Donald Trump DEMANDS ‘crooked’ Joe Biden take a drug test before the presidential debate: ‘I would also immediately agree to one’
Former President Donald Trump is demanding that ‘crooked’ Joe Biden take a drug test ahead of this week’s presidential debate, saying he would take one too.
The ex-president’s request comes after his former White House doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, who served under both Presidents Obama and Trump, asked Biden to undergo a drug screening ahead of the televised event.
According to a letter Jackson sent to Biden and his top White House doctor obtained by DailyMail.com, the Republican requested drug testing for the president before and after Thursday’s debate.
“I demand that you submit to a clinically validated drug test to reassure the American people that you are mentally fit to serve as President and that you are not dependent on performance-enhancing drugs to assist you in your debate performance or in your daily duties . basis to assist you in carrying out your duties as President of the United States.”
Former President Donald Trump called on Joe Biden to take a drug test ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate on CNN. His demand came after his former White House doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, sent a letter to Biden requesting a drug screening.
“This drug test should be administered both immediately before and after the debate and should include, but not be limited to, performance-enhancing drugs,” Jackson continued in his letter to Joe Biden and his top White House physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor. .
Jackson ramps up the pressure by specifically including Kevin O’Connor, the chief White House physician, in the note to the president and his entire Cabinet, telling the doctor how he has a duty to the American people to drug test to complete.
‘Dr. O’Connor, you are included in this letter to the President, and the entire Cabinet is copied, because you all have an obligation not only to President Biden, but to the President’s Cabinet and to the American people,” wrote Jackson. .
“The American people deserve transparency about both the president’s mental and physical well-being and capabilities. To date, you and the entire Office of the President have failed in that responsibility.”
After the letter was circulated, former President Donald Trump said he too would undergo a drug test.
‘DRUG TEST FOR COOKED JOE BIDEN??? I WOULD ALSO INSTANTLY AGREE!!!’ Trump posted this on his Truth Social app.
But this isn’t the first time the 45th president has agreed to a drug investigation ahead of a presidential debate.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, sent a letter to Biden and his top White House doctor on Monday demanding the president submit drug tests before and after this week’s debate
Jackson claims that a number of reports indicate Biden is declining mentally and that a drug test would convince voters that the president is not medicating the symptoms of his advancing age.
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with White House physician Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson, after his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, January 12, 2018
Jackson has called on Biden to resign due to his age, calling him ‘mentally incompetent’
In 2020, Trump said he would be willing to undergo drug screening ahead of the presidential debates, adding that Biden should do so as well.
Similarly, Trump said in 2016 that he would take a drug test if Hillary Clinton did too.
Trump, who just turned 78, also demanded Biden take a cognitive test last weekend, even while botching the name of his former doctor Ronny Jackson and repeatedly calling him “Ronny Johnson.”
Jackson’s letter to Biden and O’Connor comes after a scathing article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted concerns about the president’s age and competency from more than 40 sources close to the commander in chief.
However, Democrats were quick to call WSJ’s reporting “bulls***” and instead claimed Biden was “powerful” and “dynamic.”
It also comes after another bombshell report from the Justice Department, which found that Biden, who illegally withheld classified federal documents, should not be prosecuted by the agency because a jury would likely view the president as “a sympathetic , well-meaning, older man’. man with a bad memory” and would not side with the DOJ.
The DOJ’s assessment of Biden later prompted some lawmakers to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to fire the president for his incompetence.
Jackson has called on Biden to take multiple cognitive tests to prove he is fit for office
Jackson previously faced criticism for a 2018 CNN report that interviewed members of the White House medical unit.
They said his philosophy was to give out drugs without asking too many questions. The report details how White House officials were able to obtain the sleep drug Ambien or the antibiotic Z-Pak simply by asking for them.
Yet his concerns about Biden’s age are shared by many Americans.
Nearly half of likely voters expect President Joe Biden to make a series of embarrassing blurbs when he faces Donald Trump in their first debate this month.
About 49 percent think he will forget where he is and 41 percent said they expect him to walk on the wrong side of the stage, according to a new poll from JL Partners.
Another 40 percent think he will have trouble standing up during the CNN debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27.
Voters, on the other hand, expect a dominant performance from his Republican rival, and overwhelmingly expect him to emerge victorious.
About 79 percent expect Trump to interrupt Biden and 54 percent think his microphone will be turned off at some point.
The debate is scheduled for Thursday, June 27 at 9:00 PM and will last 90 minutes.