WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is urging the DC Board of Drugs to analyze Joe Biden’s private doctor Kevin O’Connor for being concerned in a “coordinated” cover-up of the previous president’s psychological decline — and has really helpful that the ex-White Home physician be disciplined, sanctioned and even lose his medical license in consequence.
The highly effective chairman of the Home Oversight Committee despatched a letter to the District’s medical board Tuesday following a four-month probe that sought interviews with a minimum of 14 Biden advisers and aides — together with O’Connor, who shockingly took the Fifth Modification to keep away from answering questions.
“The Committee has discovered that President Biden’s aides coordinated a cover-up of the president’s diminishing colleges,” Comer knowledgeable board chair Dr. Andrea Anderson within the four-page missive.
“The Committee urges the Board of Drugs for the District of Columbia to analyze and assess whether or not Dr. Kevin O’Connor, throughout his time as doctor to President Biden, was derelict in his responsibility as a doctor by, together with however not restricted to, issuing deceptive medical stories, misrepresenting remedies, falling to adapt to requirements of apply, or different acts in violation of District of Columbia regulation regulating licensed physicians,” added the Oversight Committee chairman.
“Based mostly on the character and extent of Dr. O’Connor’s actions, the Committee recommends that the Board of Drugs impose self-discipline, sanction, or revocation of his medical license.”
As head of the White Home medical unit, O’Connor oversaw Biden’s annual physicals however by no means spoke with members of the press concerning the outcomes, commenting solely in a short July 2024 interview with The Publish that the president’s psychological well being was “wonderful” — regardless of by no means performing cognitive exams.
That assertion got here 4 days after Biden was pressured to finish his re-election bid as a result of a dismal debate efficiency in opposition to Donald Trump on June 27, 2024.
Earlier that July, The Publish uncovered that the then-81-year-old Biden met with a Parkinson’s illness professional on the White Home in January 2024.
The next month, particular counsel Robert Hur declined to convey prices in opposition to Biden for “willfully” hoarding categorized paperwork, partly as a result of a jury would view him — in Hur’s phrases — as a “well-meaning, aged man with a poor reminiscence.”
Following the discharge of Hur’s report, Biden erupted throughout a White Home press convention, insisting: “I’m well-meaning, and I’m an aged man and I do know what the hell I’m doing” — regardless of mixing up the names of the leaders of Mexico and Egypt moments earlier.
All through his 4 years within the Oval Workplace, Biden suffered arduous falls, verbal stumbles and embarrassing freeze-ups that surprised People — with massive majorities revealing in public polls that they believed the president was too previous to complete a second time period.
Congressional Republicans have additionally accused the Biden White Home of participating in an abuse of the president’s pardon authority, following Eleventh-hour clemencies granted to first members of the family and political allies through an autopen signature.
O’Connor invoked his proper in opposition to self-incrimination when requested by the Oversight Committee members: “Had been you ever advised to lie concerning the president’s well being?” and “Did you ever consider President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?”
Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who served as former President Barack Obama’s physician from 2009 to 2013, mentioned on the time that answering these questions wouldn’t have implicated doctor-patient privilege.
Comer’s panel launched a report on the alleged Biden well being cover-up on Tuesday that accused O’Connor of getting “recklessly by no means performed a cognitive examination of the president” — although different White Home aides like chief of workers Jeff Zients mentioned the matter was mentioned following the 2024 debate.
O’Connor maintained in a letter to the White Home describing Biden’s last bodily as president in February 2024 that Parkinson’s was dominated out by a “detailed neurologic examination” — however the outcomes had been by no means launched.
“President Biden is a wholesome, lively, sturdy 81-year-old male,” he wrote on the time.
New York-based neurologist Tom Pitts advised NBC Information in a July 2024 interview that Biden’s “shuffling gait” and bodily “rigidity” prompt in any other case.
“I might have recognized him from throughout the mall,” Pitts claimed, including that “this man is just not a tough case.”
In his letter to the DC Board of Drugs, Comer wrote: “If Dr. O’Connor failed to fulfill his minimal commonplace of care to the president, deliberately misled the American public, or authored false well being stories on President Biden, then the Committee believes Dr. O’Connor ought to be barred from the apply of medication within the District of Columbia.”
“Dr. O’Connor’s lack of transparency demonstrated whereas serving because the lively White Home doctor and never testifying earlier than this Committee to reply related, pointed questions on President Biden’s capacity to hold out the duties of the presidency is untenable for a licensed medical skilled tasked to diagnose, heal, and shield the official within the highest elected workplace,” Comer additionally mentioned.
“The Committee believes that Dr. O’Connor seemingly misled the American public and in any other case violated provisions of the District of Columbia code,” he added.
“If Dr. O’Connor was conscious of any cognitive points suffered by President Biden, then it’s seemingly he knowingly hid these points.”
The board is empowered to take motion in opposition to physicians who “willfully” make false stories or misrepresentations about sufferers, flout requirements of conduct or who’ve “a deleterious
influence on the general public’s impression of the career.”
Anderson and O’Connor are at present each listed as college members at George Washington College’s Faculty of Drugs and Well being Sciences in DC.
Reps for Anderson, the DC Board of Drugs and O’Connor didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
