Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996
By: Marianne Williamson (Yahoo News)
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President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary in Nevada.
US President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Pearson Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.
Biden recounted a story he has told many times during his presidency, about a meeting he had with French President Emmanuel Macron during a G7 meeting in England, some months after Biden had taken over the White House.
"I sat down and I said, 'America's back,'" Biden recalled. "And Mitterrand from Germany - I mean from France - looked at me and said…"
Biden appeared to trail off before collecting his thoughts to finish the sentence: "Well, how long are you back for?"
The president continued, saying the "Chancellor of Germany" asked him how he - and by extension, the U.S. - would respond if, hypothetically, thousands of people stormed Britain's House of Commons and killed two "bobbies," or British police officers, to stop the election of a Prime Minister.
Francois Mitterrand was France's president between 1981 and 1995. He died in 1996.
A portrait of French President Francois Mitterrand during his visit to Saint Benoit in Reunion on February 9, 1988.
In Tuesday's Nevada Democratic presidential primary, Biden faces only token opposition from author Marianne Williamson and a few relatively unknown challengers. He won Nevada in November 2020 by fewer than 3 percentage points. But he came to Nevada to rouse voters for the fall campaign as well.
The state known largely for its casino and hospitality industries is synonymous with split-ticket, hard-to-predict results. It has a transient, working-class population and large Latino, Filipino and Chinese American and Black communities. Nevada has a stark rural-urban divide, with more than 88% of active registered voters — and much of its political power — in the two most populous counties, which include the Las Vegas and Reno metro areas.
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So Geriatric Joe meeting dead people. Again. I wonder how the left will spin this one.
And it's who I thought it would be.
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Is that all you have?
This isn't the first time Brandon has tried to channel the dead.
Sundowners.
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Hidin Biden is mentally and physically unfit to be president. Every single person know it, some just need to pretend otherwise
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But Trruuummmmppppp!!!!!!
It is all Democrats have left to defend Brandon.
He is the first person I've ever seen turn into a human Roomba at the end of every speech. And somehow we are supposed to think he's "fit for office".
Every time he tries to speak, things like this happen.
Biden is so close to death, maybe he actually is talking to dead people.
This guy should not be president. Even if he had gotten Macron’s name right, he looks and sounds like a man on his death bed, slipping in and out of consciousness. The crowd damned near gave him a heart attack when they booed what he said about Trump. I bet he peed himself a little.
Cut Joe a break, Mitterrand sounds a lot like Macron and they are both French. My elderly mother-in-law get the names of her daughters mixed up.
During the same fund raising tour, he also stated that he talked to German Chancellor Kohl which would have been difficult as Kohl died in 2017.
Wonder if Biden is hyper-sensitive to the color red?