Opinion
On two separate occasions Wednesday, President Joe Biden said he spoke with dead former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. Kohl died in 2017.
Biden told Democratic donors in New York a story that clearly didn’t happen, and then repeated it again later in the day.
At the first event, according to a pool report, the President told those in attendance about an exchange he claims to have had at the 2021 G7 summit in Britain:
“Helmut Kohl said, ‘Joe, what would you think if tomorrow you picked up the telephone and picked up the newspaper and found out from the Times of London, on the front page, that 1,000 people stormed Parliament, broke down the doors of the House of Commons and in the process they killed 2 politicians… trying to stop the election of a prime minister?’” he said.
It’s hard to choose which is the bigger concern here: the fact that this clearly didn’t happen, or that Biden is once again falsely claiming that police officers were killed during the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol.
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What’s fascinating is that none of Biden’s aides appear to have taken him aside to let him know, “Hey, boss, you didn’t talk to Helmut Kohl in 2021.”
Because Biden repeated the story almost verbatim during an event at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel near Columbus Circle.
One can reasonably assume that the White House’s defense in the face of these mental errors will be to claim that it actually meant Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany at the time.
We know this because just two days ago they used the same defense when President Biden said he had spoken to former French President François Mitterrand. He was telling the exact same story supposedly from the 2021 summit, only this time instead of claiming to have spoken to Kohl, he claimed to have interacted with Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
“You know, right, right after I got elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, with all the NATO leaders. And it was in… it was in the south of England. And I sat down and said, ‘America is back,’ ” Biden said according to the reality of him.
“And Mitterrand, from Germany – I mean, from France looked at me and said – said, ‘You know, what for – why – how long did you come back for?’” he added.
The White House website subsequently corrected Biden’s comment, deleting Mitterrand and writing “Macron”.
WATCH: Joe Biden says he recently met ‘Mitterrand from Germany.’
Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
He also died in 1996. pic.twitter.com/W0YPBDp69n
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) February 5, 2024
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Almost as bad as when he asked a dead congresswoman to stand up
Biden boy math – 1 story + 2 dead people + 3 times = Sixth Sense.
These are not as serious as when the President tried to point out a congresswoman in the crowd even though she had died months earlier.
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” she said, scanning the audience. “She would have been here.”
“Jackie, where’s Jackie?”, says Joe Biden of Congressman Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/khdiesmEsx
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 28, 2022
He was referring to Jackie Walorski who, along with two members of her staff, was killed in a car accident in Elkhart County, Indiana.
Walorski’s mother would later helpfully explain to Biden where Jackie was: Heaven.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre was asked this week about Biden’s mental health, which he has none, and she quickly dodged the topic.
“How will President Biden convince three-quarters of voters worried about his physical and mental health that he is well, even though in Las Vegas he said he recently spoke with a French president who died in 1996? ” asked Fox News reporter Peter Doocy.
“I’m not even going to go down the rabbit hole with you, sir,” she retorted in disgust.
Jean-Pierre added: “You saw the president in Las Vegas, California. You saw the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll leave it there.”
PETER DOOCY: “How will President Biden convince the three-quarters of voters worried about his physical and mental health that he is fine, even though in Las Vegas he said he had recently spoken to a French president who died in 1996”?
KJP: “I’m not… pic.twitter.com/A98B07TNLy
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 6, 2024
An unintelligent response from an unintelligent publicist. Support Biden as Weekend at Bernie’s it is not proof to voters that it is Not struggling with severe mental decline.
An NBC News poll confirms this, with three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, saying they are concerned about Biden’s mental and physical health.
The remaining 25% probably think that Mitterrand and Kohl are also still alive.
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