Reporter baffles White House spokesperson by asking if Saudi government infected Biden with Covid

A White House spokesperson has dismissed suggestions that Joe Biden was deliberately infected with Covid during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia.

A New York Post reporter asked John Kirby during a briefing on Wednesday, 28 July, if the United States had ruled out the possibility of the president being infected on his trip.

“The idea that a foreign nation-state would deliberately try to infect the president of the United States with a virus is ludicrous, just absolutely ludicrous,” Mr Kirby said.

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