GOP Operative Jake Schneider Behind Fake Biden Videos

An RNC staffer is behind the viral doctored videos of Joe Biden appearing senile, a new report from The Daily Beast shows, Ben Metzner wrote for The New Republic.

RNC Research has also promoted an edited video that suggests that the president pooped himself, which has been debunked. I Photo: Adam Schultz, The White House Flickr

According to the Beast’s Jake Lahut, 31-year-old Jake Schneider, a former Trump campaign employee and former intern for Tea Party Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, runs the popular RNC Research Twitter account, which has posted several videos of Biden appearing confused or freezing up.

RNC Research has also promoted an edited video that suggests that the president pooped himself, which has been debunked.

RNC Research’s skullduggery comes in the wake of the total remaking of the RNC in Trump’s image: Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump and election-denier Michael Whatley were picked to helm the organization in March.

Sources close to the Trump campaign called Schneider “The tip of the spear” of the GOP effort to make Biden’s age a central issue of the election. And they’re not wrong.

Schneider and RNC Research enjoy high levels of coordination with powerful right-wing media organizations smuggling the interests of the ruling class through seemingly neutral platforms: Sinclair Broadcast Group has been buying up local news affiliates and turning them into pro-Trump organs and blasting out syndicated news features on Biden’s age using RNC Research videos (to nearly 100 local news websites in the past month).