Biden White House Doc: A Criminal?
I’m old.
Old enough to remember Watergate. (I was hired at The Washington Post in 1975, when both Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were still on the staff.)
Old enough to remember Iran Contra. (I spent five months covering the 1994 Chuck Robb v Oliver North race for U.S. Senate in Virginia and had first-hand interviews about that scandal.)
Definitely old enough to remember the Monica Lewinsky affair. (Side note: My mother died on September 16, 1998. On the night before she left us, the TV news featured a story about Bill Clinton and the intern who was giving him hummers in the Oval Office. My mother’s last words, before she slipped into a coma: “Disgusting man.”)
These were all major scandals involving the White House.
However, none approached the magnitude of what we just witnessed in America.
Joe Biden, the President of the United States, was so mentally incapacitated that he was functioning for just a couple of hours a day. His family and inner circle attempted to hide his condition from the country and formed a human shield around the decrepit man.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is attempting to find out just how far gone the presidential garden gnome was by he end of his term and who exactly was involved in the deception. Most importantly, the committee is asking who exactly was president for the last two years of Joe Biden’s autopen presidency.
To that end, Chair James Comer of Kentucky subpoenaed Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician during the Biden years, to ask if he was ever instructed to lie about the president’s health to the American public.
O’Connor refused to answer. He cited two reasons. One, was patient doctor privilege. That’s laughable, considering that by allowing the doctor to make public statements about the president’s “robust” health and mental acuity during his presidency, Biden already waived that privilege.
Shockingly, O’Connor also invoked his 5th Amendment right against incriminating himself.
Wait. What?
This is tantamount to admitting that the doctor committed a crime. Poor O’Connor, whoever was operating the autopen forgot to give him a pardon.
It is imperative that Comer seek approval to grant O’Connor immunity from prosecution in return for the doctor’s key testimony. He also needs to mount a vigorous legal challenge to the patient doctor privilege, which clearly doesn’t apply here.
In case you were wondering - as I was - who pays the White House physician, it’s you and me. The taxpayers. The salary ranges from $190,000 to $350,000, depending on the physician’s rank (typically a Navy captain or rear admiral) and years of service. The doctor also gets a $45,000 housing allowance and a food allowance.
In other words, he’s a public servant. Not the personal valet of the president.
The physician is supposed to make sure the president is in tip-top health and tradition has it that the doctor will report to the people each year on the condition of the president.
To be clear: The physician doesn’t work for the president, he works for the American people. Guaranteeing that our president is healthy and mentally sharp.
If the doctor’s annual report is full of lies aimed at misleading the public into believing that a brain-addled cancer patient is fit for office, there ought to be a criminal investigation into his behavior.
If O’Connor was lying at the behest of the president or his family, that should be disclosed.
Remember, during O’Connor’s reign, he was asked repeatedly if he gave Biden a cognitive test. Each time he replied glibly that it wasn’t necessary. Biden had a cognitive test daily in the job.
Sigh.
It isn’t just Biden’s mental health that was a concern. Four months after leaving the White House, Biden revealed that he had metastatic prostate cancer that spread to his bones.
Questions were raised about PSA tests Biden would have been given during routine physicals. News reports claim Biden was so old he probably didn’t get those tests.
Good Lord.
Joe Biden wasn’t just any old man with a malfunctioning weenie. This was the president of the United States, who was running for re-election at age 81. If he wasn’t given the prostate test, that’s malpractice. If Biden was tested and the cancer diagnosis was kept from the American people, that too should amount to malpractice.
Either way, O’Connor has some explaining to do.
In addition, no one has explained why a Parkinson’s specialist visited the White House eight times in eight months. Comer needs to subpoena that doctor too.
After O’Connor’s evasive apearance before the House committee on Wednesday, Comer issued this statement:
WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after Dr. O’Connor pled the Fifth at his deposition:
“It’s 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. 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. Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a coverup from happening again. We will continue to interview more Biden White House aides to get the answers Americans deserve.”
No one knows who was president of the United States for about two years and a squirrely doctor is refusing to cooperate with Congress in telling the truth.
This is the biggest political scandal of our time. Go ahead and argue with me.
