(Washington) Visibly annoyed, Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden strongly rejected the idea of undergoing a cognitive test to assess his mental form, in the face of calls from his rival Donald Trump who urged him to pass, like him, this evaluation.
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"No, I didn't take a test. Why the hell should I take a test? Replied, in an interview broadcast Wednesday, an irritated Joe Biden.
At 77 years old, his mental agility is relentlessly questioned by Donald Trump's campaign team, 74 years, which he will face on November 3 during the US presidential election.
The former vice president earlier this summer said he was constantly tested, before clarifying that he was talking about the rigors of the presidential campaign and his encounters with voters.
"It's like telling you, before you come on this show, to do a test to see if you are taking cocaine or not. What do you think, eh? Are you a junkie ? ", He continues in front of the journalist of CBS who questioned him, for the convention of the American associations of black journalists (NABJ) and Hispanic (NAHJ) Americans.
This unexpected release immediately sparked a controversy on social networks. CBS reporter Errol Barnett later said he asked Joe Biden's campaign team to provide more context on the connection between a cognitive test and screening to detect if he had taken cocaine.
Donald Trump's campaign team immediately seized the end of the exchange to question his abilities, as Joe Biden, who has often spoken of his fight against stuttering, stammers and It is repeated several times to say: "And I am ready to let the American public judge my physical and mental health".
Donald Trump said at the end of July that he "excelled" in a cognitive test, during an interview that quickly went viral around the world.
Proudly, he indicated in particular that the test included, for example, "a question of memory". "They tell you to repeat words: person, woman, man, camera, TV. I said yes, it's nobody, woman, man, camera, TV ".
In apparent reference to those statements, the Democratic candidate added in the interview on Wednesday: "Well, if he can't tell the difference between an elephant and a lion. I don't even know what he's talking about. You saw him ? [...]. I can't wait for the opportunity "to debate Donald Trump.
