Joe Biden says there are ‘120 million dead from COVID’ in latest gaffe

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 Joe Biden says there are ‘120 million dead from COVID’ in latest gaffe

By Yaron Steinbuch

June 26, 2020 | 7:29am | Updated

Self-proclaimed “gaffe machine” Joe Biden added several extra zeroes to the nation’s coronavirus death toll during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania — prompting President Trump to slam the prospective Democratic nominee’s “mortifyingly stupid” comment.

“People don’t have a job, people don’t know where to go, they don’t know what to do,” the former vice president said in Lancaster on Thursday, Fox News reported. “Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.”
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In reality, the death toll from the illness in the US stood at about 122,000, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

Biden, 77, did manage to catch himself when he uttered the flub, which didn’t make it into the pool video of the event, according to the news outlet.

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The cutaway after the comment was worth the price of admission. 

If there was any honesty in the Media, there should have been this headline everywhere:

HORRENDOUS VIRUS

Biden claims 1 in 3 American have been killed by it.