Meghan McCain has a new conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden: he is faking his latest diagnosis of COVID-19.
McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a former co-host of "The View," laid out why she believes this in the latest episode of her "Citizen McCain" podcast, according to The Daily Beast.
“We are very close to Biden stepping down,” she said this week on the podcast. “I don’t even know if at this point I believe President Biden has COVID. I think there is a trust deficit with the American public, certainly with me and the Biden administration’s candidness and transparency regarding Biden’s health. I don’t know if I believe he actually has COVID.”
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She went on to suggest that the COVID diagnosis could in fact be an “egregious” lie at a “level we’ve never seen in politics” that “might just be an excuse for him to step down gracefully.”
It's the latest in a series of attacks she has leveled at him over his mental fitness for office, despite having previously called him “one of the truly decent and compassionate men in all of American politics.”
Biden did ironically say, just hours before testing positive for COVID and canceling his UnidosUS speech in Las Vegas, that a "medical condition" was one of the only things that might make him consider bowing out of his re-election campaign. He is currently recovering at his home in Delaware after reportedly experiencing only minor symptoms and, assuming he doesn't succumb to mounting pressure to step down as some reports indicate he might be, is expected to return to the campaign trail next week.
McCain seized the opportunity on her podcast to go after Republicans too, slamming the GOP convention in Milwaukee over the last several days as "the funeral" of "traditional conservatism" and complaining that former President Donald Trump's newly-minted running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), is too "inexperienced" for the job of V.P.
