Whereas talking to a crowd in Las Vegas over the weekend, Joe Biden advised a narrative about talking with French Prime Minister Francois Mitterrand in 2021.
There’s only one small downside with that. Mitterrand has been lifeless since 1996.
Just a few individuals in media have recommended that Biden was simply getting names blended up. Do you imagine that’s what’s happening right here?
FOX News reviews:
Biden tells crowd he not too long ago met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996
President Biden advised a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he not too long ago met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been lifeless for practically 30 years.
The feedback got here whereas Biden was warning of the hazards of a possible second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm forward of Tuesday’s Democratic major in Nevada.
Biden recounted a narrative he has advised many instances throughout his presidency, a few assembly he had with French President Emmanuel Macron throughout a G7 assembly in England, some months after Biden had taken over the White Home.
“I sat down and I mentioned, ‘America’s again,’” Biden recalled. “And Mitterrand from Germany – I imply from France – checked out me and mentioned…”
Biden appeared to path off earlier than accumulating his ideas to complete the sentence: “Nicely, how lengthy are you again for?”
The president continued, saying the “Chancellor of Germany” requested him how he – and by extension, the U.S. – would reply if, hypothetically, 1000’s of individuals stormed Britain’s Home of Commons and killed two “bobbies,” or British cops, to cease the election of a Prime Minister.
François Mitterrand was France’s president between 1981 and 1995. He died in 1996.
Right here’s the video:
JOE SPIRALS: “Proper after I used to be elected… I went to a G7 assembly […] Mitterrand from Germany, I imply from France, checked out me, and mentioned, uh… suh mentioned… You realize… What? Why? How lengthy you again for?”
Francois Mitterrand died in 1996.pic.twitter.com/0KBknQCHNh
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) February 5, 2024
Biden is principally seeing lifeless individuals once more. This isn’t OK.