BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden will briefly transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday when he undergoes a “routine colonoscopy” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the White House said.
Biden drove early Friday to the medical center in the Washington suburbs for his first routine physical exam as president. Press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden would be under anesthesia during the procedure and would transfer power to Harris.
“As was the case when President George W. Bush had the same procedure in 2002 and 2007, and following the process set out in the Constitution, President Biden will transfer power to the Vice President for the brief period of time when he is under anesthesia,” she said. “The Vice President will work from her office in the West Wing during this time.”
Biden, 78, had his last full exam in December 2019, when doctors found the former vice president to be “healthy, vigorous” and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” according to a doctor’s report at the time. Biden is the oldest person to serve as president, and interest in his health has been high since he declared his candidacy for the White House in 2019.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who has been Biden’s primary care physician since 2009, wrote in a three-page note that the then-presidential candidate was in overall good shape.
In that report, O’Connor said that since 2003, Biden has had episodes of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that’s potentially serious but treatable. At the time, O’Connor cited a list of tests that showed Biden’s heart was functioning normally and his only needed care was a blood thinner to prevent the most worrisome risk, blood clots or stroke.
Biden had a brush with death in 1988, requiring surgery to repair two brain aneurysms, weak bulges in arteries, one of them leaking. Biden has never had a recurrence, his doctor said, citing a test in 2014 that examined his arteries.
Pursuant to the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, Biden will sign a letter to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives saying he is unable to discharge his duties while under anesthesia, making Harris the acting president, and will send them another letter upon the conclusion of the procedure to resume his duties.
Harris, the first woman, person of color and person of South Asian descent to be vice president, will be making history during the short time she is serving as acting president. She is scheduled to travel to Ohio later Friday once Biden resumes his duties.
On Friday afternoon, Biden is scheduled to take part in the annual pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey.
When Biden took office he brought O’Connor back to the White House to continue serving as his doctor, and O’Connor was expected to lead a team of experts in conducting Biden’s physical exam Friday.
Once the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, Biden’s team took intense steps to keep the then-candidate and now-president healthy as the virus raged and took a disproportionate toll among older populations. Biden received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020 and his second dose just two weeks before taking office. He received a booster dose, which regulators say provides more enduring protection, in late September.
The White House said Biden would authorize the release of a medical report, as is customary for presidents and presidential candidates. Former President Donald Trump, 75, was sharply criticized for releasing only cursory details on his health while running and serving in the White House, including concealing the seriousness of his COVID-19 illness a month before the 2020 presidential election.
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If bozo joe has any problem with **** it’s in his head so quite apparent they will be exploring the wrong end. Either way all they will find is an empty **** holder.
We don’t ha e to Wait any longer to find out what its like if Kamala Harris were to be the president as she will be the President while Whats his name, Joe Biden, will be in the Hospital… God Help Us All during this time when Kalama Harris is ” The President…
Sounds like the kind of Biden Brain surgery not even Ben Carson would attempt knowing the disease is not as dangerous than the cure. Polyps and tumors to Joe’s bowels are like Kamala’s are to the Democrat party and the American nation. They are mere irritants when small but when developed into full-sized Presidential stature can become deadly to the body politic leading to a slow and painful death. When dealing with co-rectums, you can’t ever correct’em so never vote them in in the first place.
They’d first off have to do a cranial-rectal inversion, before he’d be able to find his brain.
On the other hand… the useless government prostitute doesn’t do anything that requires any effort… it might be a good thing.
If they are looking for Joe’s brains up in there, they won’t find any. Could this be how the term, He has **** for brains started!
Timesup2022
No it won’t be “an empty **** holder”, it will be full of corrupt ****.
And for F. Joe Biden a Colonoscopy is exploratory brain surgery. 😯
Quote, ” Usually, Age and Wisdom walk Hand -In Hand, Sometome” ….. In President Joe Biden’s case, ” Age Comes Alone. ” we have seen democrat President Joe Biden Is always in need of a keeper, The ones pulling Joe Biden’s Strings seem to be in need of some help Themselves.
I am shocked, she immediately didn’t invoke the 25th amendment, and KICK HIM to the curb.
to much work… that’s out of the question for her… if it doesn’t require her laying on her back to advance… she not interested.
That’s at least her one saving grace..
SHE is too lazy to do anything really destructive to our nation (So far)…
“Biden, 78, had his last full exam in December 2019, when doctors found the former vice president to be “healthy, vigorous” and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” according to a doctor’s report at the time.”
There’s a royal misdiagnosis.
Joe gets to take it up the a** just like the American people—just in a different way.
Was there ever any doubt about Joe Biden’s Ability to carry out the duties of the President of The United States, why Joe Biden is As Mentally As ready to be President as Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumber would be.
True that.. IF HE WAS really “vigorous and healthy’, WHY NEED a colonoscopy, 10 months later?
That’s scary but it’s really not any scarier than Biden being in charge, if he is in charge. If he isn’t she won’t be either. It will still be the same radical communists running America, so it doesn’t make a difference.
How are they going to get the scope around his head?
Carefully….
With lots of lube.
Harris in charge? Now there’s a scary thought. Ranks right up there with Babbling Biden being in charge.
He’s going to be the butt of jokes now.
HE already is!
2 question?? What if she wants to keep being president? And doesn’t return power back to Joe ???
Next if she is president , can she vote to break the tie in the Senate ??
Comment on ABC comment section people were saying ,they only do Colonoscopies on people Joe age, if they know something is really bad. they must already know something is not right with joe
Biden has brain scan and mindless female moron in charge of the United States.