{"id":2248842,"date":"2024-05-20T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-ridiculous-gaffe-suggests-he-was-vp-during-covid-years-when-trump-was-president\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T19:59:02","slug":"biden-makes-ridiculous-gaffe-suggests-he-was-vp-during-covid-years-when-trump-was-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-ridiculous-gaffe-suggests-he-was-vp-during-covid-years-when-trump-was-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden mistakenly claims he served as VP during Trump&#8217;s presidency"},"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\">20<\/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-makes-ridiculous-gaffe-suggests-he-was-vp-during-covid-years-when-trump-was-president%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=2248842&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>During a Detroit\u2064 campaign event, President Biden mistakenly claimed he served as\u200d vice president during the\u2063 COVID\u200b pandemic, an error as it occurred\u200d after his term. This gaffe followed\u200b recent\u200c claims by his supporters.\u2063 The president\u2019s statement occurred while addressing members of the NAACP in \u200bthe presence of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. Biden served as\u200d Obama\u2019s vice president from 2009 to\u2063 2017. In Detroit, during a campaign event, President Biden erroneously stated he was vice president during the COVID pandemic, which\u2063 actually happened after his \u2064tenure. This\u2062 mistake comes\u200b amidst previous assertions by his supporters. The\u2064 misstatement \u200dtook place while Biden was speaking to \u2064the NAACP members alongside Detroit Mayor Mike\u200c Duggan. Biden \u200cwas Vice President under Obama from 2009 to 2017.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/johnathanjones\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/johnathanjones\/%20\"><span>Johnathan Jones<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 20, 2024 at 11:33am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>During a campaign event Sunday in Detroit, President Joe Biden claimed he was vice president during the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 a disaster that came nearly four years after Biden left office.<\/p>\n<p>The latest head-scratching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-something-different-bidens-latest-gaffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaffe<\/a> from the 81-year-old came days after many of Biden\u2019s supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-fires-back-fake-story-speech-made-biden-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> his presumed 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump, is mentally unfit to return to the White House for another term.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was addressing members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-judge-allows-new-court-mississippis-majority-black-capital-rejecting-naacp-request-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NAACP<\/a> in the presence of Democratic Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/20\/us-news\/biden-says-things-were-kinda-bad-when-he-was-vice-president-during-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The president then made an unfounded claim he had worked with Duggan to \u201cfix\u201d Detroit during an apparent reference to the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,\u201d he said in a clip that is circuiting on social media,<\/p>\n<p>Biden added, \u201cAnd, what happened was Barack [Obama] said to me, \u2018Go to Detroit \u2013 help fix it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: \u201cWhen I was vice president, things were kinda bad during the pandemic\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Biden was not vice president during the pandemic) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/McZXfjgr2u\">pic.twitter.com\/McZXfjgr2u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1792345714980258025?\">May 20, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-black-morehouse-students-turn-backs-biden-commencement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The president<\/a> then joked that Duggan had seen more of him than he would have wanted to.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you think Biden is mentally fit?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201dWell, the poor mayor \u2013 he\u2019s spent more time with me than he ever thought he\u2019s going to have to,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Duggan immediately stood up to shake Biden\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Biden served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-espn-commentator-stephen-smith-says-michelle-obama-beat-trump-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama\u2019s<\/a> vice president from January 2009 to January 2017. The COVID pandemic did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brown-university-infused-diversity-and-inclusion-into-hundreds-of-courses\/\" title=\"Brown University Infused Diversity And Inclusion Into Hundreds Of Courses\">impact global health<\/a>, finance and society until more than three years into Biden\u2019s short time as a private citizen from January 2017 until January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden was serving as vice president for eight years under Obama, the White House did navigate the H1N1 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-attacks-trump-stretching-truth-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cswine flu\u201d outbreak<\/a> in 2009-10.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Mike_Duggan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duggan<\/a> did not take office as Detroit\u2019s mayor until January 2014, three years after the health scare. Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/news\/story?id=4143798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bing<\/a> was the mayor of Detroit from May 2009 until he was succeeded by Duggan.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/04\/joe-biden-contain-h1n1-virus-232992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> noted when Biden was running for president in 2020 in the early weeks of the COVID pandemic, Biden\u2019s handling of the H1N1 outbreak was heavily criticized.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was accused of \u201cfearmongering\u201d when he broke with the rest of the Obama administration and warned Americans in a speech not to travel amid the public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go anywhere in confined places right now,\u201d Biden said, leading to a scramble from White House officials to repair the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Politico reported on the pushback from inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-obama-administration-official-says-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-absolutely-inspired-jihadists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Obama White House<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s pessimism contrasted sharply with the reassurances President Barack Obama had given \u2026 when he said there was no need to panic even as he declared a national health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a matter of hours, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew were summoned to the White House and assigned to clean up the mess Biden made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/vice-president-biden-travel-detroit-michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a White House archive<\/a>, Biden did travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lions-head-coach-responds-backlash-controversial-4th-decisions-ending-detroits-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit<\/a> in August 2009 but according to the news release, the then-VP was not in the city to discuss H1N1 infections.<\/p>\n<p>The news release from the White House stated, \u201cVice President Biden will travel to Detroit, MI, where he will deliver remarks on the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden hosted two events in Detroit on Sunday \u2013 one with black voters at a cafe and another at a convention center where he claimed he was vice president during the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/picture-gallery\/media\/photo\/2024\/05\/19\/president-joe-biden-visits-detroit-speaks-at-naacps-fight-for-freedom-fund-dinner\/73763252007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Detroit News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not publish a transcript of his remarks from the event with Duggan at Detroit\u2019s Huntington Place convention center.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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