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In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders
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He referred to Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, instead of French President Emmanuel Macron, and the late Helmut Kohl instead of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Biden confuses French President Emmanuel Macron with ex-leader Mitterrand, who died in 1996
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In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders
President Biden appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with a former leader of the European country who’s been dead since the mid-1990s during a Las Vegas campaign speech Sunday.
President Biden told a crowd of supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Mitterand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday reportedly said he spoke at a 2021 meeting to a European leader who has been dead for years, a gaffe Biden has made multiple times in the past five days.
He referred to Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, instead of French President Emmanuel Macron, and the late Helmut Kohl instead of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
For the second time this week, President Joe Biden mixed up European leaders, confusing former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl with Angela Merkel at a fundraising event in New York.
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.
President Biden made his second gaffe of the week on Wednesday at campaign events in New York, claiming he spoke with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the G7 meeting in 2021.
