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Joe Biden firmly defended himself after a report on Thursday, February 8, described him as an “old man with a bad memory.”
International – “I have a good memory”, he repeated during a press conference. Joe Biden made a strong defense of himself on Thursday, February 8, after a report called him a “Old man with bad memory”. Putting this false conclusion aside, according to him, the American President once again made an unfortunate mistake.
On Thursday afternoon, Robert Hure, the special prosecutor investigating his handling of classified documents, released a 388-page report that did not recommend charges against Joe Biden but noted his major vulnerability, his age and that. “He had a bad memory”.
Joe Biden Can’t remember when he was vice president.” Or the exact year of her eldest son Beau’s death, the prosecutor gave as an example.
Sisi, “President of Mexico”
Angered by this hard-of-hearing observation, the White House tenant responded to the press during a televised address, As you can see in the video below. “I mean well, I’m an old man and I know what I’m doing. I have no memory problems », he defended himself. He also became angry with the Special Rapporteur, roaring: “ How dare he? »
But after this affirmation, his memory failed again a few minutes later. Joe Biden gets confused with the names of the Egyptian and Mexican presidents.
As you can hear in the clip belowThe President of the United States actually said of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza: “The President of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open his gates on the southern border of the Gaza Strip to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid”.. He apparently wanted to talk about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His mistakes in the names of presidents have been seen frequently in recent days. On Wednesday, during a campaign fundraiser in New York, Joe Biden referred to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, when he meant Angela Merkel. The Guardian. Last Sunday, in Nevada, he confused François Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, with Emmanuel Macron.
Comments on Biden’s health are growing ahead of the US presidential election in November 2024. Facing them, Trump, determined to return to the White House, is taking advantage of his opponent’s repeated mistakes to win precious votes. Donald Trump easily won a caucus in Nevada on Thursday and thus gained new delegates in his race for the Republican nomination for the US presidential election, cementing his position as the overwhelming favorite.
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