Dr. Kevin O’Connor, President Biden’s former White House physician, faces accusations of sexually assaulting multiple young staffers, as alleged by former White House physician and Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson. The claims, made during a Monday interview with the Daily Caller, have cast a shadow over O’Connor’s tenure at the White House.

Jackson, who previously served as Director of the White House Medical Unit (WHMU), revealed he was responsible for signing O’Connor’s evaluations and fitness reports. He stated he considered dismissing O’Connor for various reasons before specifically accusing him of inappropriate sexual misconduct, raising serious concerns about the conduct within the White House medical team.

Dailycaller.com reports: “One was because of some very inappropriate behavior on his part,” Jackson stated.

Jackson said O’Connor would take other people’s phones and put them down his pants near his groin as a prank, as well as make sexually inappropriate comments that upset female coworkers. Jackson did not provide specific places or dates where the conduct allegedly occurred. He also did not identify the women who were allegedly subjected to the behavior.

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

He added, “It was something we had to deal with.”

“Sexually inappropriate comments and little things, like he used to think it was very funny,” Jackson explained. “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. And 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. And most people were just astonished — they were just kind of like, what’s going on here?”

“It was very immature, but things like that and he would say things that were just kind of offensive to some of the women in the office,” Jackson continued. “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.”

“And of course the Bidens loved it,” Jackson said. “Joe Biden probably is cut from the same cloth in that regard.”

He added that he knew there were people in Biden’s office who thought those kinds of things were “hilarious.”

“Being an active-duty military officer, like I was — and mind you, like he was, he was an Army colonel — those are things that the military would have deemed highly inappropriate.”

Jackson said he never received a direct order from Obama not to fire O’Connor, but he assumed it wouldn’t be allowed.

“No, that’s what I would have assumed would have happened,” Jackson responded. “You know, it was pretty obvious to me and everybody else in the White House that if I had gotten rid of him and removed him, that I would have been in short order told to undo that and to put him back into that role because his patient, Joe Biden, would have insisted on it. And the vice president probably wouldn’t have called me.”

“My assumption is he would have called the president or called somebody, like the chief of staff or somebody on President Obama’s staff, senior staff, and passed word to them that he would have wanted that reversed.”

Jackson was called back to the United States from Iraq to join the WHMU during President George W. Bush’s administration while on active-duty service in the United States Navy.

He later served as director of the unit and as physician to the president from 2013 to 2018 under both President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump—stepping down as director in December 2014 but continuing as physician.

The Daily Caller reached out to O’Connor and his attorneys to offer them opportunity to comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.