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Biden's Latest Gaffe Is Another Major Clue He Has Dementia

Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich  |  September 28, 2022 1:00 PM

UPDATE: The White House is spinning the situation this way: 

***Original post***

Speaking to the crowd during a White House event on hunger, nutrition and health Wednesday morning, President Joe Biden asked a number of times where "Jackie" was. He was referring to Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, who was killed in a car accident with two staffers earlier this year. 

Biden made the statement after a tribute to Walorski, who dedicated her life to the issue, was played at the event.

Further, Biden issued a statement in August about Walorski after she died and ordered the flags at the White House to be flown at half-mast.

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"Jill and I are shocked and saddened by the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana along with two members of her staff in a car accident today in Indiana. Born in her beloved South Bend as the daughter of a meat-cutter and firefighter, she spent a lifetime serving the community that she grew up in – as a journalist, a nonprofit director, a state legislator, and eventually as a Member of Congress for the past nine and half years," Biden said in a statement released by the White House Press Office. "We may have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served. She also served as co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, and my team and I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America."

"We send our deepest condolences to her husband, Dean, to the families of her staff members, Zachery Potts and Emma Thomson, who lost their lives in public service, and to the people of Indiana’s Second District who lost a representative who was one of their own," he continued.

Two weeks ago, legislation naming a Veterans Affairs clinic in Indiana after Walorski landed on Biden's desk for signature.