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Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former physician to the president, said Sunday on Fox News that Americans “need to know” if former President Joe Biden was really “in charge” during his sole White House term.
Jackson, who had served as the White House doctor for both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, compared the situation regarding Biden’s health in office to when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his presidency. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Harris Faulkner Says Story About Biden’s Decline ‘Not Over Yet’)
“This is similar to what happened in 1919 with Edith Wilson as the First Lady, with Woodrow Wilson when he had a massive stroke, and he continued to be president for a year and a half after that, and it’s well documented that it was the physician to the president and the First Lady that kept him sequestered and that kept hidden from the press and were making the decisions about what was going on in this country,” Jackson told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.
“The big difference is, is that the stakes were much higher over the last four years than they were in 1919 and you know as well as I do all the damage that the Biden Administration did to this country across the board whether it was overseas in Afghanistan, our reputation overseas, our southern border, the economy or all the disgusting social issues that they tried to push down the throats of the American people,” Jackson added.
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Biden’s health issues and cognitive decline during his term in office has been well documented in writings published following the 2024 presidential election, with one book, “Original Sin,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, reporting that Biden failed to recognize Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney, a long-time supporter, at a fundraiser.
“Who was signing those — who was in charge when this was happening?” Jackson continued, referring to pardons, executive orders and legislation signed during Biden’s presidency. “It’s becoming very obvious from whistleblowers that it was not Joe Biden. So we need to know, the American people need to know who was making decisions over those last four years, who had access to that autopen and who was signing this legislation. Because that, that’s an actual crime. I mean, if someone was running the country pretending to be the president of the United States and they weren’t, we need to know. And we need to make sure this never ever happens again.”
Questions about the use of an autopen, a mechanical device that can replicate a stored signature, to sign documents during the Biden administration emerged in March when Trump declared in a post on Truth Social early Monday morning that pardons issued by Biden to members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol were invalid due to the device’s use.
Jackson also questioned the timing of Biden’s May 18 announcement that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone. Prostate cancer that has spread to the bone is usually considered Stage 4B cancer with a survival rate of 37% over five years from diagnosis, according to the Mayo Clinic. (RELATED: ‘They Abused Us’: Fox WH Correspondent Details Pressure Biden White House Put On Reporters Over President’s Condition)
“They claim that they diagnosed it on a Friday, that they biopsied it on the same day, got the results back, found out it was prostate cancer and then they basically realized that it had metastasized all over his body,” Jackson told Bartiromo. “That’s a little unbelievable, if you can ask me. So, I don’t think that happened, I think it was a diversion. It was right before the book came out with Jake Tapper and right after the [former Special Counsel Robert] Hur tapes, so I think they were trying to create sympathy for the former president.”
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