Trump demands drug test for Biden before first presidential debate
Donald Trump demanded on Friday that Joe Biden be drug tested ahead of the two presidential debates both candidates have agreed to participate in.
The former president cited the incumbent’s State of the Union address in March in his call for drug testing, alleging that Biden was “high as a kite” when he delivered the speech.
“I just want to debate this guy, but you know – and I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump told Republicans during a speech at a GOP dinner in St. Paul, Minn.
“I am. No, I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite,” the presumptive GOP nominee for president added.
“We’re going to demand a drug test,” Trump reiterated, without saying whether he would take one himself.
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Biden, 81, spoke loudly and at a fairly rapid clip during his lengthy address.
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, alleged after the speech, during an appearance on FOX Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” that Biden “must have been jacked up on something that day.”
Trump, 77, has previously called for Biden to be drug tested.
In 2020, he argued that Biden’s debate performances during the Democratic primaries had been “uneven,” and said he would be “strongly demanding” a drug test before their debates ahead of the 2020 general election.
Neither candidate ended up taking a drug test before their two 2020 debates.
Trump and Biden agreed this week to debate each other on June 27 (on CNN) and Sept. 10 (on ABC).
“They’re going to be fair, I think they’re going to be fair enough,” Trump said Friday of the networks hosting the debates.
