Joe Biden‘s doctor gave a puzzling response when asked if he was the president’s physician after being ambushed on the White House lawn.
Kevin O’Connor was walking along the driveway trying to get around anti-Israel protest blockades when reporters asked if he was the president’s doctor.
‘I don’t know. I don’t know,’ O’Connor replied while briskly walking toward the White House.
The former US Army medic then said Biden’s health and mental cognition were ‘excellent’ and he saw no need to give the president a cognitive test.
O’Connor, known to Biden and others around the White House simply as ‘doc’, has been a part of the president’s life for more than a decade and was a central figure to the family when Biden’s son Beau was dying of cancer.
The elusive doctor has never given an interview or press conference since Biden took office in January 2021, or even before that, and rarely makes statements.
When confronted by the New York Post on Thursday and asked if he was Biden’s doctor, he initially replied ‘I don’t know. I don’t know’ before confirming he was.
Smiling as he said ‘It’s excellent’ when asked how Biden’s health was, he then added that he would ‘probably not’ brief the press about it.
‘I hope not,’ O’Connor replied when asked if that could change before the end of Biden’s term in January.
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IS COGNITIVE TEST PERFORMED ON JOE BIDEN?
The reporter asked: ‘Is there a reason you didn’t perform a cognitive test on him?’ to which O’Connor explained, ‘We don’t need to. He’s here every day.’
O’Connor said there was no truth to speculation that the president was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, insisting ‘No, he’s good’.
