The televised speech comes amid growing calls for "proof of life" due to Biden not being publicly seen since July 17.President Joe Biden is slated to deliver an address from the Oval Office on July 24 at 8 PM EST, where he will speak to Americans about his decision to end his 2024 re-election bid.
Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people. According to a dispatch from the White House press pool, Biden is scheduled to depart Rehoboth Beach, Delaware today at 12:30 p.m. and arrive on the South Lawn of the White House at 2:30 p.m. Over the past five days, Biden’s absence from public view has fueled numerous theories about the state of his health. Many pundits, commentators, and interested parties have speculated that he was either dead or dying. According to one report, “all hell broke loose” on the July 17, when law enforcement officers were allegedly informed that Biden suffered an unspecified medical emergency. Although officially Biden was said to have been diagnosed with COVID-19, unnamed sources suggested he had a more serious condition amounting to a "five-alarm fire." Instead of bringing him to a local hospital, the president’s team reportedly rushed him to Johns Hopkins as quickly as possible. When U.S. presidents are near Washington, D.C. and need medical care, it is typically provided at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. According to reports from the White House press pool, Air Force one traveled directly to Dover, Delaware, a short trip from Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach. Emily Gooding, a Senior White House Correspondent for Daily Mail, was aboard Air Force One during the trip from Las Vegas to Dover. As seen in her post on X that evening, Biden is visibly disembarking from the plane without assistance and said he was “doing well.”
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 23, 2024
POTUS arrives in Dover. “I’m doing well,” he said. Flight time from Vegas was 3 hour 48 minutes. AF1 flew so fast the plane shook pic.twitter.com/Gpx2m1vX8O Despite this footage, others continued to suggest that Biden had died in Las Vegas, or was severely incapacitated and clinging to life, while staffers and others were preparing funeral arrangements. “Now we’re hearing that Joe Biden is in hospice care and unlikely to survive the night. I’m absolutely terrified for this country,” said conservative activist Ryan Fournier in a post on X.
— Emily Goodin (@Emilylgoodin) July 18, 2024
Now we’re hearing that Joe Biden is in hospice care and unlikely to survive the night.
I’m absolutely terrified for this country.
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) July 23, 2024
Conservative online personality Matt Wallace wrote on X, “BREAKING: JOE BIDEN LIKELY HAS ONLY DAYS LEFT TO LIVE. 2 weeks ago I reported that they were planning to kill him and make it look like natural causes. THE STAGE IS BEING SET FOR THAT NOW! The President is currently in significantly worse condition than is being disclosed publicly (Per Laura Loomer) and has canceled 9 trips scheduled over the next two weeks.”
Following those incendiary remarks, he floated the theory that unspecified individuals within the government would either inject Biden with a poison to make it appear that he has a heart attack; inject him with a virus similar to Covid, but with a near 100 percent fatality rate; or suffocate him with a medical device.
