Former White House physician to appear before House committee investigating Biden's mental fitness

Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the erstwhile White House doc who treated erstwhile President Joe Biden, has agreed to look for a transcribed interrogation earlier the House Oversight Committee connected July 9, a root acquainted with the committee’s docket confirms to NBC News.

O’Connor agreed to look aft being the people of a subpoena, led by the committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who is spearheading an probe into Biden’s alleged cognitive diminution portion successful office. Comer is specifically focused connected Biden usage of an autopen for authoritative authorities business.

In summation to O’Connor, the Oversight Committee has scheduled transcribed interviews with erstwhile Biden White House aides Neera Tanden, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams and Annie Tomasini. All of those aides scheduled interviews without being subpoenaed.

O’Connor could beryllium a cardinal witnesser successful the committee’s effort to effort to beryllium their allegations that Biden’s diminished capableness led to cardinal decisions being made by idiosyncratic different than the president. The committee has yet to connection up immoderate circumstantial grounds to backmost up that argument.

As for the usage of the autopen, the Department of Justice’s bureau of ineligible counsel issued a memo connected the taxable successful 2005 that concluded that the signifier was legal. A national appeals court ruled arsenic recently arsenic 2024 that the “the lack of a penning does not equate to impervious that a commutation did not occur,” erstwhile it relates to the usage of a statesmanlike autopen.

Biden himself has been insistent that helium was the 1 making the decisions portion successful bureau and his erstwhile aides person consistently rejected immoderate assertion that anyone different than the president was successful charge.

“Any accusation that President Biden was not making decisions is false. President Biden made the decisions astir the pardons and the enforcement orders helium issued, and the authorities helium signed into law,” a erstwhile official, who was not authorized to talk connected Biden’s behalf, told NBC News.

The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee has besides signaled involvement successful investigating Biden’s intelligence acuity. The sheet held its archetypal nationalist proceeding connected the taxable past week, but the witnesser database did not see anyone with first-hand cognition of Biden’s intelligence fittingness oregon decision-making portion successful office.