Thursday, July 10, 2025

Biden's Former Doctor Pleads the 5th in Front of House Republicans

Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former President Joe Biden's White House physician, declined to answer questions on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee ...

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Kevin O'Connor cited doctor-patient confidentiality and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in deciding not to answer questions from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Jul 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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... House Republicans, led by Representative James Comer, subpoenaed O'Connor in June, ordering him to testify "as part of the investigation into the cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline."

Biden dropped his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate performance last year raised concerns about his age and mental fitness. After leaving office, he has come under renewed scrutiny since revealing he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer and the publication of books alleging a cover-up of Biden's decline while he was in office.

He has strongly rejected the notion that he has been mentally unfit at any point during his presidency, calling the allegations "ridiculous and false."

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On Wednesday O'Connor's attorneys, David Schertler and Mark MacDougall, released a statement on behalf of their client stating, "the totality of the circumstances surrounding this Committee's investigation leave Dr. O'Connor no choice but to decline to answer questions."

The statement continued, "the physician patient privilege and the physician's ethical duty of confidentiality require that Dr. O'Connor refuse to testify about any aspect of his care and treatment of President Biden.

O'Connor previously served as Biden's family physician before taking on the role of White House doctor. His appearance before the committee followed weeks of negotiation. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-09 12:13 PM

First, Comer ... seriously?

Second, breaking patient-doctor confidentiality sets up a potential malpractice situation.

Third, I'm more interested in the shuffling wreck currently occupying the Oval Office.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 12:58 PM

@#2 ... First, Comer ... seriously? ...

Yeah, I noticed that also.

The only way an investigation could be made less serious may be if Rep Jordan were running it.



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-09 01:01 PM

You can't make me wear a mask because of HIPAA - MAGATS
Biden's doctor must ignore HIPAA and share all the details about his patient's health - Also MAGATS

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-09 01:12 PM

Easy enough to offer him immunity and order him to testify or face contempt...

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:14 PM

Easy enough to offer him immunity and order him to testify or face contempt...
#5 | Posted by snoofy

Option 1 - push a conspiracy despite lacking supporting evidence.
Option 2 - attempt to force a doctor to break confidentiality.

I think we all know that option 1 has been their plan from the start.

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-09 01:29 PM

Good point. I suspect Doctor Patient confidentiality can withstand just about any legal attack, but I'm not sure if Republicans thought of that.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:31 PM

This is the point of this charade. It's all about innuendo and insinuation.

The doctor was intentionally put into an unprecedented and untenable position to force an appearance of him "hiding" something.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-09 01:37 PM

" Easy enough to offer him immunity and order him to testify or face contempt.."

During the unraveling of the wretched Iran-Contra Affair, Oliver North got limited immunity from an arrangement of that sort and, as a result, walked.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 01:39 PM

Oliver North

There's a meme floating around, which I will now butcher into text format.

Left panel is a youngish man from the Iran-Contra days, "This man sold bombs to Iran."

Right panel is an older man at a Fox News desk, "This man says we should bomb Iran."

Bottom Text. "It's the same man. Lt. Col Oliver North sold weapons to Iran in the 80s in the Iran-Contta Scandal and is now a military analyst working for Fox News."

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 01:48 PM

#10
Thanks for pointing that out.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 01:50 PM

LOL, you ------- liberals have an allergic reaction to the truth and finally waking up to the fact that the Democrat lied right to your stupid smug faces over and over again.

We told you right here on this very website that the progression of the disease was not possible the way Biden's press release stated. You chose to side with your lying overlords.

Well, here we are again - making the lying Dr. testify and - IN A SURPRISE TO NO ONE - he pleads the 5th.

As the great Mark Twain stated and summing up the Democrat voters: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - well, at least the 19% of the country that still identifies as Democrats.

#12 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-09 07:47 PM

12 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

I'd assert the 5th too when dealing with such MAGA barbarians.

They aren't looking for truth; they're looking for scalps.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 07:54 PM

12 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

I'd assert the 5th too when dealing with such MAGA barbarians.

They aren't looking for truth; they're looking for scalps.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 07:54 PM

| POSTED BY SCOTTS

Now for some very appropriate whataboutism----

Donald Trump is a mentally-ll man in obvious cognitive and physical decline.

Maybe we'll get to call his doctors to testify some day soon.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-09 07:56 PM

#15: Donald Trump is a mentally-ill man in obvious cognitive and physical decline.
Maybe we'll get to call his doctors to testify some day soon.

Spot on.

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-09 08:00 PM

"#13 | Posted by Zed"

Lying has consequences - just not with the Democrat voters that blindly accept it. In your case, you are not even a Democrat voter given your Canadian nationality. It takes a special kind of stupid for someone, that is not even American voter, to give this kind of blind, cult-like loyalty as you do.

#17 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-09 08:01 PM

"#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS"

Spot on in what way? You ------- liberals are clearly uninterested in the fact that Biden's Dr lied right to your stupid smug faces. You would start caring if it is Trump though? Why is that?

#18 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-09 08:02 PM

" . In your case, you are not even a Democrat voter given your Canadian nationality" - Scotts

You are confusing Zed with Redial. Zed is a Texan. Redial is a Canuck.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-09 10:59 PM

Zed is a Texan. Redial is a Canuck.

And ScottS is an idiot sockpuppet. Ira rides again!

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-09 11:08 PM

Bride of Ira!

#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-09 11:08 PM

The Ira Supremacy!

#22 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-09 11:10 PM

Ira Begins!

#23 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-09 11:10 PM

Lying has consequences - just not with the Democrat voters that blindly accept it.

#17 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

This stupid pile of s^*+ has zero self awareness.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-10 01:21 PM

Lying has consequences -

#17 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

Of course it does.

Lying has made Donald Trump rich and powerful.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-10 04:27 PM

"Lying has consequences -
#17 | POSTED BY SCOTTS"

How's the Epstein client list coming along Scooter?

#26 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-07-10 07:14 PM

of course he did.

the other cop out is "I don't recollect"

--all a normal person needs to know.

start your made up ---- now !!

#27 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-10 09:05 PM

This stupid pile of s^*+ has zero self awareness.

#24 | Posted by jpw

F*@(& you and your SeLFaWaRness

bwaaaa

#28 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-10 09:07 PM

There's not actually MAGAts here disparaging pleading the 5th, is there? King Dotard is the champion, it's his main weapon in court. I would say total lack of self-awareness, but we all know you're just liars and hypocrites.

#29 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-07-11 08:30 AM

All I see with this is what we should have been discussing with Reagan... and tried too... back in the 80's... but nooooooooooooooooooooo.

GFY repubicl0wns... we plan to name an airport after our sock puppet just like you did with yours... Biden didn't leave us with a cocaine pipeline... or voodoo economic plans... like Reagan did.

Your current sock puppet is going to leave office in disgrace... AGAIN.

He's reaching his 12-year expiration date... as bad ideas tend to do.

In the meantime... enjoy voodoo economics deux

Trumpanzee lost to Biden and won against women... the US doesn't elect women... his election is a theatrical gimmee... the clown brigade is running with it.

Remember how Bushturd 1 had to pass the largest tax increase in US history to cover Reagan's raise the debt ceiling 19 times economy?... Here we go again! One trick dumb@$$ery.

#30 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-07-11 08:54 AM

not exactly sure why this is a scandal. This doctor chose obey federal medical privacy laws.

#31 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-07-12 05:53 AM

Why are we talking about a past president when we should be focusing on the current president.

#32 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-07-12 10:19 AM

"not exactly sure why this is a scandal."

Not a "scandal". Just more republican kabuki theater to support previous Trumpy and maga lies.

When reporters asked Mike Johnson to respond to President Donald Trump's pardons for more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the House speaker had a ready answer.

"We're not looking backwards. We're looking forward," he said Wednesday morning.

Barely three hours later, Johnson announced the creation of a new select subcommittee to continue the GOP's probe into January 6, because "there is more work to be done." He also said Republicans would investigate pardons handed out by President Joe Biden on his way out the door.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-12 10:21 AM

Second, breaking patient-doctor confidentiality sets up a potential malpractice situation.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 12:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

That's not what you clowns were saying about the COVID vaccine.

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-12 04:23 PM

That's not what you clowns were saying about the COVID vaccine.
#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You have no idea what you're talking about.
Vaccines are optional.

Just like having a job is optional.
And you know all about that.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-12 04:53 PM

Vaccines are optional.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-12 04:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

STFU raetard. If it were up to Biden we would have all lost our jobs.

"Just like having a job is optional.
And you know all about that"

Sure do. It comes with the responsibility of choosing a lucrative line of work, making solid investments and owning two homes - one which I recently sold.

Working the graveyard at the bath house and living in your mom's garage will not get you there.

#36 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-12 05:19 PM

STFU raetard. If it were up to Biden we would have all lost our jobs.

So rabid now that you pwn yourself?

It WAS up to Biden and Official reports indicate that as of July 2024, the U.S. economy added nearly 16 million jobs under the Biden-Harris administration.

Trumpy is much more interested in cutting jobs than producing them.

Now you go ahead and blame what you called a democrats HOAX for Trumpy's poor job creation.

#37 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-12 05:29 PM

"If it were up to Biden we would have all lost our jobs."

It wasn't up to Biden?
Who was it up to?

Since you brought it up:
It's up to Trump to fire government workers, right?
You would be okay if Trump fired everyone in government who got vaccinated, right?

#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-12 06:32 PM

"It comes with the responsibility of choosing a lucrative line of work"

Like that's what trust fund kids are out there doing...

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-12 06:34 PM

I own two houses and youre gay.

-deep thoughts by lefthandturd.

#40 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-07-12 07:35 PM

I own two houses and you're gay.

#40 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-07-12 07:35 PM

And?

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-13 12:57 AM

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