FIRST ON FOX: He The White House would have to notify Congress when the president takes a medication that could impair his alertness, judgment or mood, under a bill proposed Thursday by a Tennessee Republican.
“Joe Biden’s disgraceful outbursts of anger and incomprehensible speeches reflect the untold damage his policies have caused our nation,” Rep. Andy Ogles told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
“Frequent slurred speech, abnormally long pauses and an inability to string five words together into a coherent sentence have highlighted Biden’s physical and mental deterioration,” he said. “It is unfair to the American people that the White House is occupied by someone who is literally unable to speak.”
Ogles said his bill, Joe’s Anti-Juicing Law, came about because the White House “has refused” to test Biden’s cognitive abilities “because they know he will fail miserably.” Biden is scheduled to debate former President Trump, the Republican nominee, later this month.
BIDEN’S ‘PERPETUAL STATE OF CONFUSION’ ON FULL SCREEN IN NORMANDY AMID GROWING COGNITIVE QUESTIONS
Rep. Andy Ogles is introducing a bill he calls the No Juicing Joe Act. (Chip Somodevilla/Staff I Michael M. Santiago/Staff)
“The president, whose office is the most powerful in the world, must be accountable to the people, and it is the duty of Congress to ensure accountability,” Ogles said.
Past presidents have dealt with health problems that sometimes involve drug treatments that affect their behavior, Ogles noted, such as the treatment of President John F. Kennedy by Dr. Max Jacobson, known as “Doctor Feelgood,” and the Woodrow Wilson’s post-stroke incapacitation, which led to the 21st Amendment.
In a statement emailed to Fox News Digital, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said: “It’s telling that Republican officials can’t stop announcing how intimidated they remain by the president’s State of the Union performance. Biden.
“But after losing every public and private negotiation with President Biden, and after watching him succeed where they failed across the board, from rebuilding America’s infrastructure to reducing violent crime and overcoming China, “It appears that those same Republican officials confuse trust with a drug.”
BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE URGED DEMOCRATS TO CALL BACK THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WHILE REPORTING ON THE PRESIDENT’S MENTAL ACUITY
The Republican National Committee’s research division released several videos on Thursday that appeared to show President Biden in a “perpetual state of confusion.” (FoxNews)
Last week, the research division of the Republican National Committee (RNC) released several videos about X that appeared to show president biden in “a perpetual state of confusion” following his recent speech in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The RNC research account, which is managed by Former President Trump’s campaign. and the RNC, repeated several posts about the president’s X in Normandy, with a video showing Biden leaning in at one point, appearing unsure if it was time to sit down.
Questions about Biden’s mental acuity also circulated last week after The Wall Street Journal Explosive report that interviewed 45 lawmakers and administration officials about Biden’s mental performance.
Biden, 81, is the oldest person to serve as president and has faced skepticism from Republican voters and lawmakers about his ability to do his job. Many Republicans and even some Democrats said the president showed his age in private meetings.
BIDEN SHOWS SIGNS OF DECLINE IN PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS: REPORT
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., leaves the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Most of the people interviewed by the outlet who criticized Biden’s performance were Republicans, although some democrats He said the president showed his age in several exchanges. These interviewees participated in meetings with Biden or were briefed on them at the same time, including administration officials and other Democrats who did not express concerns about how the president handled the meetings.
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White House officials, however, dismissed many of the accounts from people who met with the president or were briefed on those meetings, saying such criticism was motivated by partisan politics.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
