A political campaign is in complete disarray, fingers pointing in all directions, and now the physician to the president’s credibility and impartiality has been called into question. An unholy alliance of the White House, the Democrat Party, the media, and the medical establishment has foisted a conspiracy of silence and misinformation on the American public. To paraphrase the famous words of the late Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., during the Watergate hearings some 50 years ago: What did the president’s doctor know, and when did he know it?
It is no secret that President Biden has been in a steady physical and mental decline, particularly in the past two years. A national poll from January 2022 found that 49 percent of voters “disagreed with the statement that Biden is mentally fit,” and 54 House Republicans requested that he take a cognitive test. In 2022, I publicly recommended that he undergo a fitness-for-duty exam with cognitive testing, based on his memory lapses, inattentiveness, and frequent misstatements.
Yet the media focused (until Biden’s poor debate performance) on questioning Trump’s mental fitness while giving Biden a free pass and castigating anyone who noted his decline — even after Robert Hur released a report citing the president’s poor memory. Despite my recommendation and those of others, Biden’s next two annual physical exams specifically omitted cognitive testing. Until recently, only a few medical professionals have gone on the record with their concerns about the president’s ability to serve. But now even Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent,
