According to Bloomberg, he spoke about his conversation with Kohl at a fundraising event in New York.
“And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said: “What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and found out that a thousand people broke down the doors of the British Parliament, killing several policemen along the way, to prevent the Prime Minister from taking office ", Biden's agency quotes.
It is clarified that he later repeated this story again, again mentioning the chancellor who died in 2017, at another event.
It is assumed that Biden in his stories could have confused the deceased Kohl with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Earlier, Biden said at a meeting with voters in Las Vegas that he had recently communicated with French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.