A two-time White House physician, Rep. Ronny Jackson, has lifted the lid on the most concerning signs of President Joe Biden’s mental decline observable as early as 2019.
Jackson joined the White House medical unit under George W. Bush in the mid-2000’s before serving as physician to the president from 2013 – 2018, tending to Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
The Republican congressman from Texas did not mince words when speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com about Biden’s fitness for the Oval Office with just 11 days left of his term.
‘I started talking about this in 2019 when I was running for office and when he was candidate Joe Biden,’ the Texan recounted, saying Biden displayed ‘the whole package’ of age-related cognitive and physical decline.
‘It was the cognitive stuff combined with the physical stuff. The way he shuffled when he walked, the stiff gate. He was confused. He had that blank, 1000 yard stare. He would forget the simplest things, you know, people’s names,’ Jackson explained.
‘I mean, he didn’t know exactly where he was at. Sometimes you could tell he was disoriented. All those things together. I mean, everybody’s seen it. I said this for the very beginning.’
Speculation about Biden’s declining mental state, put on public display during his disastrous debate with Trump in June, eventually led him to step down from his reelection campaign weeks later.
Jackson slammed those closest to the president, accusing them of covering up the president’s condition for their own political gain.
He said that includes his old subordinate, Kevin O’Connor, who currently serves as physician to Biden.
‘But a lot of people covered it up because, you know, they didn’t care about the country and they didn’t care about him,’ the Republican fumed.
Representative Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, the former White House physician to Obama and Trump, said Biden’s decline was clearly visible as early as 2019. He also slammed his former co-worker and Biden’s main doctor, Kevin O’Connor, for putting personal ambition above the wellbeing of the president and the country
Joe Biden squints and rubs his head while participates in a virtual meeting about mineral supply chains and clean energy manufacturing in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex February 22, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
Donald Trump shakes hands with White House Physician Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson, following his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, January 12, 2018
‘They cared about their own political ambitions and the power and the authority and the influence they had from being in his in his orbit,’ Jackson added.
O’Connor, like Jackson, joined the White House Medical Unit under George W. Bush before later working in the Obama administration.
The physician to the president has worked with the 82-year-old Biden since 2009, when he was assigned to the VP’s medical team.
A decorated military officer with 22-years experience, O’Connor has worked intimately with the Biden’s over the years.
He was alongside the Biden family as the president’s late son, Beau Biden, was dying from cancer. The physician also worked with Joe Biden’s brother James Biden to create a healthcare program for veterans in 2017.
Jackson excoriated O’Connor for his handling of the job, accusing the physician to the president of being a ‘part of the Biden crime family’ for hiding Biden’s decline.
‘He worked for me for a long period of time,’ the Republican shared. ‘He worked for me for eight years in the Obama administration. He was Joe Biden’s physician at the time.’
‘He’s part of the Biden crime family,’ Jackson said flat out before backtracking slightly.
Joe Biden and Kevin O’Connor in 2017 at a reception for Biden’s book ‘Promise Me Dad’
Physician to the president Kevin O’Connor
President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade at the White House with his physician Kevin O’Connor, Monday, August 28, 2023
‘I would imagine, I don’t, I can’t prove that yet, but I know he’s been intimately involved with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s brother [James],’ Jackson speculated.
‘And you know, there’s some evidence that he may have been involved in some of the stuff that was going on overseas. So, I mean, I don’t know, that’s still [to be determined].’
When pressed on how specifically Biden’s physician may have engaged in wrongdoing, Jackson demurred, though he did accuse O’Connor of not performing up to his obligations.
‘He shouldn’t have been, you know, complicit in covering all this up,’ the Texan said.
‘He has an obligation, not just to the to the president, his family, but to the country.’
The role of the physician to the president is not only to take care of the president, the but Office of the President, Obama’s former doctor continued.
Biden’s physician ‘knows that full well, and he’s completely betrayed the trust that the American people handed him in that position,’ the Republican said indignantly.
Telling the most powerful person in the world bad medical news surely seems like an unpleasant position to be in, but when it was as obvious as Biden’s decline, that would have been the right move, Jackson reasoned.
Jackson’s scathing review of Biden’s bill of health dating back to 2019 echoes concerns that have been raised by Republicans for years.
Both Hunter, 54, and James Biden, 75, have worked with Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor, Jackson claims
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the death of former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, at the Company House Hotel, in Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 29, 2024
President Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides (out of frame) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2024
But the allegations of Biden’s mental decline were confirmed in a Justice Department review of the president for his keeping classified documents at his Delaware home and Washington, D.C. office after having left government after serving as VP.
The report by special counsel Robert Hur published in February 2024 found Biden was a ‘elderly man with a poor memory.’
Biden also has ‘diminished faculties in advancing age’ the report continued.
The issue for the president finally came to a head during his awful presidential debate performance against Trump in June where he stumbled his way through a nationally televised broadcast leaving many of his most ardent supporters aghast at his obvious, undeniable decline.
Weeks later, after his polling numbers plummeted head-first off a cliff and much inter-party deliberation between the Democrats, Biden dropped his presidential bid.
His age and decline had become too untenable of a position to defend from the ruthless critiques of both liberals and conservatives.
‘You know, people don’t need me to tell them this. Everybody’s had a relative at some point or another that’s gone through this. It’s a sad thing to see, but it’s not something that we should tolerate in the in the in the Oval Office, as a commander in chief, the head of state.’
‘But everyone’s seen it, and everyone recognizes it for what it is, because they all had someone close to them that’s gone through this,’ Jackson said of Biden’s age-related decline.
President Joe Biden looks on during a joint press conference with the German Chancellor prior to a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, on October 18, 2024
President Joe Biden leaves after attending the 102nd National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Ellipse at The White House and President’s Park in Washington, DC, USA, 05 December 2024. This year’s tree is a 35-foot Red Spruce from Virginia’s George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
Back on the question of how Biden made it so far without more age-related scrutiny, Jackson further explained he is worried of the precedent set by the president’s White House inner circle.
‘Who was making those decisions in the White House?’ Because honestly, I don’t think it was Joe Biden, I think that there were people that were unelected officials, probably people with very little experience at work in the West Wing of the White House that were making a lot of these decisions, and it’s put the country at risk.’
That risk is so grave, he said, that there needs to be a full investigation.
‘I mean you still got, you know, a week or two left here where anything could happen. He’s still the commander in chief, and he’s obviously completely cognitively unfit for this particular role. So I’m still worried about it,’ the Republican said.
‘It’s a situation that is serious enough that we need to look back and we need to investigate, see what happened. We need to find out exactly how this happened. Who covered this up? And, you know, I mean, if we don’t, it’ll just happen again.’
‘Historically, it’s not the first time that we’ve had a incompetent, disabled president that hasn’t been making the decisions, but we can’t let that happen again. The world’s too dangerous.’
