SPERRY: Secrecy of the President’s Family ‘Doc’ Raises the Question: Are We Getting the Full Story on Biden’s Cognitive Health?
Joe Biden with Kevin O’Connor (Credit: GW SMHS/X)
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations:
For the next five months, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor will be one of the most powerful people in the world.
The White House physician is the chief medical arbiter of Joe Biden’s fitness to continue as commander in chief in a war-torn world until the end of his term in January. Even as the public has long expressed concern about the 81-year-old president’s mental capacities and Democratic Party leaders pressured Biden to drop his bid for a second term, O’Connor has repeatedly given his boss a clean bill of health.
As Republicans demand that the president be removed from office under the 25th amendment — and warn that adversaries such as China or Iran could use the lengthy lame-duck period to test Biden — O’Connor’s opinion looms as perhaps their biggest obstacle.
