Former Biden Doctor Asks To Delay Testimony To House Committee Investigating Mental Fitness

Former White House expert Kevin O'Connor, who served arsenic expert to erstwhile President Joe Biden, requested a hold to his upcoming grounds earlier nan House Oversight Committee this week.

O'Connor was scheduled to attest connected Wednesday, but is now successful a disagreement pinch nan committee complete nan scope of nan questions he will beryllium expected to reply during his testimony. The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is interviewing nan expert arsenic portion of its investigation into Biden's intelligence fittingness and his administration's usage of an autopen.

A lawyer for O'Connor requested nan grounds beryllium delayed to July 28 aliases August 4 successful a missive to Comer.

"Dr. O’Connor has ineligible and ethical obligations that he must fulfill and for which violations transportation superior consequences to him professionally and personally," nan missive says.

BIDEN INSISTS 'I MADE THE DECISIONS' AS REPUBLICANS INVESTIGATE WHITE HOUSE AUTOPEN USE

The House Oversight Committee is investigating erstwhile President Joe Biden's diminution successful intelligence fittingness during his word successful office. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"We are unaware of immoderate anterior juncture connected which a Congressional Committee has subpoenaed a expert to attest astir nan curen of an individual patient.  And nan conception that a Congressional Committee would do truthful without immoderate respect whatsoever for nan confidentiality of nan physician-patient narration is alarming."

A spokesperson for nan Oversight Committee replied successful a connection to NBC News that O'Connor and his ineligible squad were simply trying to "stonewall" nan process.

The committee said O'Connor is invited to entity to individual questions during his testimony. But O'Connor is not allowed, successful nan committee's view, to hold aliases diminution a legislature lawsuit owed to concerns complete questions astir perchance privileged information.

WHO IS NEERA TANDEN? THE CONTROVERSIAL DEM OPERATIVE WHO TESTIFIED ON BIDEN'S MENTAL ACUITY

Then-President Joe Biden speaks pinch then-White House Physician Kevin O'Connor arsenic he arrives backmost astatine nan White House successful Washington, DC, connected August 28, 2023. ((Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

The statement complete O'Connor's grounds comes weeks aft a erstwhile apical adjutant to Biden, Neera Tanden, told nan Oversight Committee that she was authorized to nonstop autopen signatures but was unaware of who successful nan president's soul circle was giving her last clearance.

During Tanden's question and reply earlier Congress past month, which lasted much than 5 hours, she told lawmakers that, successful her domiciled arsenic unit caput and elder advisor to nan erstwhile president betwixt 2021 and 2023, she was authorized to nonstop autopen signatures connected behalf of Biden, an Oversight Committee charismatic told Fox News.

Former Biden adjutant Neera Tanden testified earlier nan House Oversight Committee regarding President Biden's intelligence decline. (Reuters)

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"Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal relationship pinch President Biden, contempt wielding tremendous authority," Comer said astatine nan time. "She explained that to get support for autopen signatures, she would nonstop determination memos to members of nan President’s soul circle and had nary visibility of what occurred betwixt sending nan memo and receiving it backmost pinch approval. Her grounds raises superior questions astir who was really calling nan shots successful nan Biden White House amid nan President’s evident decline. We will proceed to prosecute nan truth for nan American people."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.