A former White House physician turned Republican lawmaker says President Biden\u2019s mental fitness is a matter of \u2018national security.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018The article\u2019s just documenting what I\u2019ve been saying all along: he\u2019s not fit to be the commander-in-chief,\u2019 Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. \u2018He\u2019s got significant issues, he shouldn\u2019t have the job. You know, it\u2019s a national security issue for us.\u2019<\/p>\n
It comes after a bombshell report in The Wall Street Journal that cited interviews with 45 people over the course of several months, claiming that congressional leaders and others who have met with Biden have noticed he \u2018appears slower now\u2019 and is \u2018someone who has both good moments and bad ones.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before being elected to Congress, Jackson served as the top White House physician to former Presidents Obama and Trump. He also served as chief medical adviser for the latter.<\/p>\n
The Journal\u2019s report has prompted furious pushback from the White House and its allies, who have dismissed it as a GOP-led hit piece.<\/p>\n
However, Jackson pointed out that some of the commentary apparently came from Democrats. The report said, \u2018Most of those who said Biden performed poorly were Republicans, but some Democrats said that he showed his age in several of the exchanges.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Texas Republican speculated that it could be the beginnings of a political coup against the 81-year-old president.<\/p>\n
\u2018I think that the fact that it came out like this, and is so well sourced, tells me that this might be the left\u2019s first attempt to start laying the groundwork to get rid of him,\u2019 Jackson said.<\/p>\n
Jackson told Fox News Digital that he has sent five letters to the White House since Biden took office in January 2021, urging him to take a cognitive test and to make those results public. All five letters have gone unanswered, he said.<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t know if it does any good to send another letter at this point,\u2019 Jackson said. \u2018They\u2019ve ignored them all.\u2019<\/p>\n
White House spokesman Andrew Bates responded to Jackson\u2019s comments by comparing him to a character from \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 who\u2019s known to have questionable medical practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019d refer Dr. Nick Riviera to what Kevin McCarthy said about negotiating with President Biden in the moment, when it was still fresh in his mind: \u2018very professional, very smart. Very tough at the same time,\u2019 Bates told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
There have been several recent polls that show Biden\u2019s age is a top concern for voters.<\/p>\n
A March New York Times\/Siena College poll found that 61% of respondents who voted for Biden in 2020 agreed with the statement, \u2018Joe Biden is just too old to be an effective president.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bates hit back at the Journal\u2019s report, saying, \u2018Congressional Republicans, foreign leaders and nonpartisan national-security experts have made clear in their own words that President Biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Now, in 2024, House Republicans are making false claims as a political tactic that flatly contradict previous statements made by themselves and their colleagues,\u2019 Bates said.<\/p>\n
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., posted on X, \u2018Many of us spent time with [the Journal] to share on the record our first-hand experiences with [Biden], where we see his wisdom, experience, strength and strategic thinking. Instead, the Journal ignored testimony by Democrats, focused on attacks by Republicans and printed a hit piece.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018I made clear to the [Journal] regarding the January meeting on Ukraine that the President was absolutely engaged & ran that meeting in a way that brought everyone together. I\u2019m not quoted \u2014 I wonder why,\u2019 Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n
A former White House physician turned Republican lawmaker says President Biden\u2019s mental fitness is a matter of \u2018national security.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018The article\u2019s just documenting what I\u2019ve been saying all along: he\u2019s not fit to be the commander-in-chief,\u2019 Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. \u2018He\u2019s got significant issues, he shouldn\u2019t have the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}