President Biden appeared to forget that Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) was killed in a car accident a month ago, calling her out in a speech on Wednesday and searching her out even though he paid official tribute to the congresswoman after her death.
(Video Credit: Fox News)
The horrendous gaffe was made as Biden appeared at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in Washington. Walorski was one of four lawmakers who sponsored legislation pushing for the conference last year but by all accounts, she did not come back from the great beyond to make sure it went through.
Biden attempted to give her a shout-out while speaking, along with others he was recognizing.
“I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like … Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative … Jackie, Jackie are you here?” Biden called out looking for Walorski. “I think she was going to be here to help make this a reality.”
“She must not be here,” he noted.
As if we needed further proof that Biden isn’t making decisions and has no idea what his staff is actually doing. https://t.co/DBic9AmVTa
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 28, 2022
A tribute was scheduled for Walorski at the event. Biden was not there for it.
The congresswoman, 58, was killed in a tragic car accident with two of her staffers in August. Her communications director Emma Thomson, 28, and district director Zachary Potts, 27, were both killed in the crash on Aug. 3. Potts was driving at the time and turned into oncoming traffic, according to police.
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office at first thought that a passenger car had entered Walorski’s lane and crashed with her vehicle head-on. Later, it was determined that it was, in fact, Walorski’s vehicle that entered the wrong lane causing the deadly collision.
“The sole occupant of the northbound vehicle, Edith Schmucker, 56, Nappanee, Indiana, was pronounced deceased at the scene,” the sheriff’s department told Fox News Digital in August.
Biden released a statement on Walorski’s passing at the time of her death and announced that White House flags would fly at half-staff in her honor. But he seems to have forgotten that he did so.
How is this not another massive red flag? This is why the WH won't make Biden's doctor available for questioning.
Just last month Biden officially acknowledged Walorski's death & ordered flags at half-mast in her honor. A bill renaming a VA hospital after her is on his desk. https://t.co/eV8LthWPAL
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 28, 2022
Biden said at the time of Walorski’s death, “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,” he added.
White House comms team when Biden asks everyone where a dead congresswoman is pic.twitter.com/qaZiF3O3xL
— Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) September 28, 2022
“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,” the president continued.
“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,” Biden concluded in August.
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