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The claim: The Czech Republic called Joe Biden and those who voted for him fools.
A frequently repeated false quote, allegedly from the Czech Republic, about the dangers of a political presidency, is once again making the rounds on social media. This time, Joe Biden’s name was plugged in.
The March 10 Facebook post, which has 283,000 shares, claims this is what ‘the Czech Republic’ had to say about the recent election.
“The danger to America is not Joe Biden, but a citizen who can entrust the presidency to a man like him. It will be much easier to limit the folly of a Biden presidency and to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment. a corrupt electorate willing to have such a man for their president, ‘reads the report.
It also claims that Biden is a symptom of what America is helping.
Chris Binnings, who published the report on March 10, did not respond to a request for comment from USA TODAY.
A podcast on iHeart Radio called “The Voice of the Nation” by Malcolm Out Loud also used the quote, as did singer Ted Nugent, who posted the quote on his Facebook page. January 26th. comment.
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Same claim, new person to blame
Although the recent issue of the quote is aimed at Biden supporters, the quote has been on the Internet since at least 2010 and has been replaced by other US presidents, including Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Obama appears to be the first and most common subject of the quote.
Nor is it limited to American politicians. The quote has also been used around the world to target political figures, including former President Jacob Zuma in South Africa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Canada, former President Noynoy Aquino in the Philippines and former Prime Minister John Key in New Zealand.
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Where does it come from?
Sometimes the oft-repeated quote is attributed to an article in the Czech German-language newspaper called Prager Zeitung, other times it is attributed to Ken Peters, a professor of economics in the Czech Republic.
It was even said that the former Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, forwarded it in an email chain. It was also only attributed to the “Czech Republic” without further explanation.
None of these things are true.
There is no evidence online that Klaus said anything like that about Obama, and an article on PolitiFact’s 2014 fact-checking could not find that Klaus ever said that in public. Snopes also considered the allegation false.
USA TODAY could not find any evidence of a Ken Peters in the Czech Republic who is a professor of economics.
As for the newspaper, one of the reports claims that Prager Zeitung published an article with the quote on 28 April 2010; the newspaper flatly denied it. Marcus Hundt, the paper’s editor-in-chief, told Reuters in an email that the paper had “never published such an article. Not about Joe Biden or about Barack Obama. Reuters also found that the claim was untrue in its fact-checking. HundT did not return a request for comment from the US TODAY.
It is unclear where the quote originated. Parts of it go back to at least 2005. Then someone wrote on a public forum: ‘The guilt of the prince of fools must not blind anyone to the great confederation of fools who made him a prince’, and said it attributed to an unknown author.
Our verdict: False
We rate this claim as FALSE, based on our research. The quote did not start with Biden as a topic, but created a way to guide different politicians over the years. The Czech Republic does not comment on Biden. There is also no evidence that the former president of the Czech Republic made the remarks about any of the politicians that different variations of the quotes were targeted, nor that a professor of economics or a Czech newspaper made the statement not.
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