Befuddled Biden gives nonsensical response when asked about strikes in Yemen



Democratic President Joe Biden didn't ease concerns about his mental capacity when asked to comment about military strikes in Yemen.

'Never forget the Democratic Party hid this. Kamala hid this.'

Biden shuffled over to reporters shouting questions at him while he was boarding Air Force One on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday. He responded to a reporter asking him to comment about Israeli strikes on sites controlled by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.

“I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike,” Biden said.

The president had apparently mixed up the Yemeni strikes with a looming union strike by dock workers against automation. The massive strike is scheduled to begin Monday at midnight and includes about 45,000 dock workers at ports on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast.

Video of the interaction was posted to social media by the Republican Party, where it garnered more than 2.7 million views. Many pounced on the incident to mock and ridicule Biden.

"Listen to this. He should be feeding pigeons on a park bench. We have no president," replied radio host Gerry Callahan.

"The Houthi Local 1645 is known to be the toughest union to negotiate with," joked commentator Joel Petlin.

"You’re kidding. It’s funny but it’s also very scary. Never forget the Democratic Party hid this. Kamala hid this," read another critical tweet.

Others defended Biden by pointing out the noise on the tarmac might have prevented him from hearing the question clearly.

The union Biden may have been referring to is demanding a total ban on automation on gates, trucks, and cranes. The strike could cost billions depending on how long it lasts, and Biden has the power under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to suspend the strike. However, he has signaled that he is unlikely to do so.

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Radio host calls out White House for claiming KJP's dramatic hang-up was falsified — and he brings the receipts



A local North Carolina radio host is calling out the White House.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly ended an interview with WBT radio host Mark Garrison for asking if President Joe Biden is suffering from dementia. Jean-Pierre called the question "incredibly offensive" and "incredibly insulting," and she demanded Garrison ask her a different question.

When Garrison complied, the press secretary rushed through her answer before ending the interview.

Audio of the exchange ends with a dial tone — purportedly from Jean-Pierre's phone — and shock from the radio host that Jean-Pierre hung up.

"She hung up," Garrison said.

In a statement on Wednesday, the White House accused the radio station of manufacturing a fake controversy.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said:

As she often does when the President travels, Karine had multiple back-to-back interviews with radio stations who were each offered seven minutes. Once the agreed-upon time was over, she called into the next interview so everyone could get their full time. This particular station chose not to air the full interview and instead artificially attached a sound effect that our phones do not make when calls end.

But, according to Garrison, that's not true.

"The White House assertion that we added a sound effect is nonsense. When she hung up, the phone noise was purely from their end," he said.

Garrison, moreover, provided the Daily Caller with a copy of the raw audio. That audio includes the dial tone, proving the radio station did not insert the tone, according to the outlet.

In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday, Garrison reaffirmed the audio was not edited.

"We don't add sound effects to news stories. When she hit the button to disconnect, we got a dial tone. We didn't add any drama to it," he said. "It was very clear when she hung up that she was not happy."

Garrison, meanwhile, told Ingraham the unedited audio is the clip uploaded to their website (it is embedded above).

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