President Joe Biden is going viral over an errant quip he made about profiting from the sale of state secrets.
A clip of the days-old remarks, shared to Twitter on Monday, prompted widespread mockery and criticism of Biden, who is known for regularly making gaffes and losing his train of thought while speaking.
“I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared,” Biden said on Friday during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Big Tech CEOs.
Laughter ensued, and Biden followed by saying, “Now, all kidding aside…,” before he went on to talk about how technology is transforming the lives of people around the world, the official White House transcript shows.
In a twist of sorts, it was technology that brought those comments back to haunt Biden. The “Research” Twitter account of the Republican National Committee posted a clip of the remarks on Monday.
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