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Joe Biden Comes Clean About His Favorite 'Performance Enhancers'

The former vice president went full "dad joke" just before the first presidential debate with Donald Trump.
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Joe Biden has answered baseless accusations that he would use performance enhancers for Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland.

And he did it with a “dad joke.”

On Tuesday, a conspiracy theory among President Donald Trump’s supporters sprouted suggesting that the former vice president would wear an electronic device in his ear during the first presidential debate.

According to the theory that NBC News said was pushed in a text message sent by the Trump campaign, Biden also declined to “undergo inspection for electronic ear pieces before debate.”

The Biden campaign denied the disinformation, which came just days after the president suggested drug tests to make sure Biden wasn’t using “performance enhancing drugs” for the debate.

But Biden did come clean on Tuesday afternoon on Twitter with a photo showing exactly which “performance enhancers” he used.

Naturally, Twitter users had their own thoughts.

Some said the choice of ice cream was no coincidence. 

Others weren’t impressed by the earphones.

Some people cried conspiracy.....

Others thought Biden’s tweet did what it was designed to do.

Others were resigned to the fact that it wouldn’t stop the disinformation campaign.

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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to Vice President Joe Biden during an event at the White House in 2017. Obama awarded Biden with the highest civilian honor, commemorating an "extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service." (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Obama, right, speaks as Biden looks on in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 1, 2013. (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Biden kisses his wife, Jill, at the U.S. Capitol after Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president on Jan. 20, 2009. (credit:ROBYN BECK via Getty Images)
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Biden is sworn in by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens during the inauguration of Obama as the 44th president on Jan. 20, 2009. (credit:Mark Wilson via Getty Images)
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Jill and Joe Biden and Barack and Michelle Obama wave to the crowd at "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial" on Jan. 18th 2009. (credit:Kevin Mazur via Getty Images)
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Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Biden (D-Del.) greets potential supporters at a VFW hall on Dec. 2, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa. (credit:Rick Gershon via Getty Images)
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) takes the stage with Biden, his vice-presidential pick, on Aug. 23, 2008, in Springfield, Illinois. (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
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U2 frontman Bono walks with Biden to a meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 3, 2007. (credit:Mark Wilson via Getty Images)
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Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, listens to opening remarks from General David Petraeus on Capitol Hill on Sept. 11, 2007, in Washington. (credit:Alex Wong via Getty Images)
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Biden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during an interview in his office about the possibility of war with Iraq and Secretary of State Colin Powell's intelligence briefing of the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003. (credit:Scott J. Ferrell via Getty Images)
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Biden talks with Lt. Gen. Daniel Zanini, commander of 8th Army chief of staff of UNC & USFK, left, and Lt. Gen. William Miller, UNC security battalion commander, on Aug. 11, 2001, at the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea. (credit:Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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Biden, right, questions John Ashcroft during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 16, 2001. To his left is Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), far left. (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Gen. Colin Powell and Biden share a light moment during a photo op before a question-and-answer session with the press on Jan. 9, 2001. (credit:Tom Williams via Getty Images)
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Biden walks through the subway servicing Capitol Hill while the House Judiciary Committee considered impeaching President Bill Clinton on Dec. 16, 1998. (credit:Karin Cooper via Getty Images)
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Biden stands with his family on the back of a train after announcing his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on June 1, 1987. (credit:Cynthia Johnson via Getty Images)
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Biden and his wife wave to the crowd after he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on June 1, 1987. (credit:Cynthia Johnson via Getty Images)
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Biden at a Senate hearing on Feb. 1, 1986. (credit:Terry Ashe via Getty Images)
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Biden in a "Bicentennial Minutes" segment, a series of nightly shorts commemorating the bicentennial of the American Revolution, which aired from 1974-1976, on Aug. 12, 1974. (credit:CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images)
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Biden circa January 1973. (credit:Bettmann via Getty Images)
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