It is not true that the last message from Trump to Biden was, “Joe, you know I won!”

 

As the letter is still secret, the tweet cannot specify the content of the letter Trump allegedly wrote to Biden before leaving the White House. The claim that the letter reads “Joe, you know I won!” cannot be true. On the other hand, the new US President, Joe Biden, says something completely different – that the letter was “very generous”

 

US President Joe Biden said his predecessor, Donald Trump, had left him a message before departure, which he described as “very generous “. Speaking from the Oval Office, he said he would not disclose the contents of the letter out of respect for Trump.

“The President wrote a very generous letter. Because it was private, I will not talk about it until I talk to him…”- Biden told reporters.

The Facebook post we are reviewing claims that Trump’s last message to Biden was, “Joe, you know I won.” However, this has not been confirmed, as the letter is still being kept secret. Moreover, Biden added that “Because it was private, I will not talk about it until I talk to him (Trump).”

So, if Biden does not publish this letter, then its contents remain secret. And if this leaked from Trump, then Biden would have no reason not to comment and show it to reporters. Why would Biden hide the contents of the letter, if it leaked on social media by Trump? On the contrary, in such a situation, Biden would have no reason to hide the content and say that he should talk to Trump about it beforehand. Why should Biden talk to Trump beforehand about publishing the contents of the letter, if it has already been published on social networks? And why would Biden say the letter was “very generous” if its content was “Joe, you know I won!” That has nothing to do with generosity.

Moreover, a Trump adviser told CNN that the letter was a “personal note that prays for the success of the country and the new administration to care for the country.” This also has nothing to do with “Joe, you know I won!”

It is a modern tradition for outgoing presidents to write their successors a letter and leave it for them on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

But, since the content of Trump’s letter is not in the public domain yet, that is, it has not been made public, the document published in the post we are reviewing is not correct, even though it looks like it has Trump’s signature, stamped by the President of the United States at the top of the page.

The fact-checking service “Quint” compared this letter to a letter that Trump actually wrote in the past and that is publicly available. The site concludes there are fundamental differences in the way the stamp looks, but also the memorandum of the authentic and unreliable letter.

For example, they claim that the letter with the content “Joe, you know I won” is dated in the day-month-year format, and the credible letter from Trump is dated in the month-day-year format. This is another indication that this is a letter that is falsely presented as being from Trump.

Also, two other US fact-checking services, Politifact and USA Today, have already assessed the letter as fake news.

Given that the content of the letter is confidential, given the facts showing that the published letter is fake, as well as the consensus of the fact-checkers, who also assessed the letter as fake, Truthmeter joins this opinion and deems it untrue.

 

 

 

 

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