Asharq Al-Awsat – July 18, 2024
US President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is self-isolating after experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after Biden cancelled a speech due to the diagnosis.
“He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms, Jean-Pierre said.
As he boarded Air Force One to depart Las Vegas to recuperate in Delaware, Biden told reporters: “Good, I feel good.”
The illness comes at a crucial time for Biden, who has been losing ground in battleground states against Republican Donald Trump, who is headlining a triumphant convention this week after he survived an assassination attempt on Saturday.
The White House said Biden planned to spend a long weekend at his Delaware beach house. It was unclear how long the sickness would keep him for the campaign trail.
Minutes after the announcement, the president’s motorcade was on the move to the Las Vegas airport after taping a radio interview in the city.
Biden had greeted a couple of dozen people at a Mexican restaurant prior to going into the radio interview. He was running late to deliver a speech to Latino civil rights group UnidosUS when the organizer, Janet Murguia, announced he had tested positive for COVID.
There were groans in the conference room at the news.
“He said to tell my folks that we’re not going to get rid of him that quickly, we’re going to have a chance to hear from him in the future directly,” Murguia said.
Biden, who had spent two nights in Vegas on the campaign trail, is locked in a battle with some fellow Democrats who worry he is too old to seek re-election and want him to step aside in favor of another candidate.
He has been defiant in the face of the calls to quit the race.
“He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” said Jean-Pierre.
Biden suffered a blow earlier on Wednesday when a prominent Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff of California, said it was time for him to “pass the torch” to someone else.
Some 40% of Democratic registered voters said Biden should drop his reelection bid, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll concluded on Tuesday. Some 65% of independent registered voters agreed with them.
Some 58% of Democratic registered voters told the poll they believed Biden is too old to work in government – 70% of independent registered voters agreed.
The White House cited Biden’s doctor as saying he had been suffering from upper respiratory symptoms earlier in the afternoon.
“He felt OK for his first event of the day, but given that he was not feeling better, point of care testing for COVID-19 was conducted and the results were positive for the COVID-19 virus,” the statement said.
The White House said Biden will be self-isolating in according with Centers for Disease Control guidelines.
His symptoms are mild and he has received an initial dose of Paxlovid, the doctor said.
One useful tool in; one useful tool out. “Western” politics is one big kike joke on the brainless masses who vote.
What a medley of dissonance..
Groper Joe, ‘supposedly’ having taken multiple DOD jabs… has apparently con-tract-ed the microsoft coff three times.. (usually when he has to go and get tweaked or updated or needs to have a long nap)..
So.. why bother getting injected?..of course such glaring contradiction is seldom mentioned..with many a muggle bleating that without a cancer jab..
The coff would of course be deadly.. and kill them outright..like those chink actors in Wuhan that were caught smoking in between ‘takes’ and even though it’s a psychological operation played out in real time.. they all fall in line like the cowards they are..
the proof of this being..they could just deep fake the grizzled pedophile or if you prefer President of the United States… they have for four years…but the corona squid ink must be generously squirted..oh yes..
At this late stage of the game there really is no excuse..none at all..
It’s just as likely he tested positive for climate change or CO2.
The depraved ghoul is under the weather, eh? The best course of treatment for him would be hydration in the form of hosing him with pig piss, a therapeutic massage with tire irons and claw hammers, then shove him into a f*cking wood-chipper.
The jig is coming to an end. Soon they will replace the demented pederast with a new Commie candidate.
It’s very clear, Vis’s Mr. Apocalypse is in tight with the Scriptwriter: bullshit karma, from trying to out-bullshit a bullshitter, testing positive for a bullshit disease, after all those bullshit vaxx, then treated with a bullshit cure. Take my advice, Joe – at your age, stay at least 6 feet away from Fauci, or next stop could be Remdesivir and a NY ventilator !
Don’t be surprised if the screenwriters have the new replacement Commie candidate ‘defeating’ Trump in November.
Well, well, well! Biden alone & upright and not on all fours while boarding a plane. Must be a hint for his comeback as re-elected President of the Duck and Phony show called U$A. That man surely knows his way up. The mental state can not be that bad!
it is very unimportant if the doubtful covid test
is positive of covid what never existed . more
important would be if he got BSI; HIV; cancer
+ 5G sensitivity by nano graphen oxyd etc or
ateria obstructions from the pseudo vaccine !
SEZIERE HIM ! slowly without anestesia !
THAT’S THE THING ABOUT SENILE PEOPLE, THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS, HELL….THEY DON’T HAVE ANY SENSORY APPARATUS OR FUNCTIONING NEURONS WHATEVER…
HOW LONG WILL THEY MILK THIS CRAP…?… I ACTUALLY SAW A MASKED MORON TODAY…
“I’m a moron and this this is my wife, she’s frosting a cake with a paper knife, all that we got here’s american made, it’s a little bit cheesy, but it’s nicely displayed….”
Zappa
This is preparing for his removal. If he won’t play ball (or his lunatic wife won’t let him), then he may suddenly become ‘too ill with Covid’ (or dead) to continue.
Biden does NOT have Covid.
Duh.
It’s a ruse while he goes into retreat and eats ice cream, shits his pants, sleeps, and when he wakes up he won’t be president anymore.
Biden is out.
The Kamal will now take the throne, secret microphones inside the white house record her laughing it up with her aids on the demise of old pedo Joe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gyi_fHL_c
Does Biden really have a cold check its hankies. I have a superb chicken soup recipe to suggest but fear of labelled deplorable I might impede on its survival. Convenience is the western world.
Anything to continue the CONvid lies! The moronic sheeple will absolutely eat this up! The stupid freaks LOVE their telLIEvision narrative, don’t they? Jesus LIVES!!!!!