A US Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint during a Joe Biden fundraising trip at the weekend, according to police.
The agent was returning from work Saturday night when he was accosted in a residential community in Tustin, about an hour’s drive southeast of Los Angeles. Tustin Police said on Monday they had not found a suspect. Officers did find some of the agent’s stolen belongings in the area.
Police reported a silver Infiniti FX35 was seen leaving the scene. Biden and former President Barack Obama held a star-studded fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday that brought in more than £20 million for Biden’s reelection campaign.
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Biden and former President Barack Obama held a star-studded fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday (AFP via Getty Images)However, the event was mired in debate following footage of Joe Biden circulating on social media with claims that he froze up onstage as he exited the event.
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“Biden froze again last night and had to get escorted out by Obama,” reads one post on Twitter that had received approximately 22,000 likes and 5,600 shares as of Monday. “Is this normal?”
Members of his campaign and administration say the president stopped to take in cheers and applause as he left a sit-down with Jimmy Kimmel and Obama.
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Police reported a silver Infiniti FX35 was seen leaving the scene. (County News)Former President Donald Trump shared a video on his social media platform Truth Social that showed a grainy version of Biden stopping and looking out into the audience as he departed. “Is this really who you want to be your president?” Trump asked in the post.
Separate footage from the event provided to The Associated Press by Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer shows the president waving, pointing, clapping and giving the thumbs-up to the audience alongside Obama while Kimmel waits off to the side. Biden then stands still for about seven seconds looking out at the crowd. He starts moving again when Obama briefly takes his arm and puts his hand on his back as the pair walks offstage.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates described the moment as “the President taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds.”
Mr Singer attributed the negative characterisations as a distraction tactic from those who “are so scared of losing to Joe Biden, they’ll make anything up to distract from the fact that their candidate for president, Donald Trump, has been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, committed financial fraud, and only cares about himself.”
In response to a question at a press briefing on Monday about videos that have been edited to make Biden appear frail or confused, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called such footage “cheap fakes video” that are “done in bad faith.” She added that they demonstrate “everything that we need to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.”
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