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US PRESIDENT JOE Biden will return to the White House later today after spending nearly a week at his personal residence recovering from Covid.
It also marks a first return to Washington since dropping his re-election bid on Sunday, according to his official schedule.
Biden is expected to leave his beach home in Delaware this afternoon and arrive at the White House at 2:30 pm (7.30 Irish time), according to the schedule.
The US president will also give a rare primetime speech from the Oval Office tomorrow after his decision to quit the 2024 White House race.
“Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET (1am Thursday Irish time), I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden said on X.
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.
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 23, 2024
Biden is also expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, the day after Netanyahu delivers a major speech to the US Congress.
The date of the White House meeting had been in the air as Biden recovered from Covid, with Israel initially reporting the leaders were due to speak today.
However, Kamala Harris will not attend Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress tomorrow due to a pre-planned rally, but an aide said this “should not be interpreted as a change in her position with regard to Israel.”
She will hold a separate meeting with Netanyahu as he visits Washington.
Harris hit the US campaign trail today after effectively clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, heading to the battleground state of Wisconsin to renew her attacks on Republican candidate Donald Trump.
The vice president took just 36 hours to secure enough delegates to be nominated, moving with lightning speed.
Hollywood star George Clooney – one of the first high-profile Democratic activists to urge Biden to drop his re-election bid – today joined a series of heavyweights in backing 59-year-old Harris to face Trump in November.
“President Biden has shown what true leadership is,” Clooney said in a statement to CNN. “We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris.”
Her campaign announced it had raised $100 million since her entry into the White House race, with 62% of donations coming from first time donors.
Biden stunned the world by dropping his re-election bid Sunday, bowing to weeks of pressure after a disastrous debate performance against Trump raised concerns about his age and mental acuity.
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Stop supplying weapons to Israel and impose sanctions on them.
@Ger Whelan: Israel are doing an awesome job
@John D Doe: They are in their hole.
@John D Doe: awesome job of killing the mothers and babies of Gaza? You vile sad excuse of a human being.
I look forward to Biden again saying how evil Putin is while shaking hands with someone even worse
@Mr Sparkle: 100%.
Wow, The Journal has an article referencing Israel open for comments? Won’t be long now before they realise that it wasn’t intentional. Western world governments should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves the way they are tip-toeing around Netanyahu, especially the USA. They’re doing this and doing that, calling for this and calling for that, but ultimately they are doing zero. Literally zero. What’s worrying is that’s it’s across all political governing parties. Biden or Trump, it makes no difference. How can the Israeli state have such influence in the face of blatant genocide?
@Pad: Have you seen God watching?
@Pad: you have 3 scenarios then. 1- god is watching and either doesn’t care or likes what he sees and won’t intervene.
2- god is watching and he can’t do anything about it or intervene.
3- there is no god.
Either choice is the same outcome. God is irrelevant.
@Pad: paddy you don’t speak for the worlds Christians, particularly the ones whose church was bombed to rubble by the Israeli vengeful bloodlust.
@Pad: if there’s a God he won’t be looking favourably at Israel…
@Andrew Kenny: all paid up by the Israel lobby. They can do whatever the hell they want, as long as they keep filling up the pockets of the presidential candidates, nothing is going to change. America is a disgrace, I loved it once, spent a lot of time there as a kid but now the whole place is rotting.
@Pad: you sick sick person. I dont believe in God, never did but if you think there is a God in this world who would allow hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children and men to be murdered all to protect a so called “holy land” than I seriously suggest you seek a psychiatric evaluation.
@Pad: the only person who needs to repent is you. I wish you luck and if there is a heaven or hell I know which one I’ll be going to and which you’ll be going to. You are a disgrace.
@Pad: no dear if there is, I’ll be in heaven, I haven’t done harm on anyone and I truly believe that, you are wishing destruction on a whole country of people to protect a so called holy land. You will be rotting in hell with the rest of the trash, enjoy.
Unbelievable that they allow the butcher to enter the US, let alone be met by the President and the US Congress. Un-efin believable. How many people must one murder, or how many weapons must one buy, to be arrested, or at the very least, barred from entering the US?
He must have some serious dirt on people to be allowed to flout international law and the Geneva Convention like that.
Cowards.
@George Vladisavljevic: The Jews control the Mula.
Genocide joe
He’s alive! X/ Twitter lied to me!
@Adrian O’Donnell: are you surprised about lies on X?
#MadamPresident2024
@9QRixo8H: more misinformation from you patriot. You’re worse than Trump for the lies
He’ll probably welcome Yassar Arafat to America on Thursday! Any chance of arresting that disgusting war criminal and charging him with genocide?
While I agree that the head of the secret service needed to resign due to clear failures to secure the rally area……….Anyone who fails to act to defend one of the most significant political figures in a compromised security situation…..despite directly being informed of that threat, directly requested to immediately do something to control and disperse that threat and who instead sits on their ass in front of TV coverage of the situation……can you see where I’m going with this? Mike Pence. Members of Congress. Direct communication to the politician ultimately in charge of the Defence Department by the leader of the House Republicans, etc. Trump should have resigned on January 6th.
Maybe he’ll pass on the covid!
Are those my feet??
The price of crypto dropping since the emergence of vice president Harris as a presidential candidate
@Argus Romsworth: thoughts and prayers for the bitcoin bros
Excellent statesman
@Argus Romsworth: Who?
Juicy Joe.
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