DISINFO: Biden admitted he was born in Israel, therefore he is not eligible to be US president

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DISINFO: Biden admitted he was born in Israel, therefore he is not eligible to be US president

SUMMARY

US President Joe Biden has stated that he had been born in Israel. According to the US Constitution, this makes him ineligible to occupy the post of president.

RESPONSE

The claim advances a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about US President Joe Biden.

According to The Insider, the claim is most likely based on a mistranslation of a statement which Biden made, during a visit to Tel Aviv, Israel:

The State of Israel was born to be a safe place for the Jewish people of the world. That’s why it was born.

Joe Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on 20 November 1942, roughly six years before the state of Israel came into existence.

See here for further debunking by The Insider (in Russian).

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