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(CNN) — President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19, according to the president and CEO of UnidosUS Janet Murguía.

Biden was expected to speak at the group’s conference in Las Vegas Wednesday night.

I was just on the phone with President Biden. And he shared his deep disappointment at not being able to join us this afternoon. The president has been at many events as we all know and he just tested positive for Covid

Murguía told attendees.

Biden, 81, had been scheduled to take the stage an hour and a half prior.

CNN has reached out to the Biden campaign and the White House for comment.

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[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 131 points 5 months ago

Biden, 81, had been scheduled to take the stage an hour and a half prior.

he doesn’t have covid, you don’t make people wait 90 minutes for that announcement. they’re making shit up because they tried to get him coherent for over an hour and nothing was working.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 108 points 5 months ago

biden's doctor giving him hundreds of covid tests until one of them gives a false positive so he can diagnose without losing their license

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 65 points 5 months ago

it feels kinda cheesy to abuse the game mechanics like that

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 58 points 5 months ago

trump-anguish

Sleepy Joe is wavedashing away from the public eye! Sad!

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 40 points 5 months ago

“People are saying I’m the best at movement tech. My speedrunning is like me on the campaign trail. Unstoppable, unbeatable, always winning. Sleepy Joe speedruns like he’s trying to finish a sentence.”

[-] Storm@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

"Sleepy Joe speedruns like he's trying to finish a sentence."

michael-laugh

[-] femboi@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

Folks, Biden can't even do a basic rocket jump! It's very sad. Unlike me, I'm the best soldier in RGL. Everyone knows it. I've got the best syncshots and surfs, the best anyone's ever seen! Froyotech was gonna play me but they got too scared and forfeited! True story

[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

pretty sure the chip damage from the swab would kill him at this point

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago

exactly, hope he does have it and it kills him but sounds sus so far

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Not like Biden would remember getting the last one 15 minutes before.

Anyway, would be funny if that gave him a sinus infection that was the beginning of the end

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago

He was already an hour late to his big boy press conference. The time and effort required to induce lucidity is getting longer and longer

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 50 points 5 months ago

and they’ve probably got a whole team coming up with excuses like his grandmother just passed away or the parliamentarian said he can’t come out on stage today

[-] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 5 months ago

It seems unlikely to me that they’d use covid as the excuse considering how hard they try to pretend that the pandemic is over and that Biden defeated it

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

compelling counterpoint, but after the biden tweet of “I’m sick… of Elon Musk and his rich buddies trying to buy this election. [donation link] Show your support with a contribution.” it seems more like a stunt

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

he’s fucking with everyone to fundraise:

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

That's someone on his PR team. Biden definitely is not doing his own Tweets.

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Imagine how hilarious it would be if Biden actually tried to tweet

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