Biden team argues that all unflattering videos of him are fake, but that’s not true

I think I’ll do some trash-talking today.

Not my style, I know. But indulge me here.

The two candidates spend so much time and energy denigrating and denouncing each other that you really can’t cover this campaign without delving into that. Even when the charges and counter-charges are false, misleading or based on digital manipulation.

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Let’s start with Joe Biden’s alleged "frozen" moment, at least according to his detractors. The trash-talk tally: This guy is really out of it, always seems to be wandering aimlessly.

On Sunday, the campaign released footage of the star-studded L.A. fundraiser that raised $30 million. Biden and Barack Obama are waving to the crowd. Biden, 81, stops for a few seconds and is basking in the thunderous cheers. He wasn’t dazed or confused, just taking in the moment.

But what Obama did next is inexplicable. He knows his former VP has been under a constant barrage as frail and confused. Yet he literally took Biden’s hand to lead him off the stage, then kept his hand on the president’s back as they walked.

Not a single second of that video was distorted in any way. Nobody had to. Everyone could watch it and make up their own minds.

But Karine Jean-Pierre was unusually aggressive in attacking distorted videos of her boss. What the Biden White House, the Biden campaign and its media defenders are trying to make people believe that any video that portrays the president in an unflattering light is a "deepfake" or "cheapfake," to use the press secretary’s words. Cheap, maybe, but not always fake.

That effort conflates two very different situations. The New York Post seemed to follow the RNC’s lead in running a cropped photo of Biden