Ronny Jackson claims Biden Dr. Kevin O'Connor engaged in offensive, inappropriate behavior: Report

Former White House physician and Texas GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson on Monday claimed he thought about firing former President Joe Biden's physician Kevin O'Connor multiple times while working at the White House Medical Unit because of inappropriate behavior. 

Jackson, who previously served as the director of the medical unit, was responsible for signing O’Connor’s evaluations and fitness reports before he became White House physician. Jackson served as Physician to the President under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

The Texas Republican told The Daily Caller that O'Connor acted inappropriately multiple times, by making offensive jokes about women and "pranking" people by immaturely sticking their phones down his pants.

“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," Jackson said. "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. 

"Most people were astonished—they were just kind of like, what’s going on here?' It was very immature," he continued. "He would say things that were just kind of offensive to some of the women in the office. 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 did not provide any specific dates or places where the behavior occurred or the names of the women who experienced the jokes. O'Connor has also not commented on the allegation so far.

The Republican lawmaker said that he did not fire O'Connor because he knew he would get a phone call from Obama if he tried.

“I didn’t get rid of him because I knew it would be an exercise in futility,” Jackson said. “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.'”

The comments come after the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed O'Connor last month, to testify about Biden's mental decline in the last year of his presidency.

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