Joe Biden replied on Tuesday May 10 to a Republican senator who considers him mentally incapable of fulfilling his duties, a speech dear to supporters of Donald Trump this time openly taken up by an elected member of the Conservative party.
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"
I think this man has a problem
," said the American president when asked, after a speech about inflation, about Rick Scott's remarks.
This Florida senator issued a statement of rare virulence against the Democratic president on Tuesday: “
Joe Biden is not well.
He is not fit to perform his duties.
He is incoherent, incompetent and confused.
Half the time he doesn't know where he is
.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump and the Republican billionaire himself have been spreading hints and allegations about the health of 79-year-old Joe Biden for years now.
But this discourse is rarely taken up by tenors of the Republican Party in terms as virulent as those used by Rick Scott.
The senator from the southeastern United States has just unveiled an economic program for the country which has made it one of the favorite targets of the Biden administration, which criticizes the Republicans for wanting to tax the middle class more while weakening the social Security benefits.
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Joe Biden, campaigning for the legislative elections in November, strongly criticized this plan which he called an "
ultra MAGA
" program, in reference to his predecessor Donald Trump's slogan, "
Make America Great Again
".
"
I didn't expect the 'ultra MAGA' Republicans, who seem to control the Republican Party today, to be able to control
" that party, he said Monday.
“
I would never have anticipated this.
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