Biden blunders again — says he discussed Capitol riot with ex-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017
NY Post | 2/08/24 | Victor NavaSame story, same result.
For the third time this week, President Biden told an audience that he discussed the Jan, 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol with European leaders who were actually dead at the time.
On Wednesday, Biden told Democratic donors in New York that he spoke about the riot with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose death pre-dates the event by nearly half a decade.
The shocking gaffe comes just days after the 81-year-old president confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the country’s ex-leader Francois Mitterrand — who died in 1996.
Biden made the blunder Wednesday in front of audiences at two separate fundraisers as he regaled donors with an anecdote about his first international trip as president – to the 2021 G-7 summit in Great Britain – after his 2020 election win over former President Donald Trump.
“I showed up … and I sat down and said, ‘America’s back,’ and [French President Emmanuel] [Macron] looked at me and said, ‘For how long?’ How long? Not a joke,” Biden recalled, according to a pool report of the president’s stop at the home of Maureen White, whose husband Steven Rattner manages billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s fortune.
“Helmut Kohl said, ‘Joe, what would you think if you picked up the phone and picked up the paper tomorrow and learned in the London Times, on the front page, that 1,000 people stormed the Parliament, broke down the doors of the House of Commons and killed 2 bobbies in the process … trying to stop the election of a prime minister?’” he added.
Kohl, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1982 to1998, died in 2017 – nearly four years before the 2021 G7 summit.
“I remember like it was yesterday, when FDR came on everyone’s color televisions to reassure America with the Gettysburg Address that Santa Anna’s armies had been defeated. As a young Jewish, Puerto Rican child in a black Catholic church, I was impressed by the priest’s sermon that week about, you know, the thing. Then my family drove their Chevy to the levee when Columbus personally brought the Statue of Liberty to America along with my 10%. I like lasagna because my mansions are made of bricks. Please vote for me for Senate. (whispering) My wife isn’t really a doctor, no joke.”
Biden:
“I told all of em that imma straight shooter man and when I walk into a bar I tell em all ..”I only chew Wrigley’s man.”
Nothing strange here – Hillary talked to Eleanor Roosevelt…
President Biden: I see dead people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
[Biden shakes his head no]
Malcolm Crowe: While you’re awake?
[Biden nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
President Biden: Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.
Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?
President Biden: All the time. They’re everywhere.
Well they are his true peers these days.
Biden should be off in a corner of a seniors home, polishing his Helmut schtick….