Rep. Greg Murphy suspects that President Biden was “on something” for his State of the Union speech in March based on his performance.
“I was in the State of the Union address, and Joe Biden must have been jacked up on something that day. I absolutely believe that from a medical viewpoint and actually have a little bit of good knowledge that happened,” Mr. Murphy, North Carolina Republican, said on Fox Business Thursday.
“He can’t stand, and he can’t stand under the lights for that long, and I don’t think he can keep a concept in his brain that long,” he said.
Mr. Murphy, the only practicing surgeon in Congress, is co-chairman of the GOP Doctors Caucus and of the Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus.
He told host Maria Bartiromo that he believes Mr. Biden was given some kind of drug “to sustain the vigor that he had.”
“That was not Joe Biden. I was in there. He screamed for two hours,” he said.
He suggested if he talked with Ms. Bartiromo “offline” he would show her some “evidence” that Mr. Biden was given something before the address.
When asked if the president took medicine for the speech, Mr. Murphy said Mr. Biden had gotten a facelift and that he’s being “manufactured and puppeteered by the Democratic Party to be president.”
“I fully believe that has to do sometimes with pharmacology,” he said.
Many people were shocked by Mr. Biden’s performance at the State of the Union, which was unusually energetic for the 81-year-old president.
Former President Donald Trump in an interview last month said he thought Mr. Biden was “higher than a kite” and “all jacked up at the beginning” of the address.
Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday said Mr. Trump will “wipe the floor” with the president in their two scheduled debates, and he doesn’t “care if we get the State of the Union jacked up Joe with caffeine, Red Bull or whatever.”
The Washington Times reached out to the White House for comment.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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