidence that Biden was misdiagnosed by his doctors and instead has dementia, nor that he would be moving into a nursing home in Wisconsin. The post appeared to be an opportunistic political jab at the current president, along with a rehash of Trump's baseless allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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