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President Joe Biden headed to Walter Reed Medical Center for his annual exam on Thursday amid the expected announcement of his 2024 campaign.
“The annual exam is a physical evaluation of the president, but some Republicans are demanding that he receive a cognitive exam, as well, pushing claims he is not mentally fit for office. It comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is in Munich, Germany for the 2023 Munich Security Conference. The president, who was pictured holding a piece of paper as he left the White House to board Marine One, will be evaluated by the White House physician Colonel Kevin O’Connor. Some experts, however, are concerned that the results of his physical will be ‘sugar coated,’ and won’t address some real concerns regarding his cognition and memory,” The Daily Mail reported.
Former White House doctor and Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson said he believed that President Joe Biden needed a mental evaluation.
Rep. Jackson called for a cognitive examination after he said that Biden looked lost on stage repeatedly.
This happened when the president was at the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) training center.
“WOW! What is going on with Biden here??? He’s TOTALLY lost. This man needs a cognitive exam NOW. There’s NO WAY he’s ok!!” the representative said in a tweet.
The president also appeared to struggle to read the words from the teleprompter.
Rep. Jackson was interviewed on Fox News and he called Biden’s cognitive abilities into question and discussed what could be behind Biden’s struggles.
“Well, I mean, congressman, there were signs that Joe Biden was declining during the 2020 campaign. I mean, let’s face it. He stayed in the basement the whole time during the campaign. So who knew what when? Are they hiding this and feeding him drugs to allow him to function?”
“I know he goes home to Delaware a lot, more than any other president. So I guess my question is, what did Obama know? What did Jill Biden know? And who’s running the White House right now and are they covering up for these mental issues?” host Maria Bartiromo asked.
“Well, that’s the big question everybody’s asking, who’s really pulling the strings, who’s running the country right now?” Jackson began.
We don’t know the answer to that. We don’t know if it’s Susan Rice or Ron Klain or if it’s Joe Biden or who it is, but somebody else is doing this. They’re doing exactly what you said, they’re rolling him out at specific times during the day, he’s got good days and bad days.”
Jackson said that he was unsure what drugs Biden is on. he said there are a few that can cover up and help in alertness and memory.
He added: “With regards to the Obama Administration and who should’ve done something about it, they saw him every day and they stayed in close contact with him, I’m sure after the Obama-Biden Administration was over. Somebody should have done something. Maria, I think they were so blinded by the fact that if Joe Biden came into office, they were going to be able to populate the entire West Wing with Obama folks, and that actually happened. Initially, there were a ton of Obama folks in the West Wing and we have Susan Rice running domestic policy right now. So, I think that they thought that the risk was worth it to get their people back into the West Wing, and they just ignored the fact that this man had some serious cognitive issues. And now they’re going to have to answer why, because it’s getting worse, it’s unsustainable at this particular point.”
Biden’s doctors have consistently declared him “fit for duty.”
