From National Review.com (July 10):
On the menu today: Joe Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, refuses to answer questions under oath before Congress about his assessment of the former president’s health while he was in office. Elsewhere, progressives ask why the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement workforce needs to be so large, ignoring the scale of the task before the agency, and wondering about a not-so-long-ago doomsday prediction.
The Biden Health Coverup Continues
The U.S. is not supposed to end up in a situation where it has a doddering old man as president. Many people have a role in ensuring the good physical and mental health of the president, but high among them is the president’s physician.
At the end of February 2024, White House physician Kevin O’Connor declared that Biden “continues to be fit for duty and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exceptions or accommodations.” This diagnosis came several months after Biden’s inability to remember dates and the sequence of events during his testimony to special counsel Robert Hur.
Subsequently, in books like Original Sin, the American people learned that while in office, the former president was forgetting the names of national security adviser Jake Sullivan and communications director Kate Bedingfield; didn’t recognize DNC chairman Jaime Harrison, Representative Eric Swalwell, or actor George Clooney when he met them despite knowing them for years; was “disoriented” and “out of it,” mouth agape, during his rare cabinet meetings, and so on. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote, “Biden’s physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair. . . . The doctor often argued with Biden’s political officials to get more rest time into the president’s schedule. O’Connor sometimes quipped that Biden’s staff members were trying to kill him, while he was trying to keep him alive.”
That certainly makes it sound like O’Connor’s publicly released diagnosis was not accurate, and represented happy-talk that contradicted his private diagnosis.
In fact, according to Original Sin, by February 2024, Biden’s political advisers contemplated having Biden undergo a cognitive exam to dispel the increasingly loud questions about his mental health and acuity. O’Connor reportedly argued against giving Biden one, insisting that he saw the president frequently and never saw any reason for concern.
O’Connor never conducted any media interviews or answered any questions from the media about the president’s health during Biden’s presidency.
The American people have a lot of indisputably fair, overdue questions for Dr. O’Connor. But apparently, he is not interested in answering any of them:
O’Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment rights Wednesday and did not answer questions during a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee.
“It’s now clear there was a conspiracy to cover up President Biden’s cognitive decline after Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician and family business associate, refused to answer any questions and chose to hide behind the Fifth Amendment,” said Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky).
“The American people demand transparency but Dr. O’Connor would rather conceal the truth. Dr. O’Connor took the Fifth when asked if he was told to lie about President Biden’s health and whether he was fit to be President of the United States.”
Now, only Joe Biden has the authority to say, “I waive my right to doctor-patient confidentiality.” If there was no coordinated effort to hide the truth about Biden’s health while he was president, you would think Biden would want O’Connor to testify, truthfully and completely. By not waiving doctor-patient confidentiality, Biden is putting O’Connor in a difficult position where he cannot explain and defend his diagnosis of the president’s health, harming the doctor’s reputation.
Biden could have said O’Connor had his permission to answer all questions about his diagnosis of the president’s health. But Biden hasn’t done that.
Recall that for a very short time in April, Biden launched an unofficial “comeback tour” after the opening months of a post-presidency where reportedly he hadn’t reached out to a single member of Congress for a chat at all. When Biden did appear on The View in early May, he continued to insist that if he had stayed in the race, he would have won, and that he “wasn’t surprised” that Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election. His wife Jill finished many of his answers.
Four days before the official publication of Original Sin, the Bidens announced that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer. The morning after the announcement, oncologist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel shocked the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe by declaring, “Oh, he’s had this for many years, maybe even a decade, growing there and spreading. ”
While we’re at it, someone should ask O’Connor why he concluded that Biden didn’t need to get a PSA test during his presidency. [read more]
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