Obama’s Doctor Gives Telling Update on Biden’s Health Amid His Aggressive Cancer Diagnosis
Ever since former President Joe Biden announced his cancer diagnosis, there have been questions about his health. This is pretty much on par for the course; the same has happened to public figures like King Charles and Kate Middleton, too, after their own diagnosis. It’s just that a lot of the conversation regarding Joe Biden’s health has to do with the question of whether he should have run for a second term in office. It matters not that, in the end, Kamala Harris took over or that she lost the election anyway.
Now, Barack Obama’s former physician is adding to the questions surrounding Biden. Jeffrey Kuhlman said in an interview that the former President’s doctor should have given him a cognitive test during his final year as president due to his age. The last report by White House physician Kevin O’Connor in February 2024 didn’t include any mention of neurocognitive testing. Biden was 81 at the time.
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“Sometimes those closest to the tree miss the forest,” Kuhlman said of O’Connor, who also expressed that such a test would have given voters a clearer picture of whether Biden was up for another 4 years in the Presidency.
“It shouldn’t be just health, it should be fitness,” Kuhlman said. “Fitness is: Do you have that robust mind, body, spirit that you can do this physically, mentally, emotionally demanding job?”
But Kuhlman stopped short of saying there was a conspiracy, calling O’Connor “a good doctor” who seemed to do his best to “give trusted medical advice.”
“I didn’t see that he’s purposely hiding stuff, but I don’t know that,” he added. “Maybe the investigation will show it.”
This criticism comes as Republicans subpoenaed O’Connor and President Donald Trump ordered White House attorneys to determine if Biden’s inner circle tried to conceal his alleged cognitive decline.
Biden’s diagnosis is of metastatic prostate cancer, the kind of diagnosis that sheds no light on his mental health, but reports about Biden’s alleged decline have run rampant even before he stepped aside to allow his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to run. These claims were in many ways strengthened by the book published by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, titled Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. The book is based on interviews with Democratic insiders.
Biden’s response to this whole thing was telling. During a Memorial Day event, the former President said. “You can see that I’m mentally incompetent, and I can’t walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” he told reporters. Meanwhile, his granddaughter, Naomi Biden, called the book “political fairy smut.”
The Republicans will continue to investigate the matter, but the facts remain that Joe Biden isn’t President anymore, and he didn’t even stay in the race until the end in 2024. If there was, indeed, a cognitive decline on his part, it clearly hurt the Democrats more than the Republicans and, perhaps, the party in power should be thankful for that.
