Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena on Thursday for testimony from former President Biden’s White Home physician, Kevin O’Connor.
It is Comer’s newest transfer to increase his panel’s probes into Biden’s psychological acuity.
“Among other subjects, the Committee expressed its interest in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President,” Comer mentioned in a letter accompanying the subpoena. “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 dictates that O’Connor seem for testimony at a deposition on June 27, and comes after O’Connor had declined Comer’s request to voluntarily seem earlier than the committee.
O’Connor’s attorneys beforehand instructed the committee that the denial to look was due partly to a D.C. code regarding physicians disclosing affected person info to a courtroom with out consent, “ethical obligations pursuant to ‘Principal No. IV of the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA),’” and “physician-patient privilege,” in response to the letter from Comer.
“These arguments lack merit,” Comer wrote.
“Congress is not a court; this Section therefore in no way precludes you from appearing and testifying regarding your role as Physician to former President Biden,” the letter mentioned.
O’Connor’s lawyer David Schertler instructed The Hill in a press release: “We just received the correspondence and subpoena from the House Oversight Committee this afternoon. We will review it carefully and respond to Chairman Comer after we have had a chance to do so.”
