{"id":2248660,"date":"2024-05-20T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-biden-used-drugs-before-sotu-says-potus-was-high-on-confidence\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:27:29","slug":"white-house-denies-biden-used-drugs-before-sotu-says-potus-was-high-on-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-denies-biden-used-drugs-before-sotu-says-potus-was-high-on-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"White House refutes claims of Biden using drugs before SOTU, insists POTUS was simply &#8216;confident"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-denies-biden-used-drugs-before-sotu-says-potus-was-high-on-confidence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248660&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House refuted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">allegations<\/a> of President Biden using\u2063 drugs\u2063 before\u2064 his State of the Union speech. White House Spokesman Bates stated that Republican officials \u2062mistook Biden&#8217;s \u200dconfidence for\u200d drug use.\u2064 Republicans have called for \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-the-situation-is-completely-unstable-crenshaw-tours-the-southern-border\/\" title=\"WATCH: \u2018The Situation Is Completely Unstable\u2019: Crenshaw Tours The Southern Border\">drug test<\/a> before a debate\u200c with Trump, citing\u200c Biden&#8217;s SOTU address\u200b as surreal. This follows claims of Biden potentially \u2063using substances for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/that-is-hilarious-energy-secretary-cackles-when-asked-about-rising-gasoline-prices\/\" title=\"\u2018That Is Hilarious\u2019: Energy Secretary Cackles When Asked About Rising Gasoline Prices\">increased energy<\/a>. The White House denied \u200baccusations of President Biden using drugs ahead of his State of the\u200c Union speech. Spokesman Bates clarified that Republicans misunderstood Biden&#8217;s confidence\u200c as drug use. Calls for a drug test before a debate with \u200dTrump arose, linking to Biden&#8217;s SOTU speech. Allegations of Biden using \u2062substances for enhanced energy have surfaced.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The White House reportedly denied allegations that President Joe Biden took drugs to perk up ahead of his State of the Union speech earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">White House Spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement over the weekend that Republican officials who question Biden\u2019s SOTU performance were mistaking drug use with \u201cconfidence,\u201d according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">POLITICO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Republicans in recent days have called for Biden to submit to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-predicts-presidential-debate-moderators-will-play-interference-for-biden\/\" title=\"Tim Scott anticipates moderators will favor Biden in presidential debate\">drug test ahead<\/a> of a debate with former president Donald Trump, often citing the president\u2019s \u201csurreal\u201d SOTU address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s telling that Republican officials are unable to stop announcing how intimidated they remain by [the] President\u2019s State of the Union performance,\u201d Bates said. \u201cBut after losing every public and private negotiation with President Biden \u2014 and after seeing him succeed where they failed across the board, ranging from actually rebuilding America\u2019s infrastructure to actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-call-out-chuck-schumers-reaction-as-aoc-claims-an-answer-to-violent-crime-is-not-building-jails\/\" title=\"People Call Out Chuck Schumer\u2019s Reaction As AOC Claims An Answer To Violent Crime Is Not Building Jails\">reducing violent crime<\/a> to actually outcompeting China \u2014 it tracks that those same Republican officials mistake confidence for a drug.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the past week, multiple prominent Republicans have pointed to the president\u2019s SOTU performance as evidence that Biden, 81, potentially used substances to increase his energy ahead of the major event. Republicans have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-say-biden-should-be-tested-for-artificial-stimulation-before-debate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">floated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the idea that the president could use substances ahead of a debate with Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) was asked on Fox News over the weekend if Biden should submit a drug test before the debate, Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-say-biden-should-be-tested-for-artificial-stimulation-before-debate\">responded<\/a>: \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe truth of the matter is if you saw the State of the Union and you watched that performance, it was surreal. There was something going on, and if we could find the truth of what it was, we\u2019re all better off,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIf it takes artificial stimulation to make the President of the United States perform, how often can he do that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) raised concerns that mental impairment could hamper Biden\u2019s ability to perform presidential duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re talking about someone who has the ability to launch nukes,\u201d Luna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republicans-say-biden-should-be-tested-for-artificial-stimulation-before-debate\">said<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a rally last week, Trump said Biden looked \u201chigh as a kite\u201d the night of the State of the Union address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI just want to debate this guy \u2026 and I\u2019m going to demand a drug test too, by the way,\u201d Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-demand-biden-take-a-drug-test-before-debate-he-was-high-as-a-kite-during-sotu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cI am. No, I really am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite,\u201d he continued. \u201cI said is that Joe up there? \u2026 And by the end of the evening \u2026 he was exhausted, right? No, we\u2019re going to demand a drug test.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House denied claims of President Biden using drugs before his State of the Union speech. White House Spokesman Andrew Bates clarified that allegations by Republican officials mistook Biden&#8217;s performance for drug use, highlighting his &#8216;confidence.&#8217; POLITICO reported the statement over the weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2248661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Joe-Biden-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Joe-Biden-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}