Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician, said he received a “scathing” email from former President Barack Obama after he criticized Joe Biden’s cognitive health.
The email came after Jackson shared a video of one of the “mental gaffes” Biden made on Twitter, Jackson recalled in his memoir “Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values,” which was obtained by Fox News.
“Remember the cognitive test that I gave @realDonaldTrump? The one he aced! Sounds like somebody else might need some testing done!! Scary!!”? tweeted Jackson, who served in the White House under both Obama and George W. Bush.
Jackson said that within 20 minutes of the tweet, Obama had sent him an email.
In his message, Obama said he always spoke “highly” of Jackson in public and private, and considered him a “fine doctor and service member but also a friend”.
“That’s why I have to express my disappointment at the cheap shot you took at Joe Biden via Twitter,” the former president continued. “It was unprofessional and beneath the office that you once held. It was also disrespectful to me and the many friends you had in our administration”.
“You were the personal physician to the President of the United States as well as an admiral in the U.S. Navy,” the email added. “I expect better, and I hope upon reflection that you will expect more of yourself in the future”.
“Biden was on TV again, making crazy statements and concerning mental gaffes; he didn’t know what state he was in or what office he was campaigning for,” Jackson recalled.
“He apparently thought at one point that he was running for the Senate and later couldn’t remember what state he was campaigning in. This had been going on for months and was getting worse,” he explains.
Jackson was repeatedly mocked for saying an evaluation showed that Trump was in “excellent” mental shape and “had absolutely no cognitive or mental issues whatsoever”.
“Trump never made crazy statements like the ones Biden was making almost every day,” Jackson wrote in his book, “but these people were jumping up and down: ‘He’s not fit to be president; he needs a cognitive test!’”
Jackson said he considered responding to Obama’s email but ultimately decided against it. “So, upon reflection, I thought, You know what? Screw that guy! I’m not doing it,” he wrote. “I just walked away from it, which was the last time I had any contact with [Obama]”.
“It’s awfully ironic now, considering [Biden’s mental fitness] is all anyone, including the liberal media, can talk about,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.