On September 8, 2025, Jacob Recess was the subject of Google Image searches in his official capacity as Chief of Staff for the Vice President.
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The Jimmy Dore ShowAug 3, 2026
No source reports that Jacob Recess was the subject of Google Image searches on September 8, 2025, so the central assertion is uncorroborated, though it is not contradicted.
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… You gotta go out and escort him onto the base. So she went and searched V POTUS Jacob Recess, misspelled R E C E S, C O S. So, in other words, Vice President of the United States, Jacob Recess, misspelled, chief of staff, and bang, there it was. On September 8, 2025, he was being Google Image searched in his official capacity as the chief of staff for the vice president. So I'm thinking to myself, oh my God. Well, then somebody reminded me that when Brian Harpole sat down with Sean Ryan, you know, like, trying to and failing miserably, um, to talk about autopsies and everything else, there was something really interesting …
The Jimmy Dore Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Wikipedia-style office listings identify Jacob Reses as Chief of Staff to the Vice President, which matches the claimed role apart from the spelling of the surname.[3][4]
Context. A social media post from Honest Ash repeats the Google Image search allegation for September 8, 2025, but it is circular: it restates the claim without any independent record behind it.[5]
Context. No fact-checker or primary record in the sources addresses the Google Image search claim, so there is neither corroboration nor a debunk.[1][2]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 not rated
- 1Fact Checking Articles - Snopes.comsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Society: September 2025leadstories.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Office of the Vice President of the United States - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Office of the Vice President of the United States - Wikipediasimple.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Stew Peters - Honest Ash - Xx.com · not rated · cited for: context
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