President Joe Biden on Friday will temporarily transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he is under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
The nation’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president will break yet another barrier when she temporarily steps into the acting role. Harris will work from her office in the West Wing while Biden is under anesthesia, Psaki said in a statement.
Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, arrived Friday morning at Walter Reed Medical Center to undergo his first routine annual physical since taking office.
It’s routine for a vice president to assume presidential powers while the president undergoes a medical procedure that requires anesthesia. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney did so on multiple occasions when then-President George W. Bush underwent routine colonoscopies.
Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution says the President can send a letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate declaring declaring they are “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.”
Earlier this year, former President Donald Trump’s ex-press secretary Stephanie Grisham heavily implied that Biden’s predecessor underwent a colonoscopy in a secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019, but kept it quiet to avoid transferring presidential power to then-Vice President Mike Pence.
In her book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” Grisham does not use the term colonoscopy but heavily implies that’s what the trip was for. She says Trump’s hospital visit, which stirred weeks-long speculation about his health was a “very common procedure,” during which “a patient is put under.” She also writes that Bush had a similar procedure while in office. Grisham writes Trump did not want then-Vice President Mike Pence to be in power while he was sedated, which was part of the reason he kept his visit private. He also “did not want to be the butt of a joke” on late-night television, writes Grisham.
Biden is the oldest first-term president in US history, and the last comprehensive update on Biden’s medical history came nearly two years ago when his presidential campaign released a three-page summary of his medical history in December 2019.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s primary care doctor since 2009, described Biden as “a healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male,” at the time.
The 2019 summary showed Biden was being treated for non-valvular atrial fibrillation, or AFib — an irregular heartbeat that O’Connor said Biden experiences no symptoms of. He was taking Crestor to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels, as well as Eliquis to prevent blood clots, Nexium for acid reflux, and Allegra and a nasal spray for seasonal allergies.
The most significant medical event in Biden’s history, O’Connor wrote, was when Biden suffered a brain aneurysm in 1988. He was serving in the Senate at the time. During surgery, doctors found a second aneurysm that had not bled, which they also treated.
While in the hospital after that surgery, Biden suffered deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism. Doctors at the time inserted an “inferior vena cava filter,” which would prevent future blood clots from reaching the heart and lungs and treated him with an oral anti-coagulant for several months.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/politics/kamala-harris-presidential-power/index.html
So, do you want him to come to or not? Which do you prefer?
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Yeah I have a real sneaking suspicion about this…..and it’s more than my typical “Hmmmmmm…..”
oh, so they’re going to tweek his brain implant
Ha!! And word has it Kamala is standing BEHIND him. No BUTTS about it. Doesn’t want her career to go into the CAN. Wouldn’t want competition to REAR it’s ugly head. Maybe being vice president isn’t all it’s CRACKed up to be. Will she fight for her position, or just turn the other CHEEK and remain content with taking a BACK SEAT?
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Breaking news! They found his head!
Slam, dunk!!
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You win the comment section! Ha!
ROTFLMAO….
What a shitty thing to say.
Yeah, that really stinks.
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Breaking news! Biden just announced, “My butt’s been wiped by Kamala!” while prepping for surgery.
FYI he lost his head again. D’oh!
LOL!
I wonder how they distinguished it from a polyp?
“The nation’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president“
WTF is that all supposed to mean? Am I supposed to be impressed or something? Why don’t you add first Transexual, first Mexican and first FUGLY for good measures while you’re at it.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about her race, gender, ethnicity or the pigment of her skin. She’s got as much intelligence as Paris Hilton. She probably thinks Walmart sells walls, for cryin out loud.
Communist News Network must have been drooling at the chance to write this pathetic and unnecessary paragraph.
Hope they can save him. so he can give candy to the children!. He is not really alive…. this is a fckg joke. Harris is the next obvious choice to destroy AMERICA further!!! Stay Tuned!!!
Who goes under for a colonoscopy?
kamala sucks and biden sniffs.
Down with the nwo and their lack of tools.