Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo questioned Republicans who claimed President Joe Biden used drugs during his State of the Union address in March.
Bartiromo interviewed Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on Sunday.
‘Well, I just want to say, look. “These are obviously very serious charges, that he is on drugs,” Bartiromo said. ‘We don’t know, we are not doctors. We have no idea.
Trump renewed demands that Biden take a drug test before the debates during a policy speech in Minnesota on Saturday.
By the way, I’m also going to demand a drug test. Am. No, I really am,’ he said. ‘I don’t want it to come like it’s the State of the Union.’ I was high as a kite.
Donald Trump has asked Joe Biden to undergo drug testing before the debates
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) agreed with Trump and called for Biden to undergo drug testing ahead of the Republican presidential debates.
“You could tell that when Joe Biden walks in, he’s fired up and then as the hour goes on, he slowly relaxes,” he said.
Donalds said Biden’s energy levels were inconsistent and voters in the presidential election needed to know why.
“So the American people need to understand if they are giving him any injection so that he really appears coherent and is with us, because the rest of the time he is not,” he said.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) agreed with Donalds, raising concerns about Biden’s ability to serve a president.
“We need to make sure that this individual is essentially capable of not only leading this country, but also able to make those difficult decisions,” he said. “And frankly, I’m not trying to be funny, we don’t necessarily trust him to be able to do that right now.”
In April, Trump suggested that Biden used cocaine during his State of the Union address, referring to cocaine found in the White House.
“I think what happened, you know, that white stuff, that they found, that turned out to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something is going on there,” he said in a radio interview. host Hugh Hewitt.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference
Both members of Congress called on Biden to release audio recordings of his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur during the investigation into his personal possession of classified documents.
Hur concluded after interviews that Biden was “a sympathetic, well-intentioned old man with a bad memory.”
Although transcripts of the interviews have been released, Republicans are trying to obtain Biden’s audio recordings.
Biden asserted executive privilege last week, blocking the audio tapes from being turned over to Congress.
U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after attending Trump’s “hush money” trial in New York City
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings exposes their likely purpose: to cut, distort, and use them for partisan political purposes,” White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a letter to Republicans, explaining why why Biden was blocking his release.
“Requiring such sensitive and constitutionally protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for possible political benefits is inappropriate,” he added.
