Biden’s doctor arrives for closed-door interview in House health probe
Biden White House Physician Kevin O’Connor arrived for a closed-door deposition Wednesday.
The House Oversight Committee wants answers from Biden’s former doctor. He did not answer a battery of questions from Fox News about doctor-patient confidentiality or the former president’s mental state as he walked into the meeting.
The White House has waived executive privilege, making it harder for him to refuse to testify on the grounds that his conversations with the president were protected.
WHITE HOUSE WAIVES EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGES FOR BIDEN DOCTOR KEVIN O’CONNOR IN COVER-UP PROBE
Still, O’Connor’s lawyers warn that testifying could violate doctor-patient confidentiality and risk his medical license. GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, a physician, said both sides have valid concerns, but the committee called it a stall tactic and warned that no-showing could lead to contempt charges.
Republicans want to know what tests were done—and whether Biden’s inner circle pressured O’Connor to say he was fit for office.
Jill Biden’s so-called “work husband,” Anthony Bernthal, has been subpoenaed after backing out, with top insiders—Ron Klain, Steve Ricchetti, and Ashley Williams—next in line.
So far, the committee has held just one interview — with former Domestic Policy Director Neera Tanden, who said she was authorized to use the autopen but didn’t know who in the president’s inner circle gave the final green light.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Wednesday, “We have a lot of questions. i think everybody in America has questions about, learning about the recent cancer diagnosis…did he have cancer while he was president? With the Tapper book and what we believe is going to be in the Jean-Pierre book, that would suggest that people were covering up the president’s mental decline. But yet Dr. O’Connor’s reports were glowing with, you know, how healthy the president was.”
“I think the president, the state of the president’s health is the transparency that we all expect. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the world. The American people have a right to know the health condition of the president, both physical and mental,” he said. “There’s more and more evidence that comes out every day that would suggest that the president was in a pretty severe mental decline. So we’re going to ask about that and see what the doctor has to say.”
Comer said he did not “believe” O’Connor could “hide behind” doctor-patient confidentiality, citing Biden’s position as president.
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