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President Appears To Forget Name of Defense Secretary, Calls Him ‘The Black Man’

‘Look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, uh, the secretary of defense, the Black man.’

AP/Susan Walsh
Secretary Blinken, left, President Biden, and Secretary Austin, right, at the White House, October 2, 2023. AP/Susan Walsh
JOSEPH CURL
JOSEPH CURL

In a Wednesday interview with Black Entertainment Television, President Biden appeared to momentarily forget the name of his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, referring to him as “the Black man.”

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JOSEPH CURL
JOSEPH CURL

Mr. Curl covered the White House for a dozen years as a correspondent for the Washington Times. He also ran the Drudge Report for four years as the morning editor.

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