President Joe Biden spoke to two fundraising audience members on Wednesday about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot with a European leader who was actually dead at the time, adding that he had previously boasted about his meeting with the deceased. I mentioned that it will be done.
Biden told Democratic donors in New York that he had spoken to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl about the Jan. 6 incident. Cole’s death occurred nearly six months before the scheduled conversation. new york post report.
As reported by Breitbart News, the gaffe came just days after the 80th president confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the country’s former leader Francois Mitterand, who died in 1996.
Biden entertained donors Wednesday with stories of his first foreign trip as president – the 2021 G7 summit in the UK – after defeating former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. , he made a blunder in front of an audience not once, but twice.
The stumble came a day after the president appeared to address a simple question at a White House press conference.
Biden struggles to answer reporters’ questions at White House press conference
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The exchange seems to follow a pattern of confusion and misunderstanding for the 81-year-old.
“I showed up … and sat down and said, ‘America is back.’ [French President Emmanuel] Macron looked at me and said, “For how long?” how long? I’m not kidding,” Biden recalled. pool report The president stopped by the home of Maureen White, whose husband Stephen Ratner manages the estate of billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“Helmut Kohl said, ‘Joe, if you pick up the phone and pick up a newspaper tomorrow, you’ll see on the front page of the London Times that 1,000 people stormed Parliament and broke down the doors of the House of Commons. So what would you think if you knew that you had murdered a member of the House of Commons and killed two bovies in the process… Are you trying to prevent the election of a prime minister?” he added.
Kohl, who served as German chancellor from 1982 to 1998, died in 2017, almost four years before the 2021 G7 summit.
At the time of the world leaders meeting mentioned by Biden, the German chancellor was Angela Merkel.
About 50 guests, including actor Robert De Niro, witnessed the gaffe.
An NBC News poll conducted last month found that 76% of voters, including half of Democrats, said they were concerned about Biden. mental and physical health.
