Two Arizona Republican state lawmakers have shared a debunked conspiracy theory that alleges, in part, that President Joe Biden is using body doubles. Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, shared a now deleted post on X, formerly Twitter, falsely claiming that Jill Biden was in Paris and Washington, D.
C., at the same time. The first lady left the White House and flew to France shortly after Biden spoke to the nation about dropping out of the race, PolitiFact reported , and the pictures were taken many hours apart.
Rogers shared the post adding “Body double?” in her post, referring to a similarly debunked claim that the Biden family uses “body doubles” for a number of conspiratorial reasons. Rep. Joseph Chaplik, R-Scottsdale, shared a similar post , reposting an item by former CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who has claimed falsely in the past that vaccines cause autism , a belief that has been thoroughly debunked .
The post claimed that the use of a body double would be “flawless” and hard to detect adding the speculative assumption of “unless they want us to, for some reason.” Atkisson herself was reposting another user who claimed that Biden was taller in footage posted online. That user was accused of pretending to be a black woman who would never vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Rogers also shared a similar post claiming that Biden had grown taller. Earlier in the week, she shared posts making spurious claims, including that Biden had died and it was bein.