This post was originally published on this site
“ ‘No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man.’ ”
The line above came from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in an interview that was due to air in full on Thursday.
After President Donald Trump drew all sorts of attention last month for talking up his performance on a cognitive test, CBS News reporter Errol Barnett asked his rival in the 2020 White House race if he had taken such a test as well.
See:The doctor behind a cognitive test Trump took says ‘it’s supposed to be easy’
In responding to Barnett, Biden also said: “That’s like saying you, before you got in this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?”
“I know you’re trying to goad me, but I am so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president and debates,” the former vice president added. “I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical as well as my mental fitness and to, you know, to make a judgment about who I am.”
Democratic adviser and Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe tweeted that Biden “handled this bozo just right,” referring to Barnett. At the other end of the political spectrum, Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author who received a pardon from Trump in 2018, said on Twitter that “Biden’s response on taking a cognitive test is exactly why Biden needs to take a cognitive test.”
Opinion:As Trump and Biden trade age insults, older workers suffer
Watch the exchange here:
