We’ll just go ahead and write it, Joe Biden is suffering from mental disease. We can see it, you can see it, America and the world sees it, and it makes our country weaker. Republicans want to get it out in the open now.

We've seen Biden's cognitive decline on full display for over a YEAR. If President Trump took a cognitive exam while in office, so should Biden. This problem will only get worse with time. We can't afford to wait ANY longer. TAKE THE TEST NOW! pic.twitter.com/25YTUIK0BP

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) February 9, 2022

FNC: “Nearly 40 Republican lawmakers are calling on President Biden, 79, to take a cognitive test, following the example set by his predecessor, former President Donald Trump.

The Republican push for Biden to undergo cognitive testing comes as recent polls have shown Americans are unsure of the president’s mental fitness for office. Former physician to the president Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, led a letter with 37 of his GOP colleagues to Biden on Tuesday expressing their ‘concern’ with Biden’s ‘current cognitive state.’ ”

“My colleagues and I are again asking President Biden to immediately undergo a formal cognitive screening exam, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA),” Jackson told press.

“As a former physician to three Presidents of the United States, I know what it takes mentally and physically to execute the duties of Commander-in-Chief and Head of State,” Jackson continued. “Joe Biden has continually proven to me and to the world that something isn’t right. The American people deserve to have absolute confidence in their President’s cognitive ability.”

Jackson said “the cognitive test will be an important first step” in proving that the president is fit for office or “in identifying and properly treating symptoms of impairment that are consistent with a variety of cognitive diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s, or multiple sclerosis.

“This is not a partisan issue. When I discussed taking a cognitive test with President Trump, he was eager to assure the American people and to put the fake news media’s stories to bed,” the former presidential doc wrote. “Why won’t President Biden do the same?

“We can only assume the worst if he doesn’t submit to the same standard that his own party demanded of the last Administration,” he added. “The precedent has been set.”

In the letter to Biden, the GOP lawmakers wrote that they “believe that, regardless of gender, age, or political party, all Presidents should follow the example set by former President Trump to document and demonstrate sound mental abilities…While you underwent your annual physical exam on November 19, 2021, you either did not face a cognitive test or those results were withheld from the public. The lawmakers told Biden they “are worried about your mental abilities.”

 

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