Biden doctor Kevin O’Connor invokes Fifth Amendment when asked if he lied?

Let's see, I refuse to answer because anything I might say might land me in the Big House. Honestly, I think he'd be extremely popular in there.

Biden doctor Kevin O’Connor invokes Fifth Amendment when asked if he lied about ex-prez’s health

By Josh Christenson and Kendall White, NY Post

Published July 9, 2025

Biden doctor Kevin O’Connor invokes Fifth Amendment when asked if he lied about ex-prez’s health

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s former doctor refused to answer a single question Wednesday about the ex-president’s health and cognitive decline — stunningly invoking his right against self-incrimination before slinking out of a congressional deposition.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor is facing claims that he shielded the public from Biden’s decline while the 46th president was in office — and even covered up his powerful patient’s advanced-stage prostate cancer.

“Dr. O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed after the doctor’s swift departure.

“Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?”

“Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duties?”

In both instances, O’Connor took the Fifth.

“This is unprecedented, and I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up,” Comer declared.

In a subsequent statement, the Kentucky Republican added it was “clear there was a conspiracy to cover up” the 46th president’s declining mental acuity.

“Congress must assess legislative solutions to prevent such a cover-up from happening again,” he added. “We will continue to interview more Biden White House aides to get the answers Americans deserve.”

In an unusual move, the committee posted footage of O’Connor’s aborted closed-door interview on X, tweeting: “What are they hiding?”

The only question O’Connor did answer before the deposition concluded was confirming his name, according to an Oversight spokesperson, who pointed out that doctor-patient privilege would have allowed the witness to answer at least some questions.

Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who served as physician to the president during Barack Obama’s first term, agreed with that interpretation.

“In my opinion, [the first question] doesn’t involve HIPAA,” Kuhlman told The Post.

As for the second question, Kuhlman advised, “I don’t think that’s covered by HIPAA,” because it “doesn’t sound like that’s specific health information that they’re seeking.”

When asked whether he would answer questions under oath that don’t directly relate to a patient’s health, Kuhlman said: “In my role as a physician caring for a patient, I probably would.”

Kuhlman, who published the book “Transforming Presidential Healthcare,” in November 2024, has repeatedly called for Biden and other elderly politicians to be subjected to annual mental fitness tests.

Former Biden White House officials weren’t surprised at O’Connor’s move, with one telling The Post the doctor is “incredibly loyal and I never expected him to say anything.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who was present for the deposition, claimed “as someone who has served as a criminal defense attorney” that there was nothing scandalous about O’Connor’s Irish exit.

“I think that he did what any good lawyer would advise him to do, and it seems like he had two good lawyers in the room today,” Crockett said, arguing that O’Connor could have lost his medical license for disclosing patient records — even those of a former president.

The outspoken Texas Democrat also defended Biden’s record, saying “he completely understood what was going on” and “may get fumbled up by words, but that’s not anything new and it’s not anything that came with age.”

“There is nothing about Joe Biden and his stutter or him being older that caused any issues as it relates to potentially harming the American people,” Crockett declared.

“The reality is that the country wasn’t off the rails when Joe Biden was sitting in the White House,” she added of the chief executive who 83% of Americans had said was leading the country off the rails halfway through his term — and who left office with a record-low approval rating.

The next scheduled Oversight Committee interview will take place Friday with Ashley Williams, the former special assistant to the president and deputy director of Oval Office operations.

Annie Tomasini, former assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff, will sit for an interview on July 18.

Comer told reporters that O’Connor invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination lent more credibility to bombshell claims made in the Biden White House tell-all “Original Sin” published May 20 by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

The co-authors alleged that a “Politburo” of close senior advisers — including Tomasini — served as the “ultimate decision-makers” in the last White House.

Other purported “Politburo” members who will sit for interviews with the Oversight panel include ex-White House chief of staff Ron Klain (July 24), former counselor to the president Steve Ricchetti (July 30), former senior adviser Mike Donilon (July 31) and former deputy chief of staff for policy Bruce Reed (Aug. 5).

Anita Dunn, who left the Biden White House in August 2024 after serving as a senior adviser to the president for communications, will sit for a transcribed interview Aug. 7.

The Trump White House had declined Tuesday to invoke executive privilege over any of O’Connor’s testimony, as it had for both ex-Biden aide Neera Tanden and Anthony Bernal, first lady Jill Biden’s top aide.

Tanden testified for five hours without being shielded by the executive authority and told reporters afterward that there was “absolutely not” a cover-up of Biden’s diminishing mental fitness.

“There’s more and more evidence that comes out every day that would suggest that the president was in a pretty severe mental decline, so we’re going to ask about that,” Comer had said before the deposition.

“We can’t have the physician’s office not being truthful about the health condition of the president,” he added, noting that the interview was part of a larger investigation into who in the Biden White House was authorized to use an autopen that signed executive actions and pardons.

O’Connor attorney David Schertler also represented former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci during his testimony before the Oversight’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic last year.

A former public liaison at the National Institutes of Health, which oversees NIAID, pleaded the Fifth last August rather than answer questions about whether she coached a Fauci aide about how to evade requests for federal records critical to uncovering the origins of COVID-19.