Ronny Jackson, the former White House doctor who served in the medical unit under George W. Bush before being appointed Presidential Physician for Barack Obama and Donald Trump, had spoken out over Joe Biden's recent gaffes.
Jackson told reporters Tuesday that the Democratic nominee lacks the cognitive ability to fulfill the numerous duties of the presidency.
“I’m pretty familiar with what it takes both physically and cognitively to do that job and what the demands of that job are,” Jackson said.
“As a citizen, not as a candidate running for Congress, but as a citizen of this country, I’ve watched Joe Biden on the campaign trail and I am concerned and convinced that he does not have the mental capacity, the cognitive ability, to serve as our commander-in-chief and our head of state.”
Jackson cited the memory lapse of Biden during his recent Ohio rally when he forgot Mitt Romney’s name and referred to him as “that senator who was a Mormon,” as well as his tongue slip-up when he claimed he was running for “senate.”
The former physician also noted that Biden’s advanced age has little to do with his inadvertence, claiming that people at their 100 can still be very sharp.
“This is a demanding job from a cognitive standpoint, you have to be locked on, you have to be articulate, you have to process lots and lots of information and multitask,” Jackson added.
“And right now he’s having a really extreme time just focusing on one task at hand that he has when he stands up in front of voters and tries to explain something.”
