White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted on Tuesday that she had been mistaken when she stated neurologist Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease specialist, had not examined President Joe Biden in January. There has been speculation by , following Biden’s disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump last month, that he suffers from Parkinson’s.
The New York Post over the weekend that based on the White House visitor logs Cannard had come to the White House on Jan. 17 and met with Biden’s presidential physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
O’Connor released a Monday night, stating that Cannard had examined Biden during each of his annual physicals, the results of the most recent of which were made public in . The letter did not address why Cannard met with O’Connor on Jan. 17.
At the Tuesday White House news briefing, Associated Press reporter Seung Min Kim asked about the letter, noting it “didn’t seem to explicitly describe the nature of Dr. Cannard’s meeting with Dr. O’Connor.
” “So can you say whether that one meeting was related to care for the president himself?” she asked. “I can say that it was not,” Jean-Pierre answered. YESTERDAY: Karine Jean-Pierre denies the January meeting between Biden’s physician and a renown Parkinson’s expert was related to Biden’s care.
(ALSO YESTERDAY: KJP issues a late night correction admitting it was, in fact, related to Biden’s health.) — RNC Research (@RNCResearch).
