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The White House won't explain why a Parkinsons' specialist visited 8 times in 8 months (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In fact, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre won't even confirm that the meeting took place — even though due to Biden's own policy, the doctor's eight visits are public information.

"I'm not going to confirm a name," Jean-Pierre said during a tense exchange with CBS reporter Ed O'Keefe. "It doesn't matter even if it is in the log. I'm not going to do that from here."

brump

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Biden's press people are somehow more annoying, on the whole, than Trump's were.

Holy fuck.

Trump had that one fail daughter kid who became governor because America

And spicy dipshit spicer

But all of Biden's PR people are quite literally the worst and/or more demonic people one could possibly place there. Like who the fuck saw Kirby schlubing around the pentagon and said "oh yeah, the American people will love this loser!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It was probably related to this

https://www.parkinson.org/blog/awareness/national-plan

President Biden Signs Parkinson's Bill into Law

On July 2, President Biden signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act into law. This is the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson’s disease (PD).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's not. Presidents don't single handedly formulate bills. There is very little need for him to consult an expert directly for it. His physician has now talked about the reason for the visits:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-parkinsons-doctor-white-house-symptoms-b2576348.html