Meet the White House doctor who greets Joe Biden every morning — and who Trump wants to investigate

America’s 46th president marked the decision with a simple, solemn letter – an announcement to the world that he would no longer seek a White House second term. Joe Biden’s Sunday missive may have sent Democrats into practical and hypothetical planning overdrive, but it followed fervent, growing concern from all sides about the 81-year-old’s health.

Donald Trump and his new running mate, for example, have even called for investigations into the medical team who’ve been tending to President Biden to date. So just where, and who, is the Commander-in-Chief’s doctor?

The answer is Kevin O’Connor, a jovial 58-year-old military physician who’s been treating the Biden family for years. And unlike seeing a patient for a yearly physical, O’Connor spends nearly every day in very close proximity to Biden, staying in the hotel room next to him when they travel and greeting him each morning. His office is right across from the elevator from which Biden emerges every day, and the President must pass it “every time he goes to and from the Oval,” the doctor told military medical podcast WarDocs earlier this year.

“That’s by design for a number of reasons; Number One is, we are literally assessing every day,” said O’Connor, the married father of three daughters. “Think about it: You have a conversation, you’re assessing their breathing, their mentation, their dentition, their hearing assessment, their color, and so part of it is just for that exposure.”

Aside from diagnosing Biden with Covid last week, however, O’Connor has been quiet in recent months about the President’s cognitive condition. And he found himself facing more and more demands for answers after Biden’s repeated disastrous appearances on the 2024 campaign trail –