So it came as no real surprise on Monday when the Daily Beast broke the story (link here) that Fox News has begun pushing the unfounded claim that Joe Biden has health problems. This is because Biden may be the Democratic nominee for 2020 to challenge Trump, and current reliable polls uniformly show him defeating the President if the election was held today.
Fox and Trump -- and Russian-funded trolls and bots -- tried this same tactic with Hillary Clinton in 2016. These false claims included that she had a brain tumor, Parkinson's, cancer, you name it.
One need only look at a current picture of Biden and see he's obviously far healthier than the clinically obese Trump. In contrast, while Clinton was generally in good health, she did have a few scares, like fainting on a hot day when she had pneumonia and tumbling down steps. Biden, however, is not one to do that and looks lean and strong and robust.
There's no way of knowing if Trump has anything to do with inspiring the Fox personnel to conduct this smear campaign. But you can be assured that once the campaign is in full swing, he'll likely join in repeating this lie in various permutations.
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