A prominent neurologist said it’s a “fact” that President Biden suffers from a degenerative brain disease and claimed he could “diagnose it from across the mall.”
Dr. Tom Pitts, a New York-based specialist, appeared on NBC to give his devastating opinion on the president’s neurological health.
“His motor symptoms are degenerating,” Pitts said. “He has Parkinsonism. That’s a fact. He has brain degeneration. Show me the MRI. Show me he doesn’t have it. Put your money where your mouth is. He definitely has it.”
Parkinsonism is a general term for degenerative brain diseases that include Parkinson’s disease.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has flatly denied that Biden is receiving treatment for Parkinson’s disease outside of his regular checkups.
A leading neurologist suggests Joe Biden’s ill health may be worse than feared
Jean-Pierre confirmed that Biden had been examined three times by a neurologist, but declined to say why a specialist visited the White House eight times in eight months, citing privacy and security concerns.
Speculation about the president’s neurological health has been rife after he appeared weak and frail and unable to finish his answers in his disastrous debate with Donald Trump.
Pitts, a New York-based, four-time board-certified specialist, was asked for his opinion on the president’s condition.
He made the astonishing claim that Biden “definitely” has Parkinson’s and sees people like him “20 times a day” working at his clinic, even claiming that from watching the president he could have “diagnosed him from across the mall.”
“It’s ironic because he has precisely these classic features of neurodegeneration: word-finding difficulties, and it’s not just, ‘Oh, I couldn’t find the right word,’ but a degeneration of the word retrieval area.”
Pitts has never personally examined Biden, but said what she saw in the debate is very common among people with the condition.
“You notice that when it turns, it’s like it’s turning at the end of the block; it’s not a fast turn,” Pitts said. NBC News.
“That’s one of the hallmarks of Parkinson’s: rigidity and bradykinesia, slow movements. And he has that characteristic, especially with the low voice that they said was a cold; hypophonia, a small, monotonous voice like this over time is a characteristic of Parkinson’s. I could have diagnosed him from across the mall.”
He also made clear that Biden’s historic struggles to overcome his stutter as a young man have absolutely nothing to do with what Pitts believes he is facing now.
“It’s not a problem with the palate or a speech discrepancy,” he said. “There is also stiffness and a monotonous voice.”
Pitts, who says he is a Democrat, says the condition is easy to diagnose even from afar.
“His motor symptoms are degenerating,” Pitts said bluntly. “He has parkinsonism. That’s a fact.”
Now, as White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denies that Biden has been screened for Parkinson’s disease outside of his regular checkups, Dr. Tom Pitts is speaking out.
He made the startling claim that Biden “definitely” has Parkinson’s and sees people like him “20 times a day” working at his clinic, even claiming that upon seeing the president, he could have “diagnosed him from across the mall.”
DailyMail.com reached out to the White House for comment. They responded with a screenshot of the neurology section of Biden’s February health summary following his annual checkup.
The White House is now doing damage control following reports that Joe Biden’s personal physician met with a prominent neurologist and Parkinson’s specialist at the White House.
Speculation has been rife about Biden’s poor health, which has been in doubt since his disastrous first debate with Donald Trump, and press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added fuel to the fire on Monday by saying the president has seen a neurologist three times.
Kevin Cannard is a movement disorders specialist at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland.
On Monday, O’Connor posted a letter with the permission of both Biden and Cannard and confirmed that Cannard had been the neurologist who evaluated the president in each of his three physicals since taking office.
But most of Cannard’s visits to the White House were in his role as a specialist attached to the White House Medical Unit, where he treated patients with a wide range of neurological problems for a dozen years, O’Connor said.
Biden is battling criticism from some Democrats who say he lacks the mental acuity to run as their candidate against Trump in the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The revelation comes amid growing scrutiny over the president’s mental state following his car-crashed debate with rival Donald Trump.
DailyMail.com reached out to the White House for comment. They responded with a screenshot of the neurology section of Biden’s February health summary following his annual checkup.
Biden, 81, has sought to dispel rumors that he is unfit to lead and still says he will run in November’s election but has declined to say whether he undergoes regular, official cognitive testing.
“Look, I have a cognitive test every day,” Biden said when asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday, referring to the tasks he faces daily in a rigorous job.
“I’m put to that test every day. In everything I do. You know, I’m not just campaigning, I’m running the world.”
Following the debate, the White House said Biden had a verbal interview with his doctor.
But questions about his competence remain, especially after his first interview since the disastrous June 27 debate did little to calm fears.
Several Democrats had called on Biden to drop out of the race after the debate and reiterated this call after yesterday’s ABC interview.