Former White House physician and Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson accused Dr. Kevin O’Connor, President Joe Biden’s former physician, of a bombshell scandal on Monday.
Jackson said Biden’s doctor engaged in sexual misconduct while working at the White House during the Obama administration, but was protected from being fired for years by Biden.
Jackson told The Daily Caller that he regularly considered firing O’Connor while serving as Director of the White House Medical Unit, where he was responsible for signing O’Connor’s evaluations and fitness reports.
“One was because of some very inappropriate behavior on his part,” Jackson said.
Jackson alleged that O’Connor would take other people’s phones and put them down his pants near his groin as a prank, as well as make sexually inappropriate comments that upset female coworkers.
“Sexually inappropriate comments and little things, like he used to think it was very funny,” Jackson explained. “This is like something you would see a 12-year-old boy do, but one of the things he would do — and I’ve seen him do it several times — is he would meet people for the first time, and he would ask them for their phone. And they would give him their phone, and he would stick their phone in his pants in the area where his groin’s at, then give them their phone back. And he thought that was absolutely hilarious. And most people were just astonished — they were just kind of like, what’s going on here?”
But Jackson said he couldn’t fire O’Connor because President Barack Obama would have intervened to protect Biden’s friend.
“I didn’t get rid of him because I knew it would be an exercise in futility,” Jackson explained. “Because if I had gotten rid of him, it was made very clear to me that I would be immediately getting a phone call from President Obama telling me, ‘What are you doing? Joe Biden’s upset. You need to hire this guy back or you need to stop this. You can’t get rid of this guy.'”
Jackson added, “It was something we had to deal with.”
“It was very immature, but things like that and he would say things that were just kind of offensive to some of the women in the office,” Jackson continued. “And he thought they were funny. They were usually in the form of a joke, but a joke that was in very bad taste. But that was who he was.”
Jackson claimed the Biden family approved of O’Connor’s conduct, because Biden acted the same way.
“And of course the Bidens loved it,” Jackson said. “Joe Biden probably is cut from the same cloth in that regard.”
When asked if he was ordered by Obama not to fire O’Connor, Jackson explained said he never got explicit instructions — but didn’t need to, because it was understood.
“No, that’s what I would have assumed would have happened,” Jackson responded. “You know, it was pretty obvious to me and everybody else in the White House that if I had gotten rid of him and removed him, that I would have been in short order told to undo that and to put him back into that role because his patient, Joe Biden, would have insisted on it. And the vice president probably wouldn’t have called me.”
Jackson explained that Biden would have lost his cool if his favorite physician was removed for sexual misconduct.
“My assumption is he would have called the president or called somebody, like the chief of staff or somebody on President Obama’s staff, senior staff, and passed word to them that he would have wanted that reversed,” Jackson said.
Jackson served as Director of the White House Medical Unit and as physician to the president from 2013 to 2018 under both President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump, stepping down as director in December 2014 but continuing as physician. He was called back to the United States from Iraq to join the unit during President George W. Bush’s administration while on active-duty service in the United States Navy.
O’Connor served as an Army colonel and worked as Biden’s physician during the Obama administration when Biden was vice president.