Key House Republican subpoenas Biden's White House doctor

[BumRushDaShow]

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."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/key-house-republican-subpoenas-bidens-white-house-doctor/

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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.

[Irish_Dem]

1. They are gd bastards.

[wolfie001]

2. Concerted effort to hide tRUMP's insanity by the repukes

In plain sight I might add

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Good Grief! Are they insane?! Where is the investigation into the president who is currently destroying the country?!

The one with 34 felonies who tried to overthrow the government and was already impeached twice?!!

[4TheArts]

4. HIPAA laws

Gonna have to break some more laws to get info from someone's doctor.

[livetohike]

7. Exactly. We can't hear about the Felon's supposed

ear injury, but they are going after Joe Biden's doctor?

[mdbl]

10. My thoughts exactly.

How are they going to justify breaking the law? Oh wait, they do it all the time now.

[Walleye]

5. Hey Comer Pyle, try finding wrongdoing by Biden and you will continue to be frustrated. Why not just cry?

[sop]

6. Next Comer will subpoena Joe's priest, threaten contempt charges if he doesn't break the Seal of Confession.

[Chasstev365]

8. Hey Kentuckians:

When they take away FEMA Aid, gut Medicaid, social security , and farm aid, be proud that this partisan asshole is doing nothing to improve your lives.

[Javaman]

9. and now comes the smoke screen cover for the orange ignoramus's messy "Bro"-ke up with empty husk. nt

[nowforever]

11. First

First challenge Trump to win a spelling match against any 9 year old.

[travelingthrulife]

12. The vindictive farmer strikes again

[stollen]

13. If the US is so broke,

why does the gop keep wasting taxpayer dollars on bullshit?

[niyad]

14. Then Ii hope Dr. O'Connor ignores the subpeona, just as orange's

people did.

[kacekwl]

15. Tell them to fuck off.

Patient client confidentiality. Then demand to see the fat slobs real exam records and make him climb on the scale.

[ashredux]

16. Kabuki theater..... that's all it is. The doctor cannot divulge any data that hasn't already been made public

Then of course, they’ll say the reason he will not answer. Certain questions is because Biden was mentally ill or something…. Silly shit.

[bronxiteforever]

17. Questions Why is Comer covering up the Epstein files?

He could subpoena these. Is “cover up Comer” hiding the truth about TSF from the public? The public has the right to know if the President was complicit in the death of Epstein.

[surfered]

18. No, they're not going near the current president's dementia.

[sop]

23. More Republican pre-emptive political projection: Accuse Biden of Trump's most glaring weakness.

All this political theater is in preparation for the day (coming soon) Trump totally loses his mind in front of television cameras in the Oval Office, tries to hit a foreign leader on the head with one of his gold knick-knacks, and has to be forcibly restrained and led away. On that day Republicans will falsely claim, "Well, your guy was also senile."

[Texin]

19. What the actual fuck? Somebody - anybody???!! - needs to remind these morons that Biden isn't POTUS now.

This is like something out of a Potemkin playbook. It's outrageous and ridiculous.

[Clouds Passing]

20. Comer is a waste of oxygen on this earth and frankly, so is the rest of the cult.

[aggiesal]

21. 6' 3'' 224 lbs. ...

This is Mierda47's official height & weight reported by the WH on April 11, less than 1 month ago.
Which doctor needs to be subpoenaed?

Here is the full WH medical report on Mierda47's health.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/memorandum-from-the-white-house-physician/

[Vinca]

22. So what's the plan? Do they want to lock Joe up for getting old? GOP fucking waste of oxygen.

[LoisB]

24. To hell with Comer and the rest of the idiots.

[Figarosmom]

25. Fu*k Comer

This Congress is so petty and ignorant of the law.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Maddow Blog-As Trump targets Biden with new investigation, a Republican endgame comes into focus

The overarching question is why Trump and his allies are intent on investigating his Democratic predecessor. They've already hinted at the answer.

The overarching question is why Trump and Republicans are so desperate to investigate Biden. As it happens, they've already largely answered the question:

They think they can invalidate at least parts of Biden’s record — specifically on pardons and executive actions. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-05T13:02:46.136Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-targets-biden-new-investigation-republican-endgame-comes-focus-rcna211131

Donald Trump’s unhealthy fixation on Joe Biden took a weird turn over the weekend, as the Republican incumbent amplified a social media message that accused the former Democratic president of being a robotic clone after secretly having been “executed in 2020.”

While this didn’t reflect well on the current president’s judgment, it did draw some guffaws from observers who marveled at the outlandish absurdities Trump has embraced as part of his hysterical campaign against his immediate predecessor. His latest anti-Biden move, however, was far less amusing. NBC News reported:

President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed a wide-ranging investigation into former President Joe Biden and officials in his administration, accusing his aides of using ‘autopen’ signatures to cover up his ‘cognitive decline’ and assert presidential power. ... The announcement Wednesday directs the White House counsel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether anyone ‘conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.’

The presidential directive to the Justice Department came roughly two weeks after Trump published an item to his social media platform in which he accused officials in the Biden White House of having committed “TREASON” as part of a secret plot to “destroy our Country.”

Biden apparently wasn’t pleased with the developments, issuing a statement that described the investigation as a “distraction” from the Republican agenda. “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” said the Delaware Democrat.....

But it’s against this backdrop that some of Biden’s most antagonistic foes have already made their motivations clear.

Just hours before Trump signed his new anti-Biden directives, for example, Comer was quite candid during an appearance on Fox Business. “If these executive orders were just done and authorized by staff, and Joe Biden’s signature was forged on the autopen as some would believe, then I think the Trump administration is gonna have a pretty good standing in court to get rid of a lot of these executive orders,” the Kentucky Republican told viewers.

Similarly, the Justice Department’s Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed pardon attorney, declared this week that he’s investigating Biden’s clemency actions, which followed the incumbent president’s recent statement that he’s voiding at least some of Biden’s pardons because, according to Trump’s conspiracy theory, Biden wasn’t competent enough to sign or even understand them.

With this in mind, the endgame is coming into focus: Trump and his party want to invalidate parts of Biden’s presidency, clearing the way for, among other things, new partisan investigations into those whom Biden protected, further empowering the incumbent in the process.

Will any of this work? What will the courts say? Will there be a public backlash against Republicans for focusing so much energy into investigating the past instead of preparing for the future? Will the Justice Department start indicting Democrats to satisfy the incumbent president’s political demands? Watch this space.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. This is a stunt-President Biden was not and is NOT impaired

Link to tweet

[tulipsandroses]

28. When is he going to get Eloon to testify about whether he was using drugs during the time he was demolishing programs?

that have now lead to the deaths of people abroad and will eventually lead to death here.