Diane Kimura

An expert on Parkinson's disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden's physician, according to official visitor logs.

The expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and recently published a paper on Parkinson's. The logs, released by the White House in response to a request from The New York Times, document visits from July 2023 through March of this year. More recent visits, if there have been any, would not be released until later under the White House's voluntary disclosure policy.

This means that the visits didn't necessarily end in March, those are just the most recent logs that The Times has access to.

So, we have to ask the question, why is Dr. Cannard visiting Biden's White House, including visiting Biden's personal physician?

Are we supposed to believe that this neurologist is just hanging out at the White House monthly for a chat?

An array of neurologists who have not personally examined Mr. Biden said they observed symptoms in his public appearances that were consistent with Parkinson's or a related disease, such as hypophonic speech, forward flexed posture, a shuffling gait, masked face and irregular speech pattern. But they emphasized that a specific diagnosis could not be given without firsthand examination.

Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, previously told The Times that Dr. O'Connor had found no reason to re-evaluate Mr. Biden for Parkinson's disease since his physical in February. Mr. Bates also said the president had shown no signs of Parkinson's and had never taken Levodopa or other drugs for that condition.

Tim adds:

I don't know. Biden shows no palsy, no shaking or other such symptoms. Now, I certainly am no expert on the subject (although my wife has a similar condition) and certainly am not privy to Biden when he may show symptoms, but I do wonder about this. Not all Parkinson's patients have tremors.

Parkinson's causes dementia, I might add, usually within about ten years of the onset of symptoms.

Either way this is a person who does not belong near the levers of power as is Mr. Biden.

If Biden were not power hungry he would admit it and be a good example for many who suffer from it. But instead he denies it so as to win another term in office and not have to admit he's lying to the nation.

Iit should bepointed out that the Parkinson's expert was also a donor to Biden's campaign - a big one - and may simply have been invited for political reasons.

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