The Former White House physician for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump and now GOP Congressman from Texas, Representative Ronny Jackson (R-TX), joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss the mental and physical condition of President Joe Biden.
Hannity asked Jackson if he felt the decline in mental and physical health of Biden was worsening in his opinion. Jackson replied by saying, “I’ve been saying this from the beginning. I was saying this when he was candidate Joe Biden. And I’ve been saying that it’s only gonna get worse and guess what? We are seeing that happening right before our eyes right now.”
Jackson served President Barack Obama and President Donald J. Trump, both of which underwent a series of physical and cognitive tests which were made public. Jackson has previously called on the current White House physician to perform the same cognitive test on President Joe Biden.
“I think that he’s either going to resign, they’re going to convince him to resign from office at some time in the near future for medical issues or they’re going to have to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of this man right now.”
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President and the Presidential cabinet to convene and oust the sitting president for reasons of mental incompetency. The text reads, “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
This section of the 25th Amendment has never been used and other sections of the Amendment which detail the line of presidential and vice presidential succession has only been used a few times throughout history.
Continuing his assertion that the 25th Amendment will be used to oust President Joe Bide, Jackson said, “If you’re a cabinet member right now-you have to be looking at him and thinking to yourself, ‘What is going on?, ‘Can I take direction from this man right now?’, and I think that’s gonna start happening very soon. This is a national security issue”