WASHINGTON — Former White Home physician Kevin O’Connor will probably be amongst these grilled by Home Republicans for hiding President Biden’s cognitive decline from the American public, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) instructed The Submit.
“Dr. Kevin O’Connor will absolutely, positively be implicated in the cover-up of this. He is a massive, massive part,” stated Jackson, a doctor by commerce who served within the White Home Medical Unit below three presidents earlier than being elected to Congress, the place he now chairs the Home Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
“I guarantee you Kevin O’Connor has medical information that the American people don’t have,” Jackson went on. “He was probably putting President Biden on lots of medications that we have no clue of — in efforts to try to treat his cognitive decline.”
“I’ve known him for a long time; he’s part of the Biden family. He would do or say anything to cover up and protect that family, regardless of what it meant professionally for him,” he added. “This could not have been covered up without him — and Jill Biden — in particular.”
The Republican lawmaker stated a Home panel “will look into whether or not we actually had a shadow presidency for a large part of [Biden’s] term,” although it’s unclear whether or not any committee is making ready for the probe simply but.
The reclusive O’Connor, who instructed The Submit Biden’s psychological health was “excellent” simply 4 days after his boss was compelled out of the 2024 race, was requested final yr to come back in for questioning earlier than the GOP-led Home Oversight Committee, although it’s unclear if he ever responded to the voluntary request.
Jackson stated Home GOP lawmakers additionally need to haul in medical doctors and different consultants who could have “tested and evaluated” Biden, who was 82-years-old when working for re-election, for “Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and whatever else.”
One Parkinson’s specialist at Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart, Dr. Kevin Cannard, visited the White Home eight occasions between July 2023 and March 2024, per customer logs, although O’Connor harassed that simply three of these visits had been held with the president for annual physicals.
Requested whether or not People needs to be involved in regards to the visits, O’Connor instructed The Submit final July: “No, he’s good.”
The White Home earlier that yr stated O’Connor believed the commander-in-chief “doesn’t need a cognitive test” — whilst Biden had blended up the names of lifeless and residing overseas dignitaries in public remarks, and was not prosecuted by Robert Hur partially as a result of the particular counsel stated a jury would view him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Neurologist Dr. Tom Pitts instructed NBC Information after his debate in July 2024, “I could’ve diagnosed him from across the Mall,” including that Parkinson’s is “one of the easier movement disorders to diagnose” and pointing particularly to the president’s “rigidity,” “shuffling gait” and “slow movement.”
O’Connor, whom Biden affectionately referred to as “Doc,” by no means entered the chief mansion’s press briefing room to reply questions in regards to the president’s well being throughout his four-year time period.
He was succeeded by Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, who served as Trump’s private doctor within the forty fifth president’s first time period after Jackson.
Jackson stated that the Home probe of the Biden White Home will maintain accountable these “purposely lying to the American people and covering this up.”
“I was saying that this man was not fit to be president when he was candidate Joe Biden in 2020 — and I said that over and over and over and God knows how many times I was on TV,” Jackson stated, “talking about [how] this man is not in control.”
“Not only do they know now — but they knew, you know, two or three years ago,” he additionally identified. “These people are cashing in on, you know, telling the truth now and writing these books and stuff that’s coming out of the woodwork.”
Since Biden has left workplace, extra has emerged about critical issues by Dems about Biden’s flagging psychological acuity, together with early preparations if he had been to “die in office” and the way “out of it” he was earlier than his June 27 debate towards Trump, which longtime aide Ron Klain branded a “disaster.”
After the talk, former First Girl Jill Biden went on stage and now-infamously cheered her husband: “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question! You knew all the facts!”
The conservative Heritage Basis analyzed the president’s signatures on last-minute pardons we — together with for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the Home Choose January sixth Committee — and concluding that a number of had been signed with an autopen.
And Biden White Home sources later spilled to The Submit that one key aide could have unilaterally made choices to make use of the mechanical machine for official paperwork, although different officers disputed the cost.
Different pardons signed for Biden members of the family could have additionally shielded O’Connor, who was concerned in enterprise discussions with first brother James for a since-bankrupted rural hospital chain that was hit with fraud allegations by the Securities and Trade Fee and Justice Division.
James Biden was granted clemency from any potential prosecution of acts spanning from Jan. 1, 2014, to Jan. 20, 2024, on the president’s last day in workplace.
“Any of the things that he signed or put into law, are they legitimate?” Jackson requested. “That’s a great question.”
“Was he even aware of what was going on, much less actually, you know, in favor of the stuff he signed?”
The Submit reached out to O’Connor, reps for Jill Biden and the Home Oversight Committee for remark.
