The White House scrambled on Monday to answer a barrage of questions about eight visits a Parkinson’s Disease expert quietly made over the past year, even refusing to name the doctor despite him being listed in publicly available visitor logs.
“I am just not going to do that,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a tense press conference, repeatedly citing “security” and “privacy” reasons. “It is inappropriate. It is not acceptable.”
The questions came on the heels of a New York Post report published Saturday that found Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist at Walter Reed Medical Center, visited President Joe Biden’s residence at the White House in January.
