Joe Biden appeared to confuse NATO with Ukraine on Saturday as he called on House of Representative members to return to the capital to vote on a bill that includes further funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Speaking to reporters in Delaware, the president said: “The idea that we’re going to walk away from Ukraine, the idea that we’re going to begin to let NATO split is totally against the interests of the United States of America, and it’s against our word we’ve given since all the way back to Eisenhower.
“So it’s about time we make sure Congress come home and pass the legislation funding NATO.”
The Republican National Committee pounced on Biden’s latest apparent mix-up, with the account RNC Research posting a clip of the gaffe on X, formerly Twitter, writing: “Ukraine isn’t in NATO — neither are Israel and Taiwan.”
Biden’s comments come after the bipartisan bill, that would provide $95.3 billion in funding for the two nations, as well as Taiwan, was passed by the Senate this week.
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But the House of Representatives began a two-week break on Thursday and Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted the House won’t “rush” to pass it, according to reports.
Biden’s mental fitness has come under scrutiny following Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on the 81-year-old’s mishandling of classified documents last week, in which Hur claimed the president had a “poor memory.”
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote in the report, as he explained Biden would not face any charges.
Biden called a press conference to address the claims and insisted his memory is “fine” but mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt during comments about the humanitarian crisis raging in the Gaza Strip.
Former President and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, has also come under scrutiny for various gaffes, and recently appeared to confuse Republican nomination rival Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Paul Quirk, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, claims Trump’s recent verbal stumbles have shown that his mental decline is “more apparent” than Biden’s.
The academic told Newsweek: “The legitimate concern about Biden’s age is that by the end of a second term, he would be almost five years older than he is now.
“There is obvious potential for serious cognitive failure by then. And if it occurred, the real danger is that Biden would fail to recognize it, and refuse to let his vice president take over.
“From the standpoint of the campaign, Biden’s age should be less of an issue than Trump’s more apparent cognitive decline – displayed in slurred speech and gross, repeated errors in one campaign rally after another.”
Biden’s aides have insisted the President remains sharp and engaged, while Trump has claimed he purposely conflated Pelosi and Haley, and his sarcasm was willfully misinterpreted by the media.
