Wednesday, May 21, 2025

"SUBPOENA BIDEN'S DOCTOR!"

All I can say to that is good luck.

The real meat here that goes to the story arc is at the top of the tweet, "The Biden team says the last time Joe Biden received a PSA test for prostate cancer was 2014." Let's recall that for days, oncologists nad urologists have been saying on the news that the PSA test is "the gold standard in prostate cancer screening". On Megyn Kelly's podcast, urologist Dr David Samadi said "it is either medical malpractice or a lie that the former president did not know he had cancer".

But let's look at the timeline. We know, especially from various references on Hunter's laptop, that at least as of early 2015, Joe was weighing a run for president in 2016, but Barack Obama put that idea to rest later in the year, at least after Beau's death on May 30. The Hill reported in 2019,

Former President Obama in 2015 pushed former Vice President Joe Biden not to run for president in 2015, The New York Times reported Sunday.

According to the Times, Obama “gently pressed” Biden on his 2016 presidential ambitions over several weeks. He then ultimately had a strategist deliver a discouraging assessment to Biden of his odds in the race against then-front runner Hillary Clinton.

“The president was not encouraging,” Biden later said, according to the Times.

Obama believed at the time that Clinton, who would become the Democratic presidential nominee and lose to President Trump in the general election, had the best chance to win, according to the Times. Obama also didn’t think Biden was in the right state of mind to campaign for president following the death of his son, Beau, the newspaper reported.

Nevertheless, we now hear that, for whatever reason, Joe's doctor stopped doing PSA tests the prior year. It's hard to avoid thinking the numbers were already concerning, even for a 2016 presidential run, and if Joe decided, which he must have done, that he'd run in 2020 instead, there'd be only a downside to resuming them. But Joe would have to convince doctor after doctor not to run PSA tests, right, when it would be somethng verging on malpractice not to run them? Well, no. Joe has had the same doctor ever since he started as vice president in 2009:

Dr. Kevin O’Connor served as the 82-year-old’s official physician during his White House stint — and repeatedly insisted for years that Biden was in top mental shape despite his obvious cognitive decline.

O’Connor worked with Biden during his vice presidency, too.

After more than two decades in the Army, O’Connor joined the White House Medical Unit under then-President George W. Bush. He was only supposed to serve six months with the new vice president, Biden, but ended up staying on for years.

“That didn’t work out and, so, I ended up doing the whole eight years with him,” O’Connor joked in a rare 2023 interview with the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He retired when Obama and Biden left office, but remained on as Biden’s personal physician. He was brought back as the top White House doctor when Biden was elected president.

The link continues,

Critics have, in the past, criticized the close relationship between the doctor and former prez — with Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) telling The Post just last month that “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,” Jackson said at the time.

President Trump, for his part, honed in on O’Connor’s prior positive health assessments just after the cancer diagnosis came to light.

. . . “I think someone is going to have to speak to his doctor.”

This seems to be a pattern: Joe discovered during his time as vice president which people he could trust and brought them with him, or back into the fold, once he became president. Another was his Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle:

In the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Secret Service has faced mounting scrutiny for its failure to prevent the attack.

Much of the criticism has been aimed at the agency's director, Kimberly Cheatle. Cheatle, who was appointed to the role by President Joe Biden in 2022, had previously been the senior director in global security at PepsiCo.

Prior to her time at PepsiCo, she had served with the Secret Service for more than 25 years, including on Biden's security detail while he was vice president.

. . . "When Kim served on my security detail when I was Vice President, we came to trust her judgement and counsel," Biden said. "She is a distinguished law enforcement professional with exceptional leadership skills, and was easily the best choice to lead the agency at a critical moment for the Secret Service."

Cheatle resigned in disgrace a little over a week after the Butler assassination attempt. There seems to be an impression, rightly or wrongly, that Joe could trust her to be competent when it involved protecting Joe's secrets but incompetent when it really counted. But back to why Joe needed Dr O'Connor:

A top Parkinson’s disease specialist held a meeting with President Joe Biden’s physician at the White House earlier this year, according to records, though the circumstances of the meeting are unclear.

Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, met with White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor at the White House in mid-January, according to White House visitor logs.

Cannard has visited the White House three times this year, according to the visitor logs: A January 17 meeting with O’Connor, and with another staffer on January 26 and March 28. Cannard has visited the White House at least eight times over the past year, according to the logs, beginning late July 2023 and ending with the March 28 meeting. Only the January 17 meeting lists O’Connor as the person who was visited.

O’Connor took the unusual step Monday night of releasing a letter offering some details about Cannard’s visits to the White House, following days of speculation about the president’s health, writing that “President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”

This was briefly picked up by the media after Biden's June 2024 debate performance, but so far, only Dr Drew Pinsky has raised the issue in the context of Joe's recent diagnosis, on the Viva Frei podcast below:
At 8:29:

If you have someone who's already Parkinsonian, which he was, that's not a debatable point, any medical student looking at a video of Joe Biden three years ago, if they could not diagnose Parkinsonism, they would be remediated. It's, it's, look, if I saw a picture of a rash I could tell you wnat it's likely to be, same thing is true in certain neurological conditions, you look at the video the way you would look at them across the room, it's the same thing. And Parkinsonism is what he has. Why does he have it? They never told us.

According to the Cleveland Clinic,

Parkinsonism is an umbrella term that refers to brain conditions that cause slowed movements, rigidity (stiffness) and tremors. These conditions can happen for many reasons, including genetic mutations, reactions to medications and infections.

Parkinsonism refers to several conditions — including Parkinson’s disease — that have similar symptoms and features. However, Parkinson’s disease makes up about 80% of all cases of parkinsonism, making it the most common form by far.

Parkinson's may also be a cause of Joe's generally observed "cognitive decline". According to the Alzheimer's Association:

Parkinson’s disease dementia is a decline in thinking and reasoning skills that develops in some people living with Parkinson’s at least a year after diagnosis. The brain changes caused by Parkinson’s disease begin in a region that plays a key role in movement, leading to early symptoms that include tremors and shakiness, muscle stiffness, a shuffling step, stooped posture, difficulty initiating movement and lack of facial expression.

It's hard to avoid thinking that Dr O'Connor was in his position as White House Physician specifically to prevent any formal diagnoses of dementia, prostate cancer, or even Parkinson's, and to discredit even informed questions about such conditions. That conditions like Stage 4 cancer or Parkinson's are incurable would inevitably raise the question of whether Joe was fit for office -- and in fact, if the public had been aware of them in 2020, it might well have changed the outcome of the election.

If nothing else, Joe's 2020 basement campaign was likely intended to prevent his medical conditions, which must have existed at the time, from coming to light.

But let's ask what might happen if Dr O'Connor is subpoenaed, per the demand in the tweet above. He'll likely cite medical confidentiality as a reason not to answer questions, but if it comes to that, he can even invoke the Fifth Amendment. I'm by no means sure we'll ever get good answers to necessary questions, at least from Dr O'Connor. Nor will we get them from Dr Jill, Hunter, or anyone else in the family.

posted by test @ May 21, 2025   0 Comments