White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snapped at a reporter this week when she was asked about President Joe Biden’s mental health after he said that he recently talked to a French president who has been dead for nearly three decades.
While delivering remarks in Las Vegas on Sunday, ahead of the Nevada primary this week, Biden hearkened back to a G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom and a gathering of NATO leaders that took place in June of 2021 during which a conversation about the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6 apparently came up.
“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…
