Key House Republican subpoenas Biden's White House doctor [View all]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: June 5, 2025 / 8:07 PM EDT


The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee is demanding that former President Joe Biden's White House physician testify before the panel — ramping up a congressional investigation into Biden's age and health. Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, sent a letter to Dr. Kevin O'Connor on Thursday subpoenaing him to testify at a June 27 deposition. He said the committee wants details about "your assessment of and relationship with former President Biden."

House Oversight had requested last month that O'Conner appear for a transcribed interview, Comer wrote, but the doctor's attorneys declined, citing local laws and medical ethics rules that generally discourage physicians from disclosing confidential information about their patients. Comer wrote that those "arguments lack merit."

The letter to O'Conner said the committee "sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden's fitness to serve from the American people." It cited a memo penned by O'Conner last year after Biden's physical, describing the then-president as a "healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency."

O'Connor's lawyers, David Schertler and Mark MacDougall, said in a statement to CBS News: "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."

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Comer is as waste of oxygen. He couldn't get anything going with his past nonsensical distraction campaigns, so he's trying for 3 strikes and out. He should be oversighting all that illegal firing and impoundments that his dear leader had ordered.