The Dispatch
Share this post
Did Joe Biden Not Wear a Mask on a Plane?
thedispatch.com

Did Joe Biden Not Wear a Mask on a Plane?

A viral photograph is from November 2019, before the pandemic.

Alec Dent
Nov 2, 2020
26
8
Share this post
Did Joe Biden Not Wear a Mask on a Plane?
thedispatch.com

A viral tweet from Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence, claimed to show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not wearing a mask while on a plane:

Twitter avatar for @RichardGrenellRichard Grenell @RichardGrenell
Washington, DC phony! @JoeBiden doesn’t wear a mask on a plane - but wears one OUTSIDE!?
Image
Image

November 1st 2020

16,132 Retweets37,584 Likes

The claim was further elevated by conservative commentator Mark Levin:

Twitter avatar for @marklevinshowMark R. Levin @marklevinshow
Biden wears a mask outside but not on a plane. Fraud.

Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell

Washington, DC phony! @JoeBiden doesn’t wear a mask on a plane - but wears one OUTSIDE!? https://t.co/7q0LG09bOq

November 2nd 2020

12,738 Retweets35,442 Likes

Contrary to what Grenell suggested in his tweet, the picture is almost a year old. While it was used in a Vogue article published on October 30, 2020, the article notes that it shows Biden with his traveling national press secretary Remi Yamamoto on a flight to South Carolina in November 2019.

If you have a claim you would like to see us fact check, please send us an email at factcheck@thedispatch.com. If you would like to suggest a correction to this piece or any other Dispatch article, please email corrections@thedispatch.com.

8
Share this post
Did Joe Biden Not Wear a Mask on a Plane?
thedispatch.com
8 Comments

Create your profile

0 subscriptions will be displayed on your profile (edit)

Skip for now

Only Dispatch Members only can comment on this post

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in

Check your email

For your security, we need to re-authenticate you.

Click the link we sent to , or click here to sign in.

Counterpoint
Nov 3, 2020

Just another example of the failure of the Obama / Biden administration. First they didn't leave the Trump administration a vaccine for the non existent virus, and now we find out they didn't wear masks to prevent it from spreading before it existed. Liberals, man!

Expand full comment
ReplyCollapse
Midge
Nov 2, 2020

Argh! How could anyone *not* suspect first thing that a photo of Biden not masking as he says he does is probably from before Covid?

My poor husband likes Ben Shapiro, and the way Shapiro is spinning for Trump right now is about equally ridiculous. Claims like Democrats have no policy for managing Covid except for their blind faith that, if Trump loses, Covid magically disappears(!). That words coming out of Trump's mouth like "a choice between a Trump boom or a Biden lockdown" don't actually mean what they say but instead mean merely that Trump's administration offers a variety of policy choices for managing Covid while Biden's would offer only one, lockdown (which isn't even true by itself, but also isn't what Trump was saying).

Expand full comment
ReplyCollapse
1 reply
6 more comments…
TopNewCommunity

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2022 The Dispatch
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Publish on Substack Get the app
Substack is the home for great writing