Stall tactics attempting to skate out of congressional testimony instead found former President Joe Biden’s White House physician losing a Hail Mary defense.
While corporate media feigned surprise at the state of Biden’s mental acuity throughout his administration, Congress was attempting to pin down the impact those complicit had with the exercise of executive authority. Amid the investigation that raised questions as to who was using the autopen, former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor’s attempt to avoid testimony on Biden’s mental health found President Donald Trump waiving his executive privilege.
“In light of unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation,” began the letter to O’Connor sent by Trump Deputy Counsel Gary Lawkowski and shared on X by Fox News politics reporter Elizabeth Elkind, “President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest, and therefor is not justified, with respect to particular subjects within the purview of the House Oversight Committee.”
NEW: The White House has waived executive privilege for Kevin O’Connor, former President Biden’s WH physician, in House Oversight Committee James Comer’s probe
Letter below obtained via source: pic.twitter.com/esOmX3wiEd
— Liz Elkind (@liz_elkind) July 8, 2025
“These subjects include your assessment of former President Biden’s fitness for the office of the President and your financial relationship with the Biden family,” specified the letter. “The extraordinary events in this matter constitute exceptional circumstances warranting an accommodation to Congress.”
“Evidence that aides to former President Biden concealed information regarding his fitness to exercise the powers of the President–and may have unconstitutionally exercised those powers themselves to aid in their concealment–implicates both Congress’s constitutional and legislative powers,” asserted Lawkowski.
Now expected to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday as scheduled, O’Connor initially refused a request to appear that led to Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) resorting to a subpoena that refuted the doctor’s arguments that he was legally obligated to maintain physician-patient confidentiality.
Still, the former White House doctor attempted once more to delay on Saturday when his attorney, David Schertler, submitted a request to reschedule the deposition to late July or early August, lamenting that any violations of “legal and ethical obligations” would “carry serious consequences to him professionally and personally.”
“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,” wrote the attorney in part.
Joe Biden’s doctor stalls hearing, cries doctor-patient confidentiality https://t.co/F3zJ6dYsHL
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 8, 2025
A spokesperson for the Oversight Committee reacted in a statement that read, “To the extent that Dr. O’Connor wishes to assert privilege in response to specific questions, the Oversight Committee will follow that process at the deposition. Dr. O’Connor is not permitted to disregard a congressional deposition subpoena because he believes he may be asked questions that, in his view, will implicate privileged information.”
The letter to O’Connor from Lawkowski also noted that the practice of waiving executive privilege was “established under the Biden administration,” a fact which found both Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon and his former trade adviser Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress resulting in their months-long incarcerations despite attempts at appeal amid the Jan. 6 Committee’s kangaroo court.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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