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Nothing to See Here: Parkinson's Expert Visited White House Eight Times in Eight Months, Spoke With Joe's Doctor

By Eric Bolling Staff

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 1: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) arrives at the White House on July 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden was returning from Camp David. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

According to visitor logs, Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s expert, visited the White House eight times in eight months from July 2023 through March of this year.

Biden’s health has come under intense scrutiny since his abysmal debate two weeks ago.

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From The New York Times:

It was unclear whether Dr. Cannard was at the White House to consult specifically about the president or there for unrelated meetings. Dr. Cannard’s LinkedIn page describes him as “supporting the White House Medical Unit” for more than 12 years. His biography on Doximity, a website for health professionals, lists him as a “neurology consultant to the White House Medical Unit and the physician to the president” from 2012 to 2022, which would include the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump.

Records from the Obama administration, when Mr. Biden was vice president, show that Dr. Cannard made 10 visits in 2012 plus a family tour; four visits in 2013; and one in 2014. Records could not be immediately found online for 2015 or 2016. Mr. Trump rescinded Mr. Obama’s voluntary White House visitors disclosure policy, so records are not available for his four years in office.

Dr. Cannard did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The White House did not comment specifically on the purpose of his recent visits. “A wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat the thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said in a statement.

Mr. Bates said that the president “has been seen by a neurologist once a year” as part of his overall annual physical checkup and “that examination has found no sign of Parkinson’s and he is not being treated for it.” He declined to provide dates of any meetings between Mr. Biden and any of his specialists but said “There have been no neurologist visits besides the one for his physical per year, three in total.”

Cannard met on Jan. 17 with Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, as well as Dr. John Atwood, a cardiologist at Walter Reed, and another person in the early evening in the White House residence clinic, according to the logs.

Biden has denied claims he needs to be tested for age-related illnesses. He told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that he’s been “testing myself.”

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Meanwhile, former CNN analyst Chris Cillizza suspects President Biden is avoiding cognitive tests because he’s afraid of what he might find.

“I’m talking from a political survival perspective, would it make sense for Joe Biden to do a cognitive test? 100% absolutely yes,” Cillizza said. “I think that it would reassure people that there’s not anything more going on. It would help bolster his ‘it was one bad night’ regarding the debate argument. I think it would show people that he’s open and transparent in a way that I’ll say that Donald Trump really has not been. Yes, Donald Trump has apparently taken a cognitive test. He passed, he says he aced it. I don’t know what that means, but he apparently passed this cognitive test, this Montreal Cognitive Test.”

“I really do think it would behoove Biden to do it. Now why won’t he do it? Well, the kindest answer I can think of was, he won’t do it because he doesn’t think he needs it,” he added. “The doctors are saying he doesn’t need it, and he just doesn’t sort of want that distraction out there. The less kind answer, and the one I would really worry about if I was a Democratic elected official or a Democratic voter, is he’s worried that it might reveal something. That if he did do a cognitive test, it might reveal that he has some sort of illness or condition that might cause people to reassess whether he should be the presidential nominee, right?”

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More over at The New York Times:

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