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Kevin O’Connor, who served as President Biden’s physician during his term, asked the House Oversight Committee to postpone scheduled testimony, citing disagreements on the scope of the questions the Republican-led committee can ask him.
O’Connor is scheduled to give a deposition on Wednesday as part of the committee’s probe into Biden’s mental acuity and his use of an autopen signing device. In a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the committee, David Schertler, a lawyer for O’Connor, asked to postpone the testimony to the week of July 28 or August 4.
“Dr. O’Connor has legal and ethical obligations that he must satisfy and for which violations carry serious consequences to him professionally and personally,” the letter reads. “We are unaware of any prior occasion on which a Congressional Committee has subpoenaed a physician to testify about the treatment of an individual patient. And the notion that a Congressional Committee would do so without any regard whatsoever for the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship is alarming.”
A spokesperson for the committee told NBC News that O’Connor was attempting to “stonewall” the investigation. The spokesperson said the doctor was welcome to assert that answers to individual questions were private between the doctor and patient during the deposition.
The committee has already interviewed Neera Tanden, the former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Former President Joe Biden has defended his administration’s use of an autopen after President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into what he calls one of the “most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history.” The controversy centers on whether key decisions made during Biden’s presidency were properly authorized or whether staffers were masking his alleged cognitive decline by utilizing a mechanical signature device to enact sweeping policies.
“I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement Wednesday, attempting to quash speculation over the legitimacy of actions taken under his name.
“This is nothing more than a distraction,” his statement insisted, dismissing the autopen investigation as political theater.
Critics argue that Biden’s forceful denial lacks substance and sidesteps legitimate concerns. “This isn’t about a signature — it’s about who was really in charge,” said one GOP aide familiar with the probe. “If Biden can’t point to specific decisions he made and explain them under oath, that’s a problem.”
Anthony Bernal, a senior adviser to First Lady Jill Biden, has declined to testify before the House Oversight Committee in its ongoing investigation into President Joe Biden.
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The Oversight Committee should not give the Doctor time to destroy any documents he may have so he can look innocent or to brain wash him by the Democratic ellits
““I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement Wednesday.”
PROVE IT! These are just empty words, and people like you lie all the time. The burden is on you, Joe Biden, to provide contemporary records that show you authorized these actions. You nor anyone else has even suggested those records exist. In fact, Neera Tanden, your director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, testified that SHE controlled the autopen, that no such records were kept, and that she received orders to use the autopen from the “inner circle”, NOT from you.
Subpoena him, if he refuses to cooperate hold him in contempt, if he still refuses to cooperate move for incarceration as Biden did on Navarro. This is a special case involving the mental ability of the President of the United States. There is a higher Constitutional obligation owed to the people of the United States that their elected official is competent. The President and the Vice President owe an obligation to the people of the United States to be able to function in their position. The 25th Amendment obligates the Cabinet members to act if and when the President is unable to fulfill the functions of the office, they need the knowledge and information held by the Presidents physician. The usual physician/patient confidentiality must be subservient to the obligations and needs under the Constitution and the fitness of the President to govern.