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On two separate occasions on Wednesday, President Joe Biden claimed to have spoken with the late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in 2021. Kohl died in 2017.
Biden told Democratic donors in New York a story that very clearly did not happen, then repeated it again later in the day.
At the first event, according to a pool report, the president told attendees about an exchange he claims to have had at the 2021 G7 summit in Great Britain:
Helmut Kohl said: “Joe, what would you think if I picked up the phone and picked up the newspaper tomorrow and learned in The Times of London, on the front page, that 1,000 people stormed Parliament, smashed down the doors and the edifice.
It's hard to choose what's of greater concern here — the fact that this clearly didn't happen, or that Biden is once again making a false claim that police officers were killed during the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol.
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What's astonishing is that none of Biden's aides seemed to pull him aside to tell him: “Hey, president, you didn't talk to Helmut Kohl in 2021.”
Because Biden repeated the story almost verbatim at an event at the Mandarin Oriental hotel near Columbus Circle.
One could reasonably assume that the White House's defense of these mental lapses would be to assert that it was in fact meant by Angela Merkel, who was Germany's chancellor at the time.
We know this because just two days ago they used the same defense when President Biden said he spoke with former French President François Mitterrand. He was telling the exact same story supposedly from the 2021 summit, but this time instead of claiming to have spoken with Kohl, he claimed to have interacted with Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
“You know, right – right after I was elected, I went to what they call the G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders. This was in the south of England. And I sat down and said: America is back,” Biden claimed, according to his truth.
He added: “And Mitterrand, from Germany – I mean from France – looked at me and said: 'You know what – why – how long will you come back?'”
The White House website later corrected Biden's comment, crossing out Mitterrand and writing, “Macron.”
Watch: Joe Biden says he recently met “Mitterand from Germany.”
Mitterrand assumed the presidency of France from 1981 to 1995.
He also died in 1996. pic.twitter.com/W0YPBDp69n
– Merciful. (@Rahim Qassem) February 5, 2024
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Almost as bad as when he asked the dead congresswoman to stand up
Biden Boy Math – 1 story + 2 dead people + 3 times = sixth Sense.
These things aren't as bad 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,” he said, looking at the audience. “She would have been here.”
“Jackie, where's Jackie?” Joe Biden says of Rep. 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 was killed along with two of her employees in a car accident in Elkhart County, Indiana.
Walorski's mother would later explain to Biden where Jackie was — heaven.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked this week about Biden's mental fitness, of which he has none, and quickly dodged the topic.
“How will President Biden convince three-quarters of voters who are concerned about his physical and mental health that he is fine, even though he told a story in Las Vegas about recently speaking with a French president who died in 1996? asked Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy.
“I won't even go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” she responded in disgust.
Jean-Pierre added: “I saw the president in Vegas, in California. I saw the president in South Carolina. I saw him in Michigan. “I'll just leave it there.”
Peter Doocy: “How will President Biden convince three-quarters of voters who are concerned about his physical and mental health that he is fine even though he told a story in Las Vegas about recently speaking with a French president who died in 1996?”
KGB: “I am not… pic.twitter.com/A98B07TNLy
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 6, 2024
An unintelligent response from an unintelligent press secretary. Support Biden like Weekend at Bernie's It is not proof to voters that it is no He suffers from severe mental deterioration.
An NBC News poll confirms this, with three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, saying they have concerns about Biden's mental and physical health.
The other 25% probably believe Mitterrand and Cole are still alive as well.
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