Former President Donald Trump claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden was high during the State of the Union address and said he would require him to take a drug test before the debate.
Trump and Biden agreed this week that the two will face off in two televised debates, first in June and then in September. Mr. Biden stipulated that the debate should be held without spectators and hosted by only a small number of networks, but Mr. Trump set his own conditions at the Minnesota Republican Party’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in St. Paul, Minnesota. presentation.
“By the way, I’m going to demand a drug test here,” Trump said.
“I don’t want him to come here like he did at the State of the Union,” Trump said. “He was high as a kite. I said, ‘Is that Joe in that beautiful room?’ (Related: ‘They want to see proof of life’: Bill Maher mocks Biden over Trump debate proposal)
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Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who is expected to help Biden prepare for the debate, did not do so. tell me Politico on whether drugs will be part of the preparations.
The two presidential debates will be held on June 27th on CNN and September 10th on ABC News. Mr. Biden challenged Mr. Trump to a debate on Wednesday. (Related: ‘They want to see proof of life’: Bill Maher mocks Biden over Trump debate suggestion)
“In 2020, Donald Trump lost to me twice in debates,” Biden said. “He hasn’t appeared in a debate since. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. I have an attitude. Good luck, I’ll do it twice.”
and Republican Congressman Greg Murphy of North Carolina, co-chair of the Republican Medical Association. Said On Thursday, Fox Business said Biden “must have gotten excited about something” during his State of the Union address, noting that Biden “screamed for two hours.”
“I absolutely believe that from a medical standpoint, and I have some good knowledge that something like that actually happened,” Murphy told Bartiromo. “He can’t stand, he can’t stand under the lights that long, and I don’t think he can hold concepts in his brain that long.”
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
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