Pete Buttigieg defends 80-year-old Biden for mixing up Iraq and Ukraine TWICE in 24 hours: He dismisses concerns about the president’s age – and says that ‘the only thing that really matters is ability to do his job”
- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended President Joe Biden’s blunders
- He was asked Wednesday night if Biden had confused Iraq and Ukraine
- Buttigieg said Biden is “simultaneously focused, on a big picture vision and very focused on details” when they are in the room together
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defended President Joe Biden for twice mistaking Iraq for Ukraine in 24 hours earlier this week.
Buttigieg appeared on Wednesday night’s newly rebranded CNN Primetime alongside Kaitlan Collins when asked about the back-to-back slip-ups.
Collins asked the 41-year-old former mayor what he would say to Americans concerned about the 80-year-old president’s “slips”.
“Well, I’d say I wish you could be in the room with him, as I often am, and see how he’s simultaneously focused on big vision and very focused on details,” Buttigieg replied.
Buttigieg then argued that Biden’s government had been “extraordinarily effective.”
“And one of the — honestly, one of the arguments I made back when I was running for president at an unusually young age, is that the only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job.” , Buttigieg added.
Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg (right) defended President Joe Biden for twice mistaking Iraq for Ukraine in 24 hours during a Wednesday night interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins (left) earlier this week.
Buttigieg announced his 2020 presidential candidacy at the age of 37.
He dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden after the current president convincingly won the South Carolina primary and ahead of Super Tuesday, allowing the former president to rally moderate Democratic support and eventual progressive nominee Senator Bernie Sanders to beat in the Democratic primary.
Biden announced his re-election for 2024 at the end of April.
This week he was at a fundraiser for Chevy Chase, Maryland, Chicago and New York City, among others.
At one of the fundraisers at Chevy Chase Tuesday night, Biden came on as a substitute in Iraq when he meant Ukraine.
“Think about it: If someone told you – and my staff weren’t so sure either – that we would be able to unite all of Europe to attack Iraq and fully unite NATO, they would “I told you it’s unlikely,” Biden said. “The only thing Putin was counting on was the division of NATO.”
Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House the next morning before leaving for Chicago, he made the same mistake again.
President Joe Biden mixed up Iraq and Ukraine for a second time on Wednesday morning while speaking to reporters on the South Lawn ahead of his trip to Chicaco
President Joe Biden went to Marine One carrying a cheat sheet with talking points about the “Vagner-Russia” conflict
The official White House transcript of one of Biden’s fundraisers Tuesday night in Chevy Chase, Maryland shows that he said “Iraq” and not “Ukraine.”
The president said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “absolutely” weakened by the weekend’s Wagner uprising, but added: “It’s hard to say how much that was the case.”
“He’s clearly losing the war in Iraq.” “He’s losing the war at home and has become something of a pariah around the world,” Biden said, referring to Ukraine.
Biden even had a cheat sheet in hand the second time he made the faux pas.
Photographers on the South Lawn captured a note card the President used to leave the house.
The card said “Daily News Summary” with the date.
It started with “Vagner-Russia” with the topics of conversation below.
“It was an internal Russian matter,” the talking points said. “Too soon to know.”