{"id":2289886,"date":"2024-07-06T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interview-disaster-biden-claims-to-have-put-nato-together-but-was-just-6-years-old-when-it-was-founded\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T15:56:18","slug":"interview-disaster-biden-claims-to-have-put-nato-together-but-was-just-6-years-old-when-it-was-founded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interview-disaster-biden-claims-to-have-put-nato-together-but-was-just-6-years-old-when-it-was-founded\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Disaster: Biden Claims to Have &#8216;Put NATO Together&#8217; but Was Just 6 Years Old When It Was Founded"},"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\">38<\/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%2Finterview-disaster-biden-claims-to-have-put-nato-together-but-was-just-6-years-old-when-it-was-founded%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=2289886&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>The summary discusses\u200d President Joe Biden&#8217;s \u2062recent interview with\u200d George\u2063 Stephanopoulos and highlights\u2064 some of the major issues that arose during the\u2064 conversation. \u2062The interview revealed Biden&#8217;s struggles to articulate his thoughts and \u2064his confusing statements, such as claiming he &#8220;put together\u200b NATO.&#8221; The article suggests \u200bthat Biden&#8217;s performance in the interview was not strong, especially when discussing his track record and future plans. \u200dAdditionally, the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-is-not-a-biden-administration-priority-defense-experts-examine-bidens-focus-shifting\/\" title=\"\u2018Defense Is Not A Biden Administration Priority\u2019: Defense Experts Examine Biden\u2019s Focus Shifting\">summary touches<\/a> on the implications of Biden&#8217;s statements regarding NATO and his overall suitability for leading the country.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 6, 2024 at 6:49am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s interview with George Stephanopoulos was better than his debate performance last Thursday, that much can be said. That was due to the fact that almost anything that wasn\u2019t the debate last Thursday would be better than the debate last Thursday. If those were the low expectations, that bar was cleared, scarcely.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/interview-biden-admits-cant-even-remember-watched-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was a disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take Biden\u2019s answer at the top of the interview when he was asked by George Stephanopoulos, ABC\u2019s lobber of softballs for the evening, if he knew how bad things were going during the debate. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/abc-news-anchor-george-stephanopoulos-exclusive-interview-biden\/story?id=111695695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, look. The whole way I prepared, nobody\u2019s fault, mine. Nobody\u2019s fault but mine. I, uh \u2014 I prepared what I usually would do sittin\u2019 down as I did come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized \u2014 \u2019bout partway through that, you know, all\u2013 I get quoted The New York Times had me down, at ten points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is, what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn\u2019t \u2014 I mean, the way the debate ran, not \u2014 my fault, no one else\u2019s fault, no one else\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hilary-clinton-says-voters-accept-reality-old-biden-vote-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four more years<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-one-biden-seems-lock-trying-hop-suv-media-will-call-cheap-fake-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four more years<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>However, if there was one moment that crystallized just how non-reassuring the results of Friday evening should be for team Biden, perhaps they ought to look later in the debate, when Stephanopoulos asked Biden to look toward the future and make the case for him for being the candidate for another four more years, and he responded in part by saying he \u201cput together NATO\u201d \u2014 an institution founded in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou talked a lot about your successes in \u2014 at the beginning of this interview. And\u2013 and I don\u2019t want to dispute that, I don\u2019t want to debate that,\u201d Stephanopoulos said at the outset of the question. (Because of course he didn\u2019t, which is why he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/stephanopoulos-goes-crazy-trump-attorney-points-obvious-manhattan-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chosen for this interview<\/a>. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut \u2014 as you know, elections are about the future, not the past,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey\u2019re about tomorrow, not yesterday. And the question on so many people\u2019s minds right now is, \u201cCan you serve effectively for the next four years?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden laughed and leaned forward \u2014 which is so seldom a good sign if you\u2019re an amateur Biden-ologist, because that\u2019s almost always a tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-losing-creepy-joe-bizarrely-leans-forward-whispers-reporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">something weird is about to happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge, I\u2019m the guy that put NATO together, the future,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one thought I could expand it. I\u2019m the guy that shut Putin down. No one thought could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2757\ufe0fJoe Biden admits he\u2019s \u201cthe guy\u201d who \u201cexpanded NATO\u201d to defeat Russia<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge, I\u2019m the guy that put NATO together. No one thought we could expand it. I\u2019m the guy who shut Putin down.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VnQAq8BsE9\">pic.twitter.com\/VnQAq8BsE9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotSpotHotSpot\/status\/1809389743307698376?\">July 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From NATO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/topics_67656.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>: \u201cThe foundations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were officially laid down on 4 April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty \u2026 The Washington Treaty \u2013 or North Atlantic Treaty \u2013 forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization \u2013 or NATO. The Treaty was signed in Washington D.C. on 4 April 1949 by 12 founding members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shock-wh-aides-admit-biden-dependably-engaged-25-percent-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-makes-true-feelings-on-trump-verdict-known-says-something-snapped-in-him\/\" title=\"Biden Reveals True Sentiments on Trump Verdict: Admits &#039;Something Changed\">senescent president<\/a><\/a>, was 6 years old then.<\/p>\n<p>But surely, I can hear you Bidenistas or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/red-state-ag-launches-investigation-left-wing-org-not-going-let-missourians-subject-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Matters for America<\/a> operatives combing through this article for bias saying, we can <em>intuit<\/em> what Joe Biden meant. He was able to bring NATO nations together to support a non-NATO nation which had been invaded by the primary antagonist of NATO \u2014 not called the \u201cNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization\u201d for nothing \u2014 Russia. More nations came into the NATO fold under Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>First, we cannot simply <em>intuit<\/em> what Joe Biden is saying anymore. He has not earned that presumption of clarity, not after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-bill-maher-calls-biden-hard-look-debate-says-election-trump-dominates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first adversarial debate<\/a> in four years revealed him to be a rambling, doddery, physically weak, cognitively withered caricature of himself that was far worse than anything we could anticipate in the controlled and cultivated environments of speeches and media appearances \u2014 and those were already bad, mind you, so bad the White House was taking to calling actual videos of the president acting like the president \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/panic-mode-kjp-scrambles-cover-biden-freezes-obama-says-videos-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cheap fakes<\/a>\u201d in the days and weeks preceding the debate disaster. (Funny how you don\u2019t hear that term tossed around <em>now<\/em>. But I digress, again.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I can probably <em>guess<\/em> at what the president is trying to get across \u2014 but the fact I even have to guess or something strikes viewers as this unusually bad is already a sign this interview was not the knock-it-out-of-the-park performance the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-suggests-psaki-should-not-take-questions-from-fox-news\/\" title=\"Don Lemon Suggests Psaki Should Not Take Questions From Fox News\">president needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, even if we grant the president the most coherent version of this answer from context, it still doesn\u2019t help his case.<\/p>\n<p>The president is trying to draw a contrast between himself and the former holder of the office \u2014 his opponent this November should the president still choose to keep running, Donald J. Trump \u2014 because Trump made the heinous mistake of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-blasted-germany-not-meeting-nato-spending-obligations-now-country-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisting NATO members live up to their obligations<\/a> by adequately funding their militaries instead of relying on the United States as the Daddy Warbucks of the joint.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of that has been proved by the events of the Biden administration in Europe, where Russian President Vladimir Putin again resumed his designs on subsuming more Ukrainian territory, this time by invading the country. Biden is <em>not<\/em> \u201cthe guy that shut Putin down\u201d \u2014 as evidenced by the fact that Russia now controls wide swaths of Ukraine and NATO aid is, at best, monetary and materiel chemotherapy that stops the Muscovite cancer from spreading further but which cannot completely eradicate it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-skips-big-nato-dinner-white-house-claims-many-days-work-row\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why is NATO expanding<\/a>? Because invading a NATO country automatically puts you in a state of war with <em>every<\/em> NATO country, by the nature of the treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Since Putin\u2019s larger designs on Europe, which began taking shape as it became clear the United States was overextended militarily and Biden was weakened due to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, became apparent, yes, more countries did join the alliance \u2026 for protection from the guy Biden claims to have \u201cshut down.\u201d (Finland joined in 2023 and Sweden in 2024.)<\/p>\n<p>So, this is the future of U.S. military strategy and our alliances, where Putin is invited to reassemble the former Soviet Union piecemeal by U.S. weakness and countries join NATO not because of the great strength of the alliance but because the kind of war invasion by Putin would provoke would be terminally problematic for Putin and the world, no matter how weak the West is. And we\u2019re expecting the guy who\u2019s responsible for this state of affairs to face off militarily not just against Vladimir Putin, but also Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Biden thinks of when he thinks of why he\u2019s the man for \u201cthe future\u201d of the country and the world. And that\u2019s assuming he didn\u2019t think that he was the guy who \u201cput together NATO\u201d \u2014 which is, strictly speaking, what he said.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to think that was out of the question \u2014 but alas, nothing is now. Either way, the answer is disqualifying.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marine-fails-to-report-for-duty-drops-off-the-grid-with-a-dead-phone-and-completely-emptied-bank-account\/\" title=\"Marine Goes Missing: No Contact, Dead Phone, Empty Bank Account\">lying leftist media<\/a> and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rep-anna-paulina-luna-scolds-dems-waving-ukrainian-flags-after-vote-put-those-damn-flags-away\/\" title=\"Video: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Criticizes Democrats Waving Ukrainian Flags - &#039;Remove Those Flags!\">desperately needed truth<\/a> to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with George Stephanopoulos was an improvement from his debate performance, which was widely criticized. However, there were still moments in the interview that raised concerns about Biden&#8217;s ability to lead effectively. One such moment was when Biden claimed to have &#8220;put together NATO,&#8221; a claim that is factually inaccurate given that NATO was established in 1949, when Biden was just a child. Even if we try to interpret Biden&#8217;s statement in a more favorable light, it still does not reflect well on his leadership abilities. Additionally, Biden&#8217;s assertion that he &#8220;shut Putin down&#8221; is also questionable, considering Russia&#8217;s recent invasion of Ukraine. Overall, Biden&#8217;s interview did not inspire confidence in his leadership capabilities, especially in the realm of foreign policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2289887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture-36.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,34067,7624],"class_list":["post-2289886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-interview-disaster","tag-nato"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture-36.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289886","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}