Ronny Jackson, now a GOP Congressman from Texas, worked in the White House medical unit for 14 years and served as the Physician to the President for both President Obama and President Trump. Now, he’s speaking out about Biden’s seeming cognitive decline and suggesting that it is time for Biden to removed from office via the 25th Amendment.
Rep. Jackson’s comments on the matter came during an interview with Breitbart News Daily on February 9, 2024. That interview came after Special Counsel Robert Hur released a devastating report on Biden’s handling of classified documents in which he did not recommend charging President Biden, but did include numerous examples of Biden’s failing memory.
In one particularly worrisome portion of the report, for example, Hur said, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.”
So, Rep. Jackson spoke about Biden with Breitbart News Radio in the wake of that report. Beginning, he noted that he has been raising alarms about Biden’s mental faculties since before the election, saying, “We’ve been saying this for a long time. I had been saying this since before he actually became elected President, that this man is not cognitively fit to be our president. I said that it would continue to get worse. It has. Everyone has continued to see it on a regular basis.”
He continued, “We all know this is happening. What we saw yesterday was validation from a completely different source. . . [Biden’s DOJ said] that he’s not cognitively fit to stand trial for the crimes that he committed with these classified documents, which is unbelievable that, you know, they’re saying that he’s not cognitively fit to stand trial yet.”
Emphasizing why those “cognitive issues” alleged in the report are important, Rep. Jackson added, “He’s our Commander-in-Chief, our head of state and you know, if he can’t stand trial, because of his cognitive issues, I mean, it goes without saying that he can’t be the president of the United States. And so then he gets on TV and he tries to refute this. And he makes it even worse.” That last comment is a reference to Biden’s press conference the night of the report, in which he made numerous gaffes.
Continuing, Rep. Jackson said that our enemies abroad are looking at Biden and seeing weakness that they can take advantage of. He said, “All he does is validate what they said in the report and what we’ve all known for years now. And so we’re in a bad situation. We’re in a situation where even the few people that didn’t want to admit that they’ve lost confidence in this man. … We’re in a situation where our adversaries overseas are looking at what’s happening and they are just licking their chops that we don’t have a competent Commander-in-Chief. And our allies are terrified that, you know, that we’re supposed to be one of their main allies supporting them, you know, endeavors all over the world. So this is a bad situation.”
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Jackson then noted that the problem should be obvious to anyone paying attention to how Biden acts. “You don’t even really have to be in position to pick up on this and the diagnosis. To some extent, I’m not making the diagnosis, but just in layman’s terms, because everyone has experienced this with a family member, but it’s the same thing you say — it’s the slurring of speech. … It’s the kind of the dead stare, the chopping block, the stiff gait, the forgetfulness, the confusion, all of these things, some physical signs, some mental, but they’re all there. He has the whole package, right?” he said. He added, “Like I said, I don’t know if he has multi infarct dementia or Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s or what the issue is. All I know is that he has serious cognitive decline related to his age, and it doesn’t matter what … the actual diagnosis is. All of those have the same natural history. They all get worse with time, not better. And we’re seeing that before.”
Later, Rep. Jackson suggested the 25th Amendment could be getting close to being appropriate, saying, “The 25th Amendment would be a way that we could do this, you know, even if he didn’t want to.” He added that “if a majority of his cabinet and his vice president come to the … Senate Pro Tempore and the Speaker of the House, and they tell them that this man is not cognitively fit, then he will get voted out with a two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate.”
Watch Biden mix up Mexico and Egypt’s leadership during his post-Hur report presser here: