{"id":2171126,"date":"2024-02-08T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bungles-history-again-says-he-spoke-with-dead-german-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:56:02","slug":"biden-bungles-history-again-says-he-spoke-with-dead-german-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bungles-history-again-says-he-spoke-with-dead-german-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Bungles History Again, Says He Spoke With Dead German Chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-bungles-history-again-says-he-spoke-with-dead-german-chancellor%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=2171126&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--><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Joe Biden committed his second historical bungle this week, saying on Wednesday he had spoken with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2021.\u00a0Kohl died in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the mistake while telling a group of donors about his first Group of Seven event back in 2021. The Group of Seven is a meet up of leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFirst got elected president I went to a G7 meeting with seven heads of state in Europe and I sat down and said America\u2019s back,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd the president of France looked at me and said \u2014 for how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd I never thought of it this way,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cAnd then Helmut Kohl of Germany looked at me and said, \u2018What would you say Mr. President if you picked up the London Times tomorrow morning and learned there\u2019s 1000 broken down the doors of the British parliament. Killed some [inaudible] on the way in, to deny the next prime minister to take office.\u2019 And you think, what would we think?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actual German chancellor at the time was Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a later event the same day, Biden reiterated that he had spoken with Kohl at the meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QcoZYDwVeK\">pic.twitter.com\/QcoZYDwVeK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1755421981145465288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, Biden referenced the 2021 G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom and a gathering of NATO leaders that took place\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/biden-g7-summit-updates-06-13-2021\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in June of 2021<\/a>\u00a0in which a conversation about the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6 apparently came up.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI sat down and I said, \u2018America\u2019s back\u2019 and Mitterrand from Germany \u2014 I mean from France looked at me and said, \u2018You know why \u2014 how long you back for?&#8217;\u201d Biden recalled, invoking Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, the former president of France,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaheemKassam\/status\/1754606767898849444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a widely shared post<\/a>\u00a0to X by National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam along with a clip of the remarks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Joe Biden says he recently met with \u201cMitterand from Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitterand was the FRENCH President between 1981 and 1995.<\/p>\n<p>He also died in 1996. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W0YPBDp69n\">pic.twitter.com\/W0YPBDp69n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaheemKassam\/status\/1754606767898849444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A glaring issue with that recollection is that Mitterrand, who served as president of France from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20210510-an-extraordinary-politician-fran%C3%A7ois-mitterrand-s-presidential-victory-40-years-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1981 to 1995<\/a>, has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1996\/01\/09\/francois-mitterrand-dead-at-age-79\/3dae3670-8d49-43ae-9de1-d95e138af6ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dead since 1996<\/a>\u00a0\u2014roughly 25 years earlier. At the time of the G-7 meeting in 2021, Emmanuel Macron was president of France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-claims-he-met-with-frances-mitterrand-in-2021-theres-just-one-problem\">Biden Claims He Met With France\u2019s Mitterrand In 2021. There\u2019s Just One Problem.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden committed his second historical bungle this week, saying on Wednesday he had spoken with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2021.\u00a0Kohl died in 2017. Biden made the mistake while telling a group of donors about his first Group of Seven event back in 2021. 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