Does the White House have a magic Ouija board we don't know about?
President Joe Biden claimed Wednesday that he had a sobering conversation about the U.S. Capitol riot with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the 2021 G7 summit. The only problem? Kohl had passed away four years earlier.
At a high-dollar fundraiser in New York, Biden erroneously recalled, “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some bobbies on the way in, to deny the prime minister to take office.”
He repeated the same gaffe at another fundraiser mere hours later.
Besides apparently mixing up Helmut Kohl with Angela Merkel, Biden conjured up a conversation with former French President François Mitterrand at the same G7 summit.
Speaking to supporters in Las Vegas, the president claimed, “I sat down [at the meeting] and said: ‘America is back!' And Mitterand from Germany – I mean, from France – looked at me and said… Said… You know, why… How long you back for?”
At the time of their supposed conversation, it had been a quarter century since Mitterrand's death.
The incidents this week are only the latest in a series of puzzling comments by Biden involving dead people.
For instance, Biden told supporters at a 2022 gathering in Hallandale Beach, Florida, that he spoke with the man who “invented” insulin.
“How many of you know somebody with diabetes and needs insulin?” Biden asked the attendees. “Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? … It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, OK?”
By the time Biden was born in 1942, insulin co-discoverers Frederick Banting and John Macleod were already dead. Charles Best and James Collip, two more insulin co-discoverers, were alive for decades after Biden was born, but were named on the patent, which is contrary to his statement.
In September 2022, Biden attempted to thank former Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski for her work on a health and hunger initiative. Walorski died in a car crash the month prior.
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