No, JFK Jr. did not attend. at the inauguration of Donald Trump

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John F. Kennedy Jr. is dead. during former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, but a video circulating on Facebook says otherwise.

“What if I told you? The whole planet saw JFK Jr on Donald J. Trumps inauguration day!” reads text with bad punctuation over Kennedy’s photo. It shows a clip of Trump walking on inauguration day and focuses on a man’s face.

“Meet the blue-eyed US Secret Service agent John Galt,” reads the next block of text that appears in the video, which goes on to claim that this person is actually Kennedy with a silicone mask and blue contact lenses .

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We don’t know the name of the agent who walked with Trump to his inauguration. (John Galt is the main character in the Ayn Rand book “Atlas Shrugged.”)

But not Kennedy, who died in 1999 when the plane he was on crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. His body was recovered a few days after the crash.

This agent was the subject of another conspiracy theory in 2017. The Daily Mail and Inside Edition among others reported false claims that he was wearing prosthetic hands so he could hold a gun under his coat. Video footage of the event disproved this rumor.

Claims that Kennedy is alive come from the QAnon movement, whose proponents have suggested that he was behind the so-called Q drops.

We rate claims that Kennedy attended Trumps inauguration Pants on Fire!

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