Article originally appeared on dailycaller.com.
President Joe Biden reportedly skipped out on a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022 to go to bed early, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
German officials reportedly planned for the president to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a June Group of Seven summit, though the foreign aides made the meeting early evening as they had become aware that Biden gets “fatigued” at night, sources told the WSJ. The president never showed up to the meeting and instead, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in his place, telling the chancellor and his aides that Biden had gone to bed, officials told the outlet.
“Secretary Blinken never said that or anything like it,” Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, told the WSJ. Ahead of the meeting, the White House had “indicated early” that they would not be attending the …
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