Fox News host and close Trump ally Maria Bartiromo offers surprising view on his claim Joe Biden is actually 'jacked up' on drugs

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo challenged Republicans claiming that President Joe Biden was on drugs during his State of the Union address in March.

Bartiromo, who is a close ally of Donald Trump, interviewed Florida Republicans Rep. Byron Donalds and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on Sunday. 

'Well, I just want to say, look. These are obviously very serious charges, that he's jacked up,' Bartiromo said. 'We don't know that, we're not doctors. We have no idea.'

Trump renewed demands for a drug test from Biden before the debates during a political speech in Minnesota on Saturday. 

'I'm gonna demand a drug test too, by the way. I am. No, I really am,' he said. 'I don't want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite.'

Donald Trump has called for Joe Biden to be drug tested before the debates 

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) agreed with Trump, calling for Biden to be drug tested before the Republican presidential debates.

'You could tell that when Joe Biden comes in, he's jacked up, and then, as the hour goes by, he slowly winds down,' he said.

Donald's said that Biden's energy levels were inconsistent and that voters in the presidential election needed to know why.

'So the American people need to understand if they're giving him some injection so that he can actually look like he's coherent and he's with us, because the other parts of the time he's not,' he said.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo at her studio in New York City 

Maria Bartiromo speaks onstage at a Women's Forum in New York City

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) agreed with Donalds, raising concerns about Biden's ability to serve a president.

'[W]e need to make sure that this individual is essentially capable, not just of leading this country, but he can make those tough decisions,' she said. 'And, frankly, I'm not trying to be funny here, we don't necessarily trust that he can do that right now.'

In April, Trump suggested that Biden was on cocaine during his State of the Union speech, referring to the cocaine found at the White House.

'I think what happened, you know that white stuff, that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine at the White House, I don't know, I think something is going on there,' he said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference

Both members of Congress called for Biden to release the audio recordings of his interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur during the investigation of his personal possession of classified documents.

Hur concluded after the interviews that Biden was 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' 

Although the transcripts of the interviews were released, Republicans are trying to obtain the audio recordings of Biden.

Biden asserted executive privilege last week, preventing the audio tapes from being released to Congress.

U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) after attending Trump's 'hush money' trial in New York City 

'The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,' White House Counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a letter to Republicans, explaining why Biden was blocking their release.

'Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate,' he added.