Trump Demands Biden Take Drug Test Before Debates

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Calarogu Shark Media from Washington, DC. Where even our debates need drug tests.

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This is bout today we talk about
Trump's latest demand for Biden to take

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a drug test before their debates and
how Trump spend his day off. Let's

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hit this. Donald Trump demanded that
Joe Biden be drug tested ahead of the

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two presidential debates both candidates have agreed
to participate in. The former president cited

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the incumbent State of the Union address
in March in his call for drug testing,

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alleging that Biden was high as a
kite when he delivered the speech.

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I just want to debate this guy, but you know, and I'm going

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to demand a drug test too.
By the way, Trump told Republicans during

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a speech at a GOP dinner in
Saint Paul. Of course he wants drug

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testing after doubting a case of pseuda
fed to get himself up for the debates.

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I am no, I really am. I don't want him coming in

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like the State of the Union,
he was high as a kite. The

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presumptive GOP night added, Yes,
Donald Biden's notorious for hot boxing the Oval

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office before major events. It's totally
not projection from the adderall Officionado himself.

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We're going to demand a drug test, Trump reiterated, without saying whether he

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would take one himself, because why
would the reasonably lucid candidate ever need to

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prove he's clean as a whistle.
Donald Trump also said Friday his campaign has

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accepted an invitation from Fox News for
his yet to be chosen running mate to

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debate Vice President Kamala Harris, and
he urged her to accept as well.

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Yeah, because what better way to
kick off a presidential campaign than having your

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VP pick debate before you even announced
them. That's some real four D chess

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right there. In fact, Harris
has already said she'll debate, but on

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a rival network, which just goes
to show she's clearly playing the smarter strategic

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game here by avoiding the cesspool of
propaganda that is Fox News. Can't say

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I blame her. President Joe Biden's
campaign signaled it would reject Trump's offer an

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official pointing to the acceptable debate parameters
it detailed earlier this week. Under those

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conditions, a Fox News hosted debate
would not qualify, So Biden is trying

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to have an actual, substantive policy
debate rather than a shoutfest on State TV.

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What a novel concept. Republican Trump's
post on his social media network came

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after Democrat Harris accepted a different invitation
from CBS News, because, of course,

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the Democrats want to be on an
actual news network rather than Trump's personal

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YouTube channel. The public brokering of
debates is continuing after the two presumptive presidential

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nominees this week agreed to meet twice
this summer bypassing the commission that has hosted

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debates since nineteen eighty eight. Gotta
love how they're just making up the rules

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as they go along. Now reminds
me of that time I tried hosting a

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debate between my cat and the neighbor's
dog. Jen Saki is playing a bit

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of skeptic when it comes to those
highly anticipated Biden versus Trump debates actually happening.

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The former White House Press secretary turned
MSNBC pundit expressed some serious doubts that

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the two agreed upon showdowns in June
and September will come to fruition. In

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her own delightfully candid words, she's
still a skeptic a little bit. Saki's

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main concern that the ever mercurial and
agreement a verse. Donald Trump will inevitably

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object to the terms laid out by
Biden's team, potentially causing this whole thing

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to unravel faster than a Maga mertch
shipping operation. Trump could certainly say I

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never agreed to those terms in the
letter, and he probably will. Saki

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mused, that's how this all falls
apart. She's got a point. If

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there's one thing we know about the
former president, it's that he loves nothing

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more than to yank away the football
at the last second. Committing to fair

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parameters and reasonable guidelines not exactly his
strong suit, of course. Saki also

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provided some insight into why Biden's camp
opted to be so brazen in setting the

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rules of engagement from the jump.
Apparently they felt forced to get out ahead

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of Trump's inevitable game playing and taunting
before it devolved into a whole sleepy Joe

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aide shaming narrative. An interesting gambit, to be sure, though Saki did

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snarkily suggest Biden already undermined his own
sharpness narrative by seeming a little weak and

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unable to unilaterally make all these things
calm amid recent domestic protests and foreign policy

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firestorms. She even joked that the
clearly animated passionate Biden we saw at the

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State of the Union made it seem
like he was on drugs, a brutal

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zing that also conveniently called back to
the conservative obsession with Biden's mental acuity.

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In any case, Saki praised Team
Biden's tactics of proactively setting concrete rules like

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muted mics and no live audiences,
smart moves to try containing the inevitable tornado

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of chaos that would be Trump unbound
on a debate stage. But at the

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end of the day, the former
press sect doesn't seem confident the former president

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will submit to such restraints without a
fight, setting the stage for yet another

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dragged out, bad faith squabble seemingly
designed to derail the proceedings through obstructive brinksmanship.

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Hey, at least we know Saki
will be waiting in the MSNBC wings

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to provide her trademark acerbic commentary when
the whole thing inevitably devolves into a circus.

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She may be skeptical about the debates
happening, but I'm fully confident her

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biting snark will be in mid season
form no matter what transpires. Biden on

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Sunday warned graduates at one of the
country's most revered African American academic institutions of

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extremist forces aligned against the meaning and
message of Morehouse College, in a commencement

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address that sought to lay out the
stakes of the twenty twenty four election.

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Because nothing fires up a college crowd
like ominous warnings about nefarious forces, graduates,

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this is what we're up against,
Biden said during a twenty seven minute

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speech that leaned heavily into themes of
faith and democracy in an appeal to black

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voters. Many more House students and
faculty criticized Biden's participation when it was announced

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because of his support for Israel's war
in Gaza. About a mile away,

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pro Palestinian protesters held a rally organized
under the banner of Say No to Genocide.

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Joe speaking at Moorhouse. Speaking of
graduations, Trump attended his son Baron's

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high school graduation on a day off
from court. No, not Baron's day

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off from court Donald's. Trump posted
on his truth social knockoff going to Baron's

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high school graduation. Great student,
wonderful boy, very exciting. DJT.

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Yes, because there's nothing more heartwarming
than a dad bragging about his son's academic

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achievements while on trial for felony crimes. Solid priorities there, Don the former

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president arrived sporting a black suit and
a blue tie, no doubt carefully coordinated

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to match the colors of the private
prep school that costs more per year than

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most Americans make. Just your average
related billionaire dad experience. Trump and Milania

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occasionally clapped and waved at the direction
of where the graduates were. Wow,

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what engaged parenting. I'm sure Baron
will cherish those fleeting moments of acknowledgment forever.

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After the very quick and subdued celebration, it was right back on the

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grift for Trump with a fundraiser in
Minnesota, because what better way to commemorate

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your youngest son's milestone than to immediately
jet off and keep begging rich people for

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money. You've got to hand it
to the guy, though shamelessly using his

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kid's graduation to rile up his base
and fundraise off the fake outrage that he

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might miss it. Genius level exploitation
of his own family there. Baron's a

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real lucky kid to have such a
caring father. Always putting him first.

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