WASHINGTON — Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issued a subpoena Thursday to pressure Joe Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, to look for questions concerning the alleged cover-up of the ex-president’s psychological decline — and plans to ask Karine Jean-Pierre to look after she divulged plans for a tell-all ebook concerning the “broken” administration she served as press secretary.
Dr. O’Connor refused to sit down for a transcribed interview, citing patient-doctor confidentiality, however will now be referred to as in for a grilling on June 27, based on the subpoena.
“In lieu of full compliance, your counsel suggest a set of written interrogatories that would afford them as well as an unnamed medical ethics expert the ability to ‘closely evaluate’ your answers,” Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to O’Connor. “This is not acceptable and will not satisfy the Committee’s legitimate oversight and legislative needs. Considering these facts, the attached subpoena is now necessary.”
A supply aware of the Home investigation advised The Put up that the panel expects Jean-Pierre to be invited to provide testimony as properly — after she stated Wednesday that she had left the Democratic Social gathering and plans to launch “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” on Oct. 21.
O’Connor is the primary particular person to be subpoenaed by Comer as a part of his investigation of Biden’s psychological decline and the alleged concealment of his slipping well being.
Comer initially sought the physician’s testimony about “the circumstances surrounding your assessment in February 2024 that former President Biden was ‘a healthy, active, robust 81- year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.’”
The chairman famous in his newest communication that his committee additionally was eager about “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.”
“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,” he wrote.
The oversight panel is in talks with attorneys for 4 different Biden aides about their potential testimony, together with first girl Jill Biden’s former chief of workers Anthony Bernal and the president’s former West Wing aides Annie Tomasini, Neera Tanden and Ashley Williams.
On Wednesday, Comer additionally requested appearances by former White Home chief of workers Ron Klain, former de facto West Wing communications chief Anita Dunn and longtime Biden advisers Bruce Reed, Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti.
Biden has dismissed claims that he was mentally fading whereas in workplace and final week instructed he was match sufficient to beat up journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the co-authors of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
“You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” Biden bristled Might 30 following remarks in his house state of Delaware — his first public look for the reason that Might 18 announcement he had been recognized with prostate most cancers that had unfold to his bones.
