Overview
- Chairman James Comer asked the D.C. Board of Medicine to investigate Dr. Kevin O’Connor and consider discipline up to revoking his license.
- Comer separately urged the Justice Department to review whether conduct by O’Connor and two other former aides during White House service could be criminal.
- The GOP-led report alleges Biden aides coordinated to hide signs of decline and faults O’Connor for not performing cognitive tests, which it says he called “meaningless.”
- The report notes O’Connor’s February 2024 letter describing Biden as “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old” and stating a detailed neurologic exam ruled out Parkinson’s, with no results released.
- O’Connor invoked his Fifth Amendment right in a July deposition; his lawyers said the privilege does not imply wrongdoing and raised physician–patient confidentiality, while the board and DOJ have not announced any action.