Pants on fire: Biden’s personal physician pleads Fifth in order to avoid talking about hiding the decline
- July 9, 2025
Suzanne Downing, Must Read Alaska
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the former personal physician to President Joe Biden, invoked the Fifth Amendment (right to not self-incriminate) on Wednesday during a closed-door deposition before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. O’Connor refused to answer questions as part of an ongoing congressional investigation into Biden’s cognitive health while in office.
On the same day as O’Connor’s deposition, government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust filed a formal complaint with the D.C. Board of Medicine, calling for an investigation into the physician’s handling of Biden’s diagnosis and questioning whether O’Connor violated medical ethics.
“Physicians and other healthcare professionals must comply with strict standards of behavior,” PPT said in its filing, citing medical board rules that prohibit willfully filing false records, misrepresenting treatment, or demonstrating a careless disregard for a patient’s welfare, even if no harm occurs.
The watchdog’s complaint points to a series of public statements from the White House over the course of Biden’s presidency, which portrayed the president as healthy and mentally fit. That narrative persisted even as questions abounded among medical professionals and the American public regarding his visible signs of frailty, his trips and falls, and his constant verbal bumblings.