Taking the campaign to a new low, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday retweeted a video of his rival candidate Joe Biden from 2015 and baselessly referred to him as a paedophile. “We can beat them at their game .. #PedoBiden,” read the tweet.

In the video, Biden can be seen whispering something to Stephanie Carter, who is the wife of former Defence Secretary Ash Carter. It was taken during his swearing-in ceremony. The video has been making rounds on social media gained a lot of traction with the President’s retweet.

Rubbishing the allegations raised against Biden, Stephanie Carter had clarified that she was being comforted by Biden when “he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous.”

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“After the swearing-in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in to tell me ‘thank you for letting him do this’ and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot was taken from a video -misleadingly extracted from what was a  moment between close friends -sent out in a snarky tweet – came to be the lasting image of that day,” she said in a statement.

This is not the first time that the President has raised baseless accusations against Joe Biden. Earlier this week, Trump had accused Biden of taking performance-enhancing drugs.