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Jacob Phillips

Joe Biden confuses Angela Merkel with dead German chancellor in latest gaffe

US President Joe Biden has confused Angela Merkel with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, in his latest gaffe.

Biden mistakenly referred to a conversation he had with Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with Kohl, who died in 2017, on Wednesday night.

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