WASHINGTON — Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is urging the DC Board of Medicine to investigate Joe Biden’s personal physician Kevin O’Connor for being involved in a “coordinated” cover-up of the former president’s mental decline — and has recommended that the ex-White House doctor be disciplined, sanctioned or even lose his medical license as a result.
The powerful chairman of the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the District’s medical board Tuesday following a four-month probe that sought interviews with at least 14 Biden advisers and aides — including O’Connor, who shockingly took the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions.
“The Committee has found that President Biden’s aides coordinated a cover-up of the president’s diminishing faculties,” Comer informed board chair Dr. Andrea Anderson in the four-page missive.
“The Committee urges the Board of Medicine for the District of Columbia to investigate and assess whether Dr. Kevin O’Connor, during his time as physician to President Biden, was derelict in his duty as a physician by, including but not limited to, issuing misleading medical reports, misrepresenting treatments, falling to conform to standards of practice, or other acts in violation of District of Columbia law regulating licensed physicians,” added the Oversight Committee chairman.
“Based on the nature and extent of Dr. O’Connor’s actions, the Committee recommends that the Board of Medicine impose discipline, sanction, or revocation of his medical license.”
As head of the White House medical unit, O’Connor oversaw Biden’s annual physicals but never spoke with members of the press about the results, commenting only in a brief July 2024 interview with The Post that the president’s mental health was “excellent” — despite never performing cognitive tests.
That statement came four days after Biden was forced to end his re-election bid due to a dismal debate performance against Donald Trump on June 27, 2024.
Earlier that July, The Post exposed that the then-81-year-old Biden met with a Parkinson’s disease expert at the White House in January 2024.
The following month, special counsel Robert Hur declined to bring charges against Biden for “willfully” hoarding classified documents, in part because a jury would view him — in Hur’s words — as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Following the release of Hur’s report, Biden erupted during a White House press conference, insisting: “I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing” — despite mixing up the names of the leaders of Mexico and Egypt moments earlier.
Throughout his four years in the Oval Office, Biden suffered hard falls, verbal stumbles and embarrassing freeze-ups that stunned Americans — with large majorities revealing in public polls that they believed the president was too old to finish a second term.
Congressional Republicans have also accused the Biden White House of engaging in an abuse of the president’s pardon authority, following 11th-hour clemencies granted to first family members and political allies via an autopen signature.
O’Connor invoked his right against self-incrimination when asked by the Oversight Committee members: “Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?” and “Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?”
Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who served as former President Barack Obama’s doctor from 2009 to 2013, said at the time that answering those questions would not have implicated doctor-patient privilege.
Attorneys David Schertler and Mark MacDougall responded in a statement at the time of their client’s deposition that “the physician patient privilege and the physician’s ethical duty of confidentiality require that Dr. O’Connor refuse to testify about any aspect of his care and treatment of President Biden.”
Comer’s panel released a report on the alleged Biden health cover-up on Tuesday that accused O’Connor of having “recklessly never conducted a cognitive exam of the president” — though other White House aides like chief of staff Jeff Zients said the matter was discussed following the 2024 debate.
O’Connor maintained in a letter to the White House describing Biden’s final physical as president in February 2024 that Parkinson’s was ruled out through a “detailed neurologic exam” — but the results were never released.
“President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male,” he wrote at the time.
New York-based neurologist Tom Pitts told NBC News in a July 2024 interview that Biden’s “shuffling gait” and physical “rigidity” suggested otherwise.
“I could have diagnosed him from across the mall,” Pitts claimed, adding that “this guy is not a hard case.”
In his letter to the DC Board of Medicine, Comer wrote: “If Dr. O’Connor failed to meet his minimum standard of care to the president, intentionally misled the American public, or authored false health reports on President Biden, then the Committee believes Dr. O’Connor should be barred from the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia.”
“Dr. O’Connor’s lack of transparency demonstrated while serving as the active White House physician and not testifying before this Committee to answer relevant, pointed questions about President Biden’s ability to carry out the duties of the presidency is untenable for a licensed medical professional tasked to diagnose, heal, and protect the official in the highest elected office,” Comer also said.
“The Committee believes that Dr. O’Connor likely misled the American public and otherwise violated provisions of the District of Columbia code,” he added.
“If Dr. O’Connor was aware of any cognitive issues suffered by President Biden, then it is likely he knowingly concealed those issues.”
The board is empowered to take action against physicians who “willfully” make false reports or misrepresentations about patients, flout standards of conduct or who have “a deleterious
impact on the public’s impression of the profession.”
Anderson and O’Connor are currently both listed as faculty members at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences in DC.
Schertler and MacDougall added in their earlier statement that “the pending Department of Justice criminal investigation leaves Dr. O’Connor no choice but to invoke his constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to any questions posed by the Committee.”
“We want to emphasize that asserting the Fifth Amendment privilege does not imply that Dr. O’Connor has committed any crime,” they said.
Reps for Anderson, the DC Board of Medicine and O’Connor did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
