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Exchange of the Day

April 7, 2024 at 10:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump was interviewed on the Hugh Hewitt Show:

HEWITT: Now you have said you’ll debate him anywhere, anytime. Do you think he’ll agree to any debates?

TRUMP: Yeah, anywhere, anytime.

HEWITT: Do you think he’ll agree?

TRUMP: I don’t think so, but I hope he does. I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning. By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going on there. I want to debate. And I think debates, with him, at least, should be drug tested. I want a drug test.

HEWITT: Mr. President, are you suggesting President Biden’s using cocaine?

TRUMP: I don’t know what he’s using, but that was not, hey, he was higher than a kite. And by the way, it was the worst, it was the worst address I’ve ever seen, the State of the Nation. I’ll tell you, State of the Union, that’s not State of the Union, because he doesn’t represent us properly. That, I can tell you. But he’s obviously, he’s being helped in some way, because most of the time, he looks like he’s falling asleep. And all of a sudden, he walked up there and did a poor job. But he was all jacked up.

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