Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor, said special counsel Robert Hur's report “validates” what he and many have known for years: President Biden has “serious problems.”
Hur, who had been tasked with investigating Biden's mishandling of classified documents, described the president in a report this week as a “sympathetic, well-intentioned old man with a short memory.”
“It validates what most of us knew,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “I've been saying since Joe Biden was a candidate that this man is not cognitively fit to be our president, our commander in chief and our head of state. I've been saying that over and over again.
“I watched this man every day, you know, in and around the West Wing for eight years when he was vice president. There's a drastic, drastic difference between then and now.”
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Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House doctor, said special counsel Robert Hur's report “validates” what he and many Americans have known all along: President Biden has “serious problems.” (Getty Images)
“Go back and watch the videos from when he was first vice president and compare them to now. He's not even the same person,” Jackson added. “He has some serious problems. I've been saying it for a long time. Now that the report says that, the special counsel report came out and said exactly that. He was a special counsel appointed by the Biden Department of Justice, and they” . “We are saying the same thing that I and many Americans have been saying for a long time.”
Despite growing concerns about his mental acuity, Biden told Americans from the White House Thursday night his memory is “fine” and defended his reelection campaign, saying he is “the most qualified person in this country to be president.”
Biden's address to the nation came just hours after Hur released his report, which did not recommend criminal charges against the president for mishandling classified documents. Those records included classified documents on military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, among other records related to national security and foreign policy that Hur said included “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
In Biden's follow-up speech to the report, Jackson said the president made “all kinds of gaffes and demonstrated in real time to the entire world that the report is accurate, that everything we've been thinking for the last three years is exact”.
“He is cognitively incapable of being our commander in chief, and that will be a problem for us,” Jackson said.
“It's a real national security problem. I mean, it's always been a national security problem, but it's a national security problem that's getting worse by the day.
“We have a lot going on overseas. Our adversaries don't respect us at all. They don't fear us or our allies. I mean, they don't trust us and they don't really know if I'll be there if something bad happens.”
President Biden held a press conference Thursday in response to special counsel Robert Hur's description of his age and memory. (Reuters)
Aside from Biden's memory and mental acuity, Jackson said he believes the report “validates that the government has been weaponized for political purposes.”
“The Democrats have turned the government into a weapon against Donald Trump. Anyone has to defeat Donald Trump for political purposes: the FBI, the Department of Justice,” he said.
Jackson, who previously served as White House physician to former presidents. Barack Obama and Donald Trump, faced criticism from Obama for his criticism of Biden's cognitive health in the 2020 election campaign.
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In his 2022 memoir, Jackson detailed a “scathing” email that he received from Obama about comments he had made on Twitter about Biden's mental state when Biden was a presidential candidate.
“I have made sure not to comment on your service in my successor's administration and have always spoken highly of you, both publicly and privately. You have always served me and my family well, and I have considered you not only an excellent doctor and military service member, but also a friend,” Obama wrote in the email to Jackson.
“This is why I have to express my disappointment in the cheap shot you dealt to Joe Biden via Twitter. It was unprofessional and beneath the office he once held. It was also disrespectful to me and the many friends he had in our administration. “He was the personal physician to the President of the United States and also an admiral in the US Navy. I expect better and, upon reflection, I hope you expect more of yourself in the future”.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, was White House doctor for Presidents Obama and Trump. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Last February, after Biden underwent his annual physical, Jackson told Fox News: “Most Americans can see that Biden's mental health is in complete decline. However, there is no transparency from the White House about what, if anything, is happening to address this problem and their inability to do their job.”
He also took issue at the time with the lack of mention of the president undergoing cognitive testing amid his “deteriorating mental health.”
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“Nowhere in the report is there any mention of Biden's deteriorating mental health,” the Republican lawmaker said. “This is alarming, considering that I have already sent three letters to the White House demanding that Biden receive a cognitive test and that the results be made public, all of which have been ignored. Everyone can see that something is wrong: the cover-up needs to end “
TO Monmouth University Survey published in October found that 76% of voters viewed Biden, who was 80 at the time, as “too old” to serve another term, compared to just 48% who said the same about Trump, 77. .
Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
