The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Biden’s personal doctor, Kevin O’Connor, to appear on June 27 and give a deposition and transcribed statement about the former president’s mental decline.
House Oversight chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) had requested O’Connor and four other top White House aides to appear voluntarily or be compelled to testify under oath.
“We expect all witnesses to fully comply with the Committee’s investigation. The Committee will issue subpoenas if necessary,” Comer told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
O’Connor’s lawyers had reportedly reached out to the committee, but no definitive date was set. Rep. Comer disclosed that the doctor refused to comply with the voluntary request. His lawyers had reportedly said he could not honor it due to “physician-patient privilege,” which the House Oversight Chair said “lacks merit.”
“No autopen was used in the signing of this subpoena,” Comer mocked the former president.
“I expect Dr. Kevin O’Connor, President Joe Biden’s physician, to appear for a deposition on June 27, 2025, as part of @GOPoversight’s investigation into the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline & unauthorized use of the autopen.”
Biden’s personal doctor is viewed as a key player in the multi-year attempt to cover up signs of apparent cognitive and physical decline. He will make a statement on whether his financial entanglements with the Biden family influenced him to downplay his deteriorating health.
Biden’s brother James had reportedly received $600,000 from Americore, of which $200,000 allegedly went to the former president. O’Connor had allegedly counseled James when he worked at Americore.
The committee worried that the positive assessments were related to O’Connor’s financial relationships with the former first family. The White House doctor had described Biden as “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
“Given your connections with the Biden family, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people,” the subpoena stated.
Meanwhile, President Trump also ordered an investigation into Biden’s autopen pardons, an action the former president termed a “distraction.”
While Biden’s cancer diagnosis was only recently revealed, its advanced progression forced many to believe it was previously known but hidden from Americans. Biden’s mental decline is also the subject of several books detailing Biden’s decline from the perspective of White House insiders.
CNN media hack Jake Tapper co-authored the book “Original Sin” which detailed how White House aides planned to perform presidential duties while occasionally presenting Biden to the public as proof of life.
Details as to when other persons of interest will appear and if they are complying with the voluntary request remain unclear. However, Comer has not ruled out subpoenaing anyone, including former First Lady Jill Biden, former first son Hunter, and even Biden himself.
“If the trail leads us to the next step, which many believe would be perhaps Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, then we will go there,” Comer said.
“We’re going to see who was giving the directive to sign these,” he said. “If everyone says it was Joe Biden, then I’m certainly open to bring him in.”
