Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Friday how a private conversation he once had with President Joe Biden nearly a year earlier revealed that the president’s memory was failing.
“He has not been in charge for some time — and I know this by personal observation, and now the whole world knows it, and it’s been very concerning to me,” Johnson said in an “Honestly” podcast interview with The Free Press’s founder and editor, Bari Weiss.
Johnson confirmed a June 2024 Wall Street Journal report utilizing unnamed sources who described how the speaker reacted to Biden’s state during a late February 2024 White House meeting involving sending military aid to Ukraine.
Johnson privately expressed concern to Biden on the sidelines of the meeting that Biden’s freezing of U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) — reportedly to review the U.S.’s status as…
