Las Vegas cops prepped to meet sick or injured Biden at hospital days before he dropped out of 2024 race: audio

Police in Las Vegas were told to prepare to meet President Biden at two local hospitals days before he ended his re-election bid, according to newly released dispatch audio, raising new questions about what the White House described as a positive COVID-19 test that forced him to cancel a campaign event.Biden, 81, was never hospitalized July 17, instead flying Air Force One back to his beach house in Delaware, where he remained before issuing a statement on social media four days later announcing his withdrawal from the race.The president was not actually seen in public July 23, when he returned to Washington to explain his decision to drop out in an address to the nation the following evening.A trio of dispatches, obtained and released by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, reveal officers responded to a Code 421, meaning the president was likely “sick or injured,” and deployed lights and sirens to clear a path initially to University Medical Center and then to Harry Reid International Airport.“For everybody on the radio, right now POTUS is 421.He’s being seen, so we are kind of waiting to see how this is shaping out,” one officer says in the recordings.In other dispatches, officers urge “everyone who is able straight to Valley Hospital ER” and are instructed to meet “behind the ER entrance where the ambulance is going.”The officers put out a call to be on maximum tactical alert at the time — and implemented a “full closure” of some major thruways.“All my units at the airport, be advised that the motorcade is at Air Force One, so just hold your road closures until I tell you otherwise,” one officer says in a dispatch“I need to get all the major intersections with lights shut down from Desert Inn all the way to Russell,” another says, referring to the road that leads to the Vegas airport.“Control, 302, just want to let everybody know great work out there.

We put that together ad hoc,” an officer can be overheard in a later ...