Joe Biden’s Former Doctor Pleads The Fifth While Being Questioned On Biden’s Health

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The much-anticipated congressional deposition of Biden’s former physician didn’t offer many answers.

On Wednesday morning, Biden’s former doctor, Kevin O’Connor, was ordered to testify before a congressional committee.

However, instead of answering questions on Biden’s cognitive decline, O’Connor refused to answer questions.

The New York Post reported on the questions O’Connor was asked:

Ex-White House Dr. Kevin O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment and ducked out of his high-profile congressional deposition Wednesday over the purported shielding of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Biden’s longtime personal physician exited the House Oversight Committee grilling just an hour after it started, with O’Connor’s attorney David Schertler telling reporters, “No comments to press.”

“Dr. O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment,” Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) later revealed. “I’m gonna read the first two questions that were asked.”

“‘Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?’ He pleaded the Fifth Amendment,” the chairman said. “‘Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?’”

“I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up,” he declared.

The Trump White House had declined Tuesday to invoke executive privilege over any of the former White House doctor’s testimony.

“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,” Comer had said before the deposition.

Here’s O’Connor walking out of the deposition:

Fox News provided context for the deposition:

The House Oversight Committee has been investigating whether Biden’s former top aides covered up evidence of his mental and physical decline while in office. Biden’s allies have denied such allegations.

But Comer suggested to reporters that O’Connor’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment could have been evidence to the contrary.

“Most people invoke the fifth when they have criminal liability. And so that’s what would appear on the surface here,” he said. “We’re going to continue to move forward. Obviously, I think his actions today speak loud and clear.”

But O’Connor’s lawyers wrote in their statement, “We want to emphasize that asserting the Fifth Amendment privilege does not imply that Dr. O’Connor has committed any crime. In fact, to the contrary, as our Supreme Court has emphasized: ‘One of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions is to protect innocent men who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.’”

Meanwhile, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who made a surprise appearance at the interview and was the only lawmaker there, save for Comer, defended O’Connor’s use of the Fifth Amendment.



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