After yet another slip-up by Biden, this time claiming to have conversed with a deceased French president from decades ago, a reporter pressed Jean-Pierre on the matter. However, her response lacked any composure as she snapped at the reporter.
It's entirely valid to question Biden's mental acuity, particularly given the frequency of his public speaking blunders. Yet, instead of addressing the issue, Jean-Pierre tersely dismissed the reporter with, "I’m not even gonna go down that rabbit hole with you, sir."
Evidently, this topic remains touchy within the confines of the White House.
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KJP refuses to explain Joe Biden's remarks that he recently met with a French president who died in 1996:
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) February 6, 2024
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From The Daily Wire:
“I sat down and I said, ‘America’s back’ and Mitterrand from Germany — I mean from France looked at me and said, ‘You know why — how long you back for?'” Biden recalled, invoking François Mitterrand, the former president of France.
A glaring issue with that recollection is that Mitterrand, who served as president of France from 1981 to 1995, has been dead since 1996. At the time of the G-7 meeting in 2021, Emmanuel Macron was president of France.
A reporter asked Jean-Pierre on Tuesday: “And how is President Biden ever going to convince the three quarters of voters who are worried about his physical and mental health that he is okay even though in Las Vegas he told a story about recently talking to a French president who died in 1996?”
“I’m not even gonna go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” she responded.
“What is the rabbit hole?” the reporter fired back. “He said he talked to [former French President] Mitterrand and–”
“You saw the president in Vegas, in California,” she responded. “You’ve seen the President in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there.”