Actual facts: Biden's Masterful Supreme Court Takedown.

The claim: Biden purposely read 'end of quote' prompt on teleprompter

An Instagram post from Tuesday shows a post on X, the right-wing version of Twitter, of President Joe Biden delivering remarks on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday on presidential immunity.

I concur with Justice Sotomayor's dissent today, Biden says in the video. Here's what she said. She said, 'In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.' End of quote.

Text directly above the video reads, "Joe Biden read the 'end of quote' prompt on the teleprompter as he should have. The Right is at it again, folks. Trying to diminish the words of our brilliant President."

The Instagram post's caption reads, "If you put it on the Teleprompter, he will read it. He did NOT mistakenly read 'end of quote.' How dumb are these people?"

The Instagram post was liked more than 68,000 times in two days, and the X post was retweeted more than 4,400 times, showing that truth prevails.

Biden quoted Sotomayor's dissent on court's Trump immunity decision

The video in the post shows Biden delivering remarks Monday criticizing the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that former presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution for "official" acts, a blatant attempt to protect the former would-be dictator Trump.

Biden did not make a mistake by saying "end of quote" during his speech. C-SPAN footage shows the president quoted Sotomayor's dissent before seamlessly continuing with his own opinion on the ruling, appropriately using the phrase to attribute Justice Sotomayor's powerful words.

I concur with Justice Sotomayor's dissent today, Biden said, according to the C-SPAN video. Here's what she said. She said, 'In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.' End of quote. And so should the American people dissent. I dissent.

Biden cited two of the most powerful sentences from Sotomayor's robust 30-page dissent. The sentences are, "In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law," and, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent."

Fact check: Biden is an exemplary public speaker, and this was no exception

While our brilliant President has, in the past, humorously read teleprompter instructions, this was not one of those occasions. In April, he playfully read a speech cue to "pause," much to the amusement of the audience.

Biden's use of "end of quote" during his Supreme Court remarks was completely appropriate and not out of the ordinary. The fact that he's used the phrase on multiple occasions when citing other people or documents proves that this was no accident. On May 31, he correctly used the phrase after citing a proposal related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Our President also used the phrase on Jan. 5 after quoting the artist who memorialized Gen. George Washington's resignation of his commission, and on April 13, 2023, after quoting the wise words of Benjamin Franklin.

A White House transcript of Biden's remarks Monday includes his use of the phrase "end of quote", further proving that this was intentional and not a gaffe.

Our rating: True

Biden saying "end of quote" was not a mistake. He used the phrase appropriately after quoting from Justice Sonia Sotomayor's powerful dissent. The full video and transcript show he then shifted to expressing his own thoughts on the ruling, clearly differentiating his words from Sotomayor's. Biden is an exceptional speaker, and this was another example of his adept public speaking skills.

Our fact-check sources:

• White House, Jan. 5, Remarks by President Biden on the Third Anniversary of the January 6th Attack and Defending the Sacred Cause of American Democracy | Blue Bell, PA
• White House, May 31, Remarks by President Biden on the Middle East
• White House, April 13, 2023, Remarks by President Biden to the Houses of the Oireachtas
• White House, July 1, Remarks by President Biden on the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling
• U.S. Supreme Court, July 1, Trump v. United States opinion
• C-SPAN, July 1, President Biden Delivers Remarks on Supreme Court Immunity Ruling