{"id":1722805,"date":"2022-11-03T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722805"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:52:43","slug":"latest-gaffes-reignite-questions-about-bidens-mental-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-gaffes-reignite-questions-about-bidens-mental-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Gaffes Reignite Questions About Biden\u2019s Mental Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flatest-gaffes-reignite-questions-about-bidens-mental-fitness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-08\/Joe%20Biden.jpg?h=a3170992&#038;itok=j4l1Oz0I\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Biden&#8217;s latest public gaffes are reigniting long-held concerns about his cognitive acuity and mental fitness for the highest office in the land, one to which Biden has indicated he&#8217;ll seek reelection in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>While campaigning in Florida on Tuesday, Biden, who turns 80 this month, delivered a speech full of errors that ended up overshadowing his message.<\/p>\n<p>First, Biden described inflation, which has soared to its highest levels in four decades, in a disjointed, scarcely comprehensible way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I call inflation,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1587527422207033346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1587527422207033346%7Ctwgr%5E92009e73a43fe4f83a51d85ed0924694f5658d42%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fbidens-gaffe-filled-speech-sparks-criticism-1756156\">said<\/a>. &#8220;The end of the month. What you have left. You have no money. That&#8217;s inflation. What&#8217;s, what do you, the things you need. Are they going up? They are. They are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden explained the cause of inflation by pointing to the &#8220;war in Iraq&#8221; before correcting himself to say Ukraine. He then explained he mentioned Iraq because &#8220;that&#8217;s where [his] son died&#8221; while deployed there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia&#8217;s doing \u2014 excuse me, the war in Ukraine,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/1587524435925417989\">said<\/a> Biden. &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking about Iraq because that&#8217;s where my son died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of Biden&#8217;s sons, Beau, did serve in Iraq. However, he died of brain cancer six years after his deployment ended. (Biden noted the actual circumstances of his son&#8217;s death shortly afterward while discussing the high cost of the drugs needed to treat his condition.)<\/p>\n<p>At the same campaign event meant to rally Democrats to go to the polls, Biden also claimed he spoke to the man who &#8220;invented&#8221; insulin, despite the men who discovered it dying before the president was born.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many of you know somebody with diabetes, and needs insulin?&#8221; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1587525863729504262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1587525863729504262%7Ctwgr%5E92009e73a43fe4f83a51d85ed0924694f5658d42%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fbidens-gaffe-filled-speech-sparks-criticism-1756156\">asked<\/a> the crowd. &#8220;Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? &#8230; It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, OK?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frederick Banting and professor John James Richard Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for their 1921 discovery of insulin, a hormone produced in the body. Both men declined to put their name on the insulin patent.<\/p>\n<p>Banting died in 1941, and Macleod in 1935. Biden was born in 1942.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible the president was referring to two other men involved in the discovery of insulin \u2014 James Collip, a PhD biochemist, and Charles Best, a medical student \u2014 who died in 1965 and 1978, respectively. They transferred the patent rights to the University of Toronto for $1, believing insulin should be made as widely available as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was touting how the Democrat-backed Inflation Reduction Act, which he supported and signed into law, caps the cost on insulin at $35.<\/p>\n<p>During his remarks, Biden also mistakenly referred to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) as &#8220;senator&#8221; and to Hurricane Ian, which recently wreaked havoc across Florida, as &#8220;Hurricane Ivan,&#8221; which caused significant damage in the Caribbean and made landfall in Alabama in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida speech came one day after Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-viral-blunder-54-states-gaffe-video-viral-john-fetterman-latest-1755703\">said<\/a> the U.S. has &#8220;54 states&#8221; instead of 50 during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s string of gaffes caused many observers to question his mental fitness for office and call for the president to take a cognitive test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A confused Biden thinks we have 54 states, and he&#8217;s forgotten AGAIN how his son passed away, saying he died in Iraq. This is false. He died years later due to cancer,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonnyJacksonTX\/status\/1587566782721695744\">tweeted<\/a> Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who served as a White House doctor for years and as the physician to the president under both Donald Trump and Barack Obama. &#8220;If Biden&#8217;s forgotten moments in his life like this, he&#8217;s not fit to lead. Take a COGNITIVE TEST or RESIGN NOW!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) similarly expressed concern about Biden&#8217;s mental health, adding that she joined Jackson in signing a letter asking why the public hasn&#8217;t seen a cognitive test for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we should be very concerned,&#8221; Tenney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HUCSm_yNoX8\">told<\/a> Newsmax, questioning why Biden&#8217;s team is letting him do public events and interviews. &#8220;This is just a continued pattern. It&#8217;s daily. He doesn&#8217;t even know what he&#8217;s talking about. It&#8217;s obvious that he&#8217;s got issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden has recently made several gaffes similar to those in his Florida speech.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1585745695729803265\">said<\/a> last week, for example, that the price of gas per gallon was &#8220;over $5 when I took office,&#8221; despite it being $2.39 on Biden&#8217;s Inauguration Day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/28\/politics\/fact-check-biden-gas-prices\">according<\/a> to the American Automobile Association.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/white-house\/biden-claims-he-got-student-loan-forgiveness-passed-vote-or-two\">claimed<\/a> his student loan forgiveness plan &#8220;passed by a vote or two,&#8221; although Congress never voted on the plan as it was an executive action announced by the president.<\/p>\n<p>In one particularly high-profile episode in September, Biden was speaking at a White House conference and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/03\/wheres-jackie-walorskis-mom-tells-biden-in-heaven-as-he-says-sorry-for-gaffe\/\">asked<\/a> for Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), who wasn&#8217;t there because she had died in a car crash less than two months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond blunders with his words, Biden&#8217;s presidency has been highlighted by several instances of appearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-viral-video-stage-exit-lost-confused-pittsburgh-blunder-awkward-1753934\">lost<\/a> or confused at public events. One day after asking for Walorski, for example, Biden appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilkowMajority\/status\/1575550567430356992\">walk away<\/a> from the microphone at FEMA&#8217;s National Response Coordination Center prematurely, leaving FEMA Director Deanne Criswell and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas calling after him, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Americans are concerned about Biden&#8217;s mental health, according to recent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/11\/majority-of-americans-concerned-about-bidens-mental-health-poll\/\">polling<\/a>, which has shown a growing number of Democrats \u2014 in some cases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/democrats-join-rest-in-questioning-bidens-mental-health\">even a majority<\/a> \u2014 also expressing concern.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, the Hill published an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3714038-is-a-25th-amendment-removal-in-joe-bidens-future\/\">opinion piece<\/a> suggesting Biden might be removed from office under the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/essay\/amdt25-1\/ALDE_00001013\/#:~:text=Twenty%2DFifth%20Amendment%2C%20Section%201,Vice%20President%20shall%20become%20President.\">25th Amendment<\/a>, which can be invoked when a president is considered unable to carry out his duties as commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We frequently see him [Biden], after he has delivered a speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11338841\/Biden-struggle-getting-stage-Pittsburgh-rally.html\">wander off as if he doesn&#8217;t know where he is<\/a> or where he&#8217;s supposed to go,&#8221; wrote Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the pro-limited government think tank, the Institute for Policy Innovation. &#8220;Someone hurries over and takes his arm and points him in the right direction. &#8220;At times he&#8217;s lucid and in control, but at other times he seems baffled and confused. It&#8217;s not unusual to see this behavior in older people, and Biden turns 80 this month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matthews added, &#8220;If that is indeed mental decline we&#8217;re seeing, it will likely get worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/21\/politics\/biden-2024-intention-reelection\">said<\/a> his &#8220;intention&#8221; is to run again for the White House. However, a majority of Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3660393-majority-of-democrats-want-candidate-other-than-biden-in-2024-poll\/\">don&#8217;t want<\/a> Biden to seek reelection in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/poll-73-college-democrats-dont-want-biden-run-2024-rcna43766\">according<\/a> to recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/26\/politics\/cnn-poll-biden-2024\/index.html\">polling<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear what role concerns over mental health play in those results.<\/p>\n<p>The White House didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment for this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden&#8217;s latest public gaffes are reigniting long-held concerns about his cognitive acuity and mental fitness for the highest office in the land, one to which Biden has indicated he&#8217;ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}