From The Hill:
“He literally had not been aware of what had transpired,” Kerry said in an interview with French broadcaster BFMTV that aired Monday.”
More proof “Dementia Joe” Biden has lost it. Instead of aides, "Dementia Joe” has “handlers” for governing and “orderlies” to care for his personal needs like changing his “Depends.” Americans deserve to know who is the “head handler” shadow President really making decisions. Biden is simply the useful fool they roll out to stumble through reading off a teleprompter. Let’s all just hope the "Head Handler" pulling the strings isn’t that kid masquerading as Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. The only thing worse would be if “Kackling Kamala” Harris were to be calling the shots.
The Unedited Hill Article:
Kerry: Biden 'had not
been fully aware' of submarine deal's impact on France
BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 10/05/21 02:06 PM EDT
Kerry: Biden 'had not
been fully aware' of submarine deal's impact on France
President Biden “had not been fully aware” of the negative impact a U.S. submarine deal between the United Kingdom and Australia had on France after it was announced, according to John Kerry the special presidential envoy for climate.
“He literally had not been aware of what had transpired,” Kerry said in an interview with French broadcaster BFMTV that aired Monday.
France became outraged last month after the Biden administration revealed a submarine deal between the U.S., U.K. and Australian governments, which sidelined a separate $40 billion submarine deal that France formed with Australia in 2016.
In response, France angrily canceled a planned gala in Washington, D.C., and temporarily recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia.
Kerry said Biden became aware of the situation after he asked the former Secretary of State what had transpired.
“I don’t want to go into the details of it, but suffice to say…the president is very committed to strengthening the relationship and making sure that this is a small event of the past and moving on to the much more important future,” Kerry said.
“We have a
relationship with France that is so much bigger than this moment.”
Kerry, who spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, said the two countries understand they “have so much to work on.”
“I’m absolutely confident that the bigger issues we have to work on about nuclear weapons, about cyber warfare, about climate…. We have a lot of work to do and we can’t get lost in a momentary event that I think we will get past very quickly.”
Kerry gave the interview prior to a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Macron on Tuesday, when the two sides discussed ways to move forward from the snub, including possible U.S.-French cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and other regions.
John Kerry: Biden 'literally, literally' had no clue about nuclear deal
Becket Adams 19 hrs ago
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Diplomacy is back, baby.
President Joe Biden "literally" had no idea Washington’s secretive nuclear technology pact with the U.K. and Australia went over poorly in France, according to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
In fact, Kerry alleged this week in an interview with the French news channel BFM TV, he personally had to bring the president up to speed on a diplomatic fiasco that saw the French government recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. for the first time in history.
His remarks, which were flagged Tuesday by National Review’s Jim Geraghty, came amid a larger conversation about America’s long-standing relationship with France.
Kerry was asked by his interviewer to address those who consider France’s exclusion from the nuclear technology pact a betrayal of its friendship with the U.S. Kerry was also asked what he says to reassure the French people of the strength of the relationship between France and the U.S.
The finalized version of the nuclear pact was not a betrayal, Kerry responded. Rather, he added, it was merely a lack of proper communication, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken already made clear.
“President Biden asked me about it, and I told him, and expressed—” Kerry said, when the interviewer, surprised, interrupted him.
“You told Joe Biden that it was not right?”
“He asked me,” Kerry said. “He said, ‘What’s the situation?’ and I explained exactly, uh—he was, he had not been aware of that, he literally, literally had not been aware of what had transpired.”
If he’s telling the truth, it means the president of the United States had no idea France, one of America’s oldest allies, was incensed when it learned it didn’t make the cut for the U.S.'s nuke deal with the U.K. and Australia. And not just a little angry. France was so angry, in fact, it recalled its ambassadors to the U.S., an unprecedented and not-at-all-subtle act meant to express outrage and extreme disappointment.
And Biden apparently didn’t know about any of this? It took a briefing from his climate envoy to make him aware of the situation on the other side of the Atlantic?
“I don’t want to go into the details of it,” Kerry continued, “but suffice it to say, that that the president — my president is very committed to, um, strengthening the relationship and making sure that this is a small event of the past and moving on to the much more important future.”
So, who is actually in charge over there in the Oval Office? Because a growing number of anecdotes suggest that Biden is either out of the loop or being keyed into important events long after the fact.
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