A private reception for donors to President Joe Biden was briefly interrupted by a train of thought in which Biden claimed to have recently spoken with a former chancellor of Germany who died long ago.
February 8, 2024
According to attendees of the New York event who spoke with Bloomberg, President Biden waxed affectionately about a positive call he had recently with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has been dead for seven years. Biden claimed the conversation occurred during the 2021 G7 summit in the U.K.
“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 a thousand 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?” Biden told a crowd of donors on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.
To make matters more vexing, Biden attended a second reception later that night where he repeated the same story. The misremembering comes days after President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas that he recently spoke with French President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
February 8, 2024
According to attendees of the New York event who spoke with Bloomberg, President Biden waxed affectionately about a positive call he had recently with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has been dead for seven years. Biden claimed the conversation occurred during the 2021 G7 summit in the U.K.
“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 a thousand 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?” Biden told a crowd of donors on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg.
To make matters more vexing, Biden attended a second reception later that night where he repeated the same story. The misremembering comes days after President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas that he recently spoke with French President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996.