FACT CHECK: “It’s a rosary that Biden wears that belonged to his son Beau Biden”
The night of the first Presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on September 29th created viral controversy over whether Joe Biden was wearing some sort of device on his left wrist, or the rosary from his deceased son Beau who passed away on May 30, 2015. The mainstream media quickly flooded the narrative with headlines about right-wing conspiracy theorists while exclaiming, “it’s his dead son’s rosary” and the social media trolls quickly pounced the scene to discredit anyone alleging otherwise. But the fact of the matter is – it wasn’t his dead son’s rosary – and the evidence is below. CLAIM by Reuters: “The object on his wrist appears to be a pen or a rosary that he wears to honor his late son,” and they linked to the 2017 interview with Megyn Kelly. CLAIM by USA Today: “It’s much more likely that object…