President Biden claimed he spoke with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, in 2021 as he recalled past conversations during fundraising events on Wednesday. The error marks the second of the week.
Biden attended three campaign receptions in New York on Wednesday afternoon, according to his schedule. At his second and third events, he told donors about the talks around January 6, 2021, at his first Group of Seven (G7) meeting as president, which took place in England in June of that year.
The president said the late German Chancellor Kohl asked him what he would say if he knew that 1,000 people stormed the British Parliament in an attempt to prevent the next prime minister from taking office.
The annual meeting was not attended by Kohl, who had been dead for four years, but by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Wednesday's mistake is similar to one Biden made on Sunday after claiming he spoke with François Mitterrand, a French president who died in 1996, at the same G7 meeting.
“I sat down and said, 'America is back,'” Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas. “And Mitterrand from Germany – I mean from France – looked at me and said…”
Biden then gathered his thoughts to complete the sentence: “Well, how long are you coming back?”
This week's incidents are just the latest in a series of puzzling comments from Biden involving dead people.
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President Biden made his second gaffe of the week Wednesday at campaign events in New York, claiming he spoke with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, at the 2021 G7 meeting. (Screenshot/Biden speech)
For example, Biden told supporters at a 2022 rally in Hallandale Beach, Florida, that he spoke with the man who “invented” insulin.
“How many of you know someone with diabetes who needs insulin?” Biden asked attendees. “Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin for diabetes?… It was invented by a man who didn't patent it because he wanted it to be available to everyone. I talked to him, okay?”
When Biden was born in 1942, insulin co-discoverers Frederick Banting and John Macleod were already dead. Charles Best and James Collip, two other co-discoverers of insulin, lived decades after Biden's birth, but were named on the patent, contradicting their claim.
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Not long before the Florida event, Biden was speaking at a White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health in September 2022, and searched the audience for the late Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car accident a month before.
“I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like… Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative… Jackie… Are you here? Where is Jackie?” Biden said as he looked for her. “I don't think so [inaudible] “She was going to be here.”
Biden also told a group of donors during his 2019 presidential campaign that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died in 2013, was worried about the United States under Trump. When people pointed out the mistake, Biden described it as a “Freudian slip” and said she was referring to British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Fox News Digital's Joe Schoffstall and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.
