Trump calls for drug tests before debate with Biden [View all]
Source: The Hill
President Trump is calling for drug tests to be administered before the first presidential debate between him and Democratic nominee Joe Biden next month.
Trump made the demand in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Examiner Wednesday, saying he noted a sudden improvement in Biden’s primary debate performance against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in March. He offered no evidence to support his suggestion that the improvement could have been the result of a drug.
"I don't know how he could have been so incompetent in his debate performances and then all of a sudden be OK against Bernie," he added when press to clarify. "My point is, if you go back and watch some of those numerous debates, he was so bad. He wasn't even coherent. And against Bernie, he was. And we're calling for a drug test."
The president said he was going solely based off of his own observations and not any inside knowledge into Biden’s campaign. "All I can tell you is that I'm pretty good at this stuff," he said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/513836-trump-calls-for-drug-tests-before-debate-with-biden
Trump and Biden are set to square off for their first debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland on Sept. 29. The president did not say when — or to whom — he would officially make his drug test request.
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