Donald Trump tweets Joe Rogan calling Joe Biden a flashlight with a 'dying battery' - as Homeland Security warns Russia is trying to spread disinformation about Democratic candidate's mental health
- The president tweeted out video of the podcaster claiming Biden has dimming mental health
- He also retweeted a comment including the quote
- Trump has repeatedly tried to label Biden 'Sleepy Joe' and claims he is mentally 'shot'
- DHS issued bulletin warning that Russia is trying to push 'allegations about the poor mental health' despite them being 'unsubstantiated allegations'
- Biden on Monday said it is Trump who 'stumbles down ramps'
President Donald Trump compared rival Joe Biden to a flashlight with a 'dying battery' on Tuesday – the same day the Homeland Security Department warned Russia is seeking to spread 'disinformation' about Biden's mental health.
Trump's tweets on the subject were nothing new: he regularly tries to raise doubts about Biden's mental and physical fitness for office. On Tuesday, he tweeted out video of podcaster Joe Rogan, who made the flashlight comment on his show.
Trump also retweeted a printed tweet to drive home the point. 'Biden, to me, is like taking a flashlight with a dying battery and going for a long hike in the woods,' Rogan says in the clip.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to attack the mental fitness of rival Joe Biden. 'He's shot,' Trump said in Florida Tuesday
Trump has repeatedly tried to label Biden 'Sleepy Joe' and claims he is mentally deteriorating. 'He's shot,' Trump claimed again during a campaign speech in Florida Tuesday afternoon.
The attacks came as DHS put out its bulletin on Russia's efforts to muddy candidates' mental health, having taken no previous public action on the subject since a draft document was circulated in July.
The bulletin warned that Russian was pushing 'unsubstantiated allegations' that Biden was in 'ill-health,' and was reported by ABC News.
!['Look at how [Trump] steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps, OK?' Biden said](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/09/08/22/32936804-8711565-image-a-40_1599602163603.jpg)
'Look at how [Trump] steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps, OK?' Biden said
The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning Russia was pushing efforts to denigrate Biden's mental health
The bulletin was delayed after it got circulated in July for review by Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf
Trump asserted on Twitter that 'there were no mini-strokes'
A draft of the bulletin warned Russia was likely to 'denigrate' the health of U.S. candidates
Trump retweeted the podcaster's quote comparing Biden to a 'dying battery' Tuesday
The claim about promoting 'allegations about the poor mental health' appeared in a bulletin titled in draft form: 'Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election.'
'Russia is using both covert proxy websites and overt state media to amplify these allegations, often in conjunction with other election-related malign influence narratives, which is consistent with their tactics in 2016 to undermine a former presidential candidate,' it claims.
The bulletin, not intended for public release, predicts that 'this narrative will resonate with some American voters and reduce their confidence in him as a candidate.'
Last week, Trump kicked off a new defense of his own health by seeking to swat down a new book that reported Vice President Mike Pence was put on stand-by during Trump's unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Naval Medical Center outside Washington.
Trump tweeted 'there were no mini-strokes' even though the book, by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, did not mention mini-strokes.
Trump is 74. Biden is 78.
Biden responded to Trump's attacks on Monday. 'Look at how [Trump] steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps, OK?' he told ABC 27 News, a local affiliate in Pennsylvania.
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