Checking the facts. Joe Biden’s campaign leader arrested for election fraud? – Observer

An image accompanying a Facebook post on November 16 states that Dallas Jones, political analyst and one of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign manager, was arrested for election fraud after “collecting thousands of ballots and voting with the identity of the people. homeless, elderly and dead ”.

But a reverse search for the photograph in question, presumably showing Dallas Jones detention, shows that, in fact, the The image is of the arrest of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in 2019 for sexual assault. The photograph is a screenshot of the video showing the artist being captured by the New York authorities and published by, for example, place TMZ.

At stake was the meeting between Cuba Gooding Jr., girlfriend Claudine De Niro and a woman in a hotel in June last year. According to this woman, the actor from the “Empire” series touched her thighs and breasts without permission, as she sat between the two members of the couple. The case resulted in six counts of sexual assault and has nothing to do with election fraud in the November 3 elections.

Furthermore, there are no indications of any kind of sabotage in the latest polls in the United States. It is the same Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, founded by Donald Trump in 2018 which, in a statement with other government agencies dedicated to the same topic, confirmed that “There is no evidence that a voting system has excluded or lost votes, altered votes or has been compromised in any way” and that “the November 3 elections were the safest in American history”.

In fact, there was a petition signed by Republicans in Harris – a county in Houston, Texas where Dallas Jones was a businessman before he took over the political leadership of the Democratic campaign – that tried to prevent the deadline for voting. anticipated and places where it could be done. One of the signatories was a former FBI investigator who accused Dallas Jones and three other people of illegally collecting votes. to Harris.

The petition was rejected and all allegations that Dallas Jones was arrested for crimes of this nature were denied by himself, who, in an interview with the New York Times, commented that those statements were “made-up claims and unfounded “and guaranteed: “I have not been arrested”.

Houston Police Department spokesman Jodi Silva told Agence France-Presse neither Dallas Jones was arrested, nor would there be any allegations of election fraud against him Research. Douglas Ray, lawyer for the four defendants in question, also replied to AFP:

“I am not aware that anyone has been arrested or that there is an investigation beyond the self-appointed ‘investigators’ whose affidavits have been added to this injunction request (which was rejected). As far as I’m concerned, these claims are fictional“.

It is not true that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign political director Dallas Jones was arrested on suspicion of participating in an election fraud scheme. The photograph in the viral publication shows the arrest of an American actor on suspicion of sexual harassment. Neither Dallas Jones was arrested, nor are there any indications of widespread election fraud in the November 3 US election.

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