The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles Accuses Trump of Using Drugs: ‘Probably Microdosing Like His Friend Elon Musk’

LEMIRE: “So, Joanna, let’s get you to weigh in on this as well. This is an odd closing argument, to say the least, for former President Trump, and not just the bizarre swaying on stage the other night. But you’re welcome to chime in on that too. But this is Orban stuff. This is undemocratic stuff. And yet so few in his party are willing to speak out against it.”
COLES: “Yeah. I mean, look, I know that Donald Trump says he doesn’t drink, but this feels like drunken behavior. I think he’s probably microdosing, like his friend Elon Musk. It’s astonishing behavior and it’s irrational. And if we’re exhausted about this campaign, imagine how Donald Trump is feeling. He seems like he’s just lost the plot. Yesterday, he was saying Democrats are communists and they’re fascists. He’s all over the shop. I think he’s crawling to the end, just like the rest of us. And I agree with Elise that this isn’t the way to bring on undecided voters by suggesting we’re all hurtling towards, you know, Orban-type state. That’s — that’s not where people want to live. There’s a reason that people from abroad, I count myself one of them, but there’s a reason why immigrants want to come to America. They’re not getting in boats, driving to fascists or sailing to fascist countries. They’re trying to come to America because of what it represents, which is democracy.”
LEMIRE: “Yeah, and certainly, though no evidence the former president is microdosing or using any sort of drugs, the events of this week, the dancing the other night, his speech in front of the Economic Club yesterday, which we’re going to talk a little bit more later in — about later in this hour, certainly raising questions about his fitness for office. Again, the questions that President Biden had to face now renewed on Donald Trump.”