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President Donald Trump called for Joe Biden to take to a drug test before Tuesday\u2019s presidential debate, repeating a claim, without evidence, that the Democrat\u2019s public appearances have been affected by drug use.<\/p>\n
In a Sunday-morning tweet, sent while en route to his private golf club in Virginia, Trump said that he would \u201cagree to take one also.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump first raised the idea of drug testing in August, saying Biden\u2019s debate performances during the Democratic primary drastically improved before his head-to-head matchup in March with his main opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n
The president has offered no proof that Biden has taken drugs to improve his public speaking.<\/p>\n
Trump, 74, has argued for months that Biden, 77, is mentally diminished, an unsubstantiated claim that had the effect of lowering expectations for the Democrat\u2019s debate performance this week.<\/p>\n
Trump has since tried to raise the bar by comparing the Biden\u2019s decades-long career in politics to his relatively short one. \u201cHe\u2019s been doing this for 47 years; I\u2019ve been doing it for four years,\u201d Trump told reporters Saturday when asked about the debate.<\/p>\n
Biden hasn\u2019t responded to Trump\u2019s drug-testing comments, but in an interview on Saturday compared the president to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels for his strategy of repeating a \u201clie\u201d enough times with the aim of making it common knowledge.<\/p>\n
The comment was made in response to a question about how Biden would confront repeated false accusations from Trump that he\u2019s a socialist.<\/p>\n
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