{"id":2289965,"date":"2024-07-06T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-parkinsons-disease-specialist-visited-white-house-10-times-since-2022-visitor-logs-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:30:31","slug":"top-parkinsons-disease-specialist-visited-white-house-10-times-since-2022-visitor-logs-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-parkinsons-disease-specialist-visited-white-house-10-times-since-2022-visitor-logs-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Parkinson\u2019s disease specialist visited White House 10 times since 2022: Visitor logs &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-parkinsons-disease-specialist-visited-white-house-10-times-since-2022-visitor-logs-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - 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Cannard\u2019s name shows up in the visitor logs 10 times since Nov. 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s highly likely they were talking about Biden,\u201d Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) told the <em>New York Post<\/em>, who first <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/06\/us-news\/president-bidens-physician-met-with-parkinsons-disease-specialist-in-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a> on the Jan. meeting. \u201cHe should only be [regularly] treating the president and the first family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson served as physician to the president under the Obama and Trump administrations from 2013 to 2018. He has issued a number of warnings about Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-proposes-6-5b-deal-to-reopen-schools-by-early-april\/\" title=\"Calif. proposes .5B deal to reopen schools by early April\">declining mental health<\/a>, and accused O\u2019Connor and first lady Jill Biden of having \u201cled the cover up\u201d to hide the president\u2019s well-being from the public.<\/p>\n<p>In all but two of Cannard\u2019s visits dating back to late 2022, he is listed as having visited Megan Nasworthy, a liaison between Walter Reed Medical Center and the White House. Aside from the January meeting with O\u2019Connor, he met with someone listed as \u201cDr. Joshua Simmons\u201d on Nov. 15, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Reed Medical Center cardiologist John E. Atwood was also in the meeting, according to the logs. <\/p>\n<p>Cannard published a paper in the Parkinsonism &#038; Related Disorders journal that focuses on the \u201cearly stage\u201d of Parkinson\u2019s disease in August 2023, just months before the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the visit, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/White-House\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> pointed to the wide range of personnel and jobs doctors visiting are responsible for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat the thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds,\u201d the White House told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In Biden\u2019s interview with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos, released on Friday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3071696\/biden-wont-commit-cognitive-test-abc-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>declined<\/a> to commit to taking an independent cognitive test. Biden claimed his \u201cbad\u201d debate performance was \u201cno indication of any serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3071094\/white-house-grilled-bidens-medical-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>admitted<\/a> at a meeting with Democratic governors that he had recently met with his doctor before the first presidential debate, despite the White House repeatedly denying he had any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-pressure-biden-to-bring-home-former-marine-imprisoned-by-russia\/\" title=\"Republicans Pressure Biden To Bring Home Former Marine Imprisoned By Russia\">medical examination<\/a> done. He also revealed that he would try to curtail his schedule to have fewer events after 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden aides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/29\/two-bidens-trump-debate-2024-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> <em>Axios<\/em> last week that the president is functional and engaged from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Outside of that time period, or while traveling abroad, aides said, the president is more likely to have miscues.<\/p>\n<p>After his rough showing at the first debate, Biden has faced mounting pressure to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Political heavyweights on both sides of the aisle have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3064699\/what-political-heavyweights-said-biden-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>criticized<\/a> his performance, and many prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3068503\/democrats-who-say-biden-should-drop-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>members<\/a> of his own party have called on him to let someone else take on Trump in November.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1695980\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1695980\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top specialist in Parkinson&#8217;s disease has visited the White House multiple times since 2022, meeting with President Biden&#8217;s physician and other officials. Rep. Ronny Jackson has raised concerns about the frequency of these visits and their potential connection to Biden&#8217;s health. The White House has defended the visits, stating that a variety of specialists from Walter Reed Medical Center visit the complex to treat military personnel. Biden has faced criticism and pressure to drop out of the 2024 presidential race following a rough debate performance and concerns about his cognitive health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":2289966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/joe-biden-doctor-photo.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34075,7524,34076,32127],"class_list":["post-2289965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-specialist","tag-visitor-logs","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/joe-biden-doctor-photo.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}