WASHINGTON — Ex-White Home Dr. Kevin O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Modification and ducked out of his high-profile congressional deposition Wednesday over the purported shielding of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
Biden’s longtime private doctor exited the Home Oversight Committee grilling simply an hour after it began, with O’Connor’s lawyer 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 mentioned. “‘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 Home had declined Tuesday to invoke government privilege over any of the previous White Home physician’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 mentioned earlier than the deposition.
“We can’t have the physician’s office not being truthful about the health condition of the president,” he added, noting that this was half of a bigger investigation into who within the Biden White Home was approved to make use of an autopen that signed government actions and pardons.
Schertler, a high felony protection lawyer, additionally represented former Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments Director Dr. Anthony Fauci throughout his testimonies earlier than the Oversight’s Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic final yr.
