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Obama Sent Scathing Email To His Former WH Physician After He Questioned Biden’s Mental Health

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Former President Obama had some hard words for his former White House physician, according to a new book.

Obama sent Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas, a scathing email after the former White House doc questioned Joe Biden’s mental fitness while he was on the campaign trail in 2020.

Jackson revealed the email in his forthcoming book, a memoir titled, “Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values,” according to Fox News.

The former physician noted Biden’s “crazy statements and concerning mental gaffes” — a criticism he was imminently qualified to make after having served as the White House physician to Presidents George W. Bush, Obama, and Donald Trump.

Biden, for the record, was Obama’s vice president, so no doubt Jackson saw him frequently.

“Biden was on TV again, making crazy statements and concerning mental gaffes; he didn’t know what state he was in or what office he was campaigning for,” Jackson recalls of the 2020 campaign season. “He apparently thought at one point that he was running for the Senate and later couldn’t remember what state he was campaigning in. This had been going on for months and was getting worse.”

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Fox News noted:

For years, the media had accused Trump of being mentally unwell, and in 2018 many commentators mocked Jackson for saying that a cognitive evaluation Trump had taken showed he was in “excellent” mental shape and “had absolutely no cognitive or mental issues whatsoever.” 

“Trump never made crazy statements like the ones Biden was making almost every day,” Jackson writes, “but these people were jumping up and down: ‘He’s not fit to be president; he needs a cognitive test!’”

In 2020 as Jackson himself ran for Congress, he was bothered by the mainstream media’s lack of attention to Biden’s cognitive issues, Fox News continued.

He retweeted a video of Biden’s “latest cognitive misadventure” with this message: “Remember the cognitive test that I gave @realDonaldTrump? The one he aced! Sounds like somebody else might need some testing done!! Scary!!”

Jackson said within 20 minutes of that tweet, he received a “scathing” email from Obama.

“I have made a point of not commenting on your service in my successor’s administration and have always spoken highly of you both in public and in private. You always served me and my family well, and I have considered you not only a fine doctor and service member but also a friend,” Obama wrote in the email.

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“That’s why I have to express my disappointment at the cheap shot you took at Joe Biden via Twitter,” Obama continued.

“It was unprofessional and beneath the office that you once held. It was also disrespectful to me and the many friends you had in our administration,” he added.

“You were the personal physician to the President of the United States as well as an admiral in the U.S. Navy. I expect better, and I hope upon reflection that you will expect more of yourself in the future,” Obama told Jackson.

Jackson said that he was surprised and flummoxed by the email but ultimately chose not to respond to it. He considered calling Obama, but a friend — talk radio host Dan Bongino — reminded him that Obama did not do anything while Jackson was in the middle of a Senate confirmation battle to become Trump’s secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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“So, upon reflection, I thought, You know what? Screw that guy! I’m not doing it,” Jackson wrote. “I just walked away from it, which was the last time I had any contact with [Obama],” Jackson wrote.

“It’s awfully ironic now, considering [Biden’s mental fitness] is all anyone, including the liberal media, can talk about,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.

“Let it be known, as the White House physician for the last three presidents, I was the first to say that we have a serious problem with this man’s cognitive demise, and he will not make it four years in office. I’ve always said there would come a point where it wouldn’t be just me talking about it, but his own party, and sadly, that has proven to be the case. Joe Biden’s cognitive failures are on full display for the whole world to see,” Jackson said.

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