President Joe Biden ought to endure a drug check earlier than and after his upcoming CNN debate with former President Donald Trump, Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-TX) stated Sunday.
Jackson, who served as White Home doctor for Trump and former President Barack Obama, instructed Fox Information host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” that he plans to make a proper request.
“Tomorrow, I’m sending a letter to President Biden, his doctor, Dr. [Kevin] O’Connor, and I am CCing his total cupboard,” Jackson stated.
“It is embarrassing that I’ve to do that and as a former White Home doctor it is actually embarrassing to do one thing like that however we’ve got no selection primarily based on what is going on on,” he added.
Drug check Biden earlier than the controversy!
Will we see Sleepy Joe dwelling within the White Home basement, or jacked-up Joe who attended the State of the Union???
The American folks should know if their “President” is taking efficiency enhancing medicine!… pic.twitter.com/bAriC4LxaY
— Ronnie Jackson (@RonnieJacksonTX) June 23, 2024
Some Republicans have speculated whether or not Biden makes use of medicine to achieve a lift earlier than a efficiency. The White Home rejected such talks after Biden’s State of the Union tackle this yr.
“It is telling that Republican officers cannot cease declaring how scared they’re [the] the president’s State of the Union efficiency,” stated White Home spokesman Andrew Bates.
Trump, who has pushed for pre-debate drug testing prior to now, recommended at a marketing campaign cease in Philadelphia on Saturday that Biden would “come all jacked up” to face them subsequent week.
Jackson stated his newest sequence of letters “will now demand on behalf of hundreds of thousands of involved People that he undergo a drug check earlier than and after this debate.”
The congressman famous that he’s “significantly” excited about performance-enhancing medicine and opined that Biden didn’t seem his traditional self throughout his latest State of the Union tackle.
“He was on one thing else, there’s actually no technique to clarify that they drug him,” Jackson added.
Pressed to touch upon what medicines Biden could also be taking, Jackson stated Aricept is one which comes up usually.
“However there are all types of recent medicine which are particularly for Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, which trigger these cognitive issues that the president appears to be topic to,” he added.
“These medicine are on the market. They cope with the cognitive a part of it,” Jackson stated. “They attempt to make it the place he can assume extra straight and he isn’t as misplaced and confused.”
The congressman additionally talked about medicine “that truly simply enhance alertness, like Adderall and different amphetamine-type medicine, perhaps Provigil, issues like that.”
He continued, “After which there are a selection of medicines that attempt to take the sting off most of those cognitive issues.”
With Biden on the president’s retreat in Maryland to organize for the controversy, Jackson puzzled if the president’s aides had been working to see which system of drugs works finest.
“He can be at Camp David for a full week earlier than the controversy,” he stated. “A part of it’s in all probability testing getting the doses proper, as a result of they should deal with his cognition.”
Jackson ended the interview by saying that he would make a “harmful” selection if Biden had been drugged for the controversy.
“Each day, we see a Joe Biden who struggles to remain awake. He seems to be sleepy. He abuses his speech. He stumbles when he walks. He is getting these freezing episodes now,” she stated.
“So the American folks have to know what is going on on,” Jackson continued. “And our adversaries and our allies see that. And it is a nationwide safety challenge for us.”
