As Thursday’s presidential debate approaches, Donald Trump and its allies have worked overtime to assert that Joe Biden Trump will show up on stage under the influence of drugs, an obvious attempt to preemptively explain away what they clearly fear will be a decent performance from a guy they’ve long suggested has dementia. “Right now, Crooked Joe has gone to a log cabin to ‘study,’” Trump told supporters at a rally Saturday, putting quotation marks around it. study. “He is sleeping now, because they want to make him good and strong. So a little before debate time, he gets shot in the ass…. I say he’ll come away excited, right? Then he insinuated that Biden would lead the debate on cocaine.
This is obviously a crazy thing to say, even for Trump. And while most of his right-wing supporters aligned themselves with Biden’s story on drugs, one lawmaker dared to call it bullshit on Tuesday.
In conversation with CNN Kaitlan Collins, House tenant Mike Johnson spoke about drug rhetoric: “There are a lot of things that are said in jest. Of course, no one expects Joe Biden to do cocaine.” Still, he insisted that people are asking legitimate questions when they wonder whether Biden “will have some kind of energy drink or something.” Claiming that the president’s energy levels “vary depending on the format he’s in and the forum,” Johnson said, “We hope he does what he did at the state conference of the Union. He had a lot of energy that night, so that’s the Joe Biden I expect to see. Then, as Republicans are contractually obligated to do, he added: “The question is can (Biden) stay on this stage for 90 minutes and confront President Trump, who, as you know, is participating in rallies and at gatherings. speak for two hours without any breaks or notes?
An exasperated Biden spokeswoman also appeared on CNN on Tuesday. Adrienne Elrod, who said of Trump’s drug allegations: “That’s what he’s doing because he doesn’t have anything else to run by.” He has no plan. He has no track record of fighting for the American people. He doesn’t know why he’s running except to seek political revenge on his enemies. So he has to resort to these kinds of tactics which are frankly stupid and which turn off many voters, especially those who want to see their president fight for them. She noted that the ex-president has been accusing his opponents of drug use since at least 2016, when he demanded Hillary Clinton undergo drug testing; four years later, he said Biden should be subjected to the same test. And now here we are!
