Dr. Kevin O’Connor appeared before the House Oversight Committee, but he had little to say about the investigation into the alleged cover-up of President Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline. The former White House physician invoked his privilege against self-incrimination in refusing to answer any questions. His prescription for the Committee seems clear: take a Fifth and call me in the morning (with an immunity grant). The question is now whether Congress will move to compel his testimony.
O’Connor appeared with counsel and repeatedly read the same line: “On the advice of counsel, I must respectfully decline to answer based on the physician patient privilege and the reliance on my right under the Fifth Amendment.”
GOP members were quick to quote Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) who declared that “you don’t take the Fifth if you didn’t do anything wrong.”
The development adds another interesting dimension to the controversy over the alleged cover-up of Biden’s decline.
Dr. O’Connor insists that he cannot compromise a patient’s privacy under federal law and ethical guidelines. However, his client was the president of the United States, and Congress is investigating allegations that he was no longer competent or engaged in running the nation. That raises potential criminal conduct from falsification of documents to perjury that an oversight committee is pursuing.
Generally, courts have waived confidentiality protections for reporters, doctors, and lawyers under a crime or fraud exception in federal criminal cases. A good example is the testimony of the psychiatrist in the Menendez brothers’ murder case.
Dr. O’Connor is an essential witness in that investigation. President Biden has clearly not given him the authority to fully disclose the medical records and testing results from his presidency. The question could become whether Congress can now compel such disclosures. Both Biden and O’Connor could go to court to seek to prevent such compulsion.
Congress often examines private information, including tax records and background investigations, as part of its oversight functions. Moreover, many past investigations would have been obstructed by sweeping privacy claims. Consider the Kennedy assassination investigation into the examinations of the president or confirmation fights over allegations of mental or physical disabilities of nominees.
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), subpoenas are regularly used to obtain otherwise protected medical information. The law specifically allows for disclosures in criminal or fraud investigations.
Moreover, many questions would not trip such wires, including the question that he was asked about whether anyone asked him to falsify medical records.
Congress has a compelling basis for demanding disclosure. However, the question is time. With the approaching midterm elections, the runway is getting shorter for the Oversight Committee. If the Democrats retake the House, these investigations will be halted, as Democratic members have pledged to resume impeachment investigations targeting President Trump.
The House Oversight Committee could grant Dr. O’Connor immunity and compel his testimony. He would then have to either secure a court order of protection or face a contempt of Congress charge for refusing to testify. If he elected to testify, he would still be subject to potential charges for any false statements made to investigators or committee members.
There is sufficient time to compel such testimony, but the Committee will have to move with some dispatch if it wants to hear more from the doctor.
When will you get off the “Biden Derangement Syndrome” and start using your Virtual Bullypulpit to reflect upon how Donald Trump is trashing the Constitution–but I think that’s too much to ask.
Care to give any examples of this supposed “trashing”? No, of course not. Dismissed.
Those focusing on HIPAA are missing the whole point. Biden was the sitting President of the United States and there were serious and legitimate questions throughout his term, and even during his candidacy in 2020, about whether he was mentally fit to serve in the office. It was a 25th Amendment issue and HIPAA should have had no application at all. If it did because of the way the law was written or not written, then it needs to be amended to exclude the sitting President.
The people have a right to know the physical and mental health capacity of a President to serve. And I would argue that should include any person who has officially declared candidacy for the office under federal campaign law. Does this mean we should have access to that person’s entire medical history? No – only to know that person’s current medical fitness for the office. And for the purpose of the current Congressional inquiry, Biden’s fitness during those four years should be fair game and Congress should be able to compel that doctor to testify.
It would be very interesting to learn about O’Connor’s communications with his superiors, particularly during Special Counsel Hur’s classified documents investigation, which overlapped with Biden’s alleged waffling about firing American missiles on Russians.
The 25th Amendment appears to have had no impact during Biden’s illness, suggesting that the Amendment itself may have triggered a conspiracy of silence that should not be allowed to happen again.
“I know for a fact [Epstein] documents are being suppressed and they’re being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they’re being suppressed,” – Alan Dershowitz
Trump claimed the Epstein queries — made on the heels of Attorney General Pam Bondi saying there was no “client list” months after she told Fox News the list was sitting on her desk — were a waste of time. – DJT
One of the above people is lying. Both can’t be true. Who is the lier?
What’s a “lier” you dumb piece of crap? Damn are you a pathetic loser. At least learn to freaking spell small words. Why do you even exist? Just to be a counter example to show how not to be a successful person? Do you charge Trump rent to live in your diseased head?
Don’t you love the love that trump supporters ooze? such loving person above, when someone points out a discrepancy, he throws invectives.
You have made a broad claim that two statements can not both be true – when in fact there are many possibilities consistent with known facts where both are true.
But such fundimental logic errors are commonplace on the left.
Above Your Pay Grade – Classified – To Big To Tell
Not to worry, there’s a lot of classified information you will never know anything about, comrade.
Again why can’t both be true – your inability to handle logic has always been astounding.
Derschowitz and Trump are making Different – not inherently conflicting claims based on different knowlege.
Further BOTH are making statement of OPINION – not FACT.
Derschowitx can know names, but claims regarding the reasons for other peoples actions (or inactions) are always speculation and always opinion.
Next you do not actually quote Trump. Regardless, Your Claimed statemet by Trump is an opinion about the value of the inquiries from someone who was NOT an insider – Derschowitz was – he breifly and successfully represented Epstein.
As an example Trump could be calling the Epstein inquiries a “waste of time” because he NOW knows they will not target anyone he would like to see targeted.
My remark above is speculation. But it is still a possability that makes YOUR claim that two things can not both be true obviously false.
“As an example Trump could be calling the Epstein inquiries a “waste of time” because he NOW knows they will not target anyone he would like to see targeted. ”
I don’t agree with Baby Trump’s assessment. I am a conservative-leaning libertarian who has generally supported Trump and his initiatives. However, I have to completely break with his administration on this issue. Even if your speculation (about Trump declining to pursue this because of who would be exposed) is true, would that not be justifiable grounds for impeachment? Or does ignoring and/or suppressing evidence of child sexual abuse, along with a possible failure to thoroughly investigate credible evidence of such abuse,fall within the bounds of Presidential discretion in your ethos? Regarding Bondi’s very suspicious claim about burying all of the video evidence because it shows vulnerable children, shouldn’t the individuals who were the children in those videos be consulted regarding their release? I seriously doubt that Virginia Giuffre was the only child sexually abused by these cretins who (as an adult) would be willing to compromise their own privacy if there was a viable chance of bringing the perps to justice. One irony here is that the current position of the Trump administration on this issue mitigates against any of the abused believing that coming forward would be a reasonable risk to take. Maybe that is part of the reason for killing the case. If I was Ghislane Maxwell’s lawyer, I would be all over this, as it appears that she is serving ~20 years in Federal prison for trafficking children to clients who never existed:
“They Were Child Porn. They Will Never Be Released”: Trump & Bondi Punt On Epstein Questions
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/12-key-questions-all- americans-should-ask-about-shameful-attempt-cover-truth-about
“Apparently we are supposed to believe that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a client list, he never blackmailed anyone, and he was solely responsible for his own death…”
It appears that the Trump people hope this will all just die down and blow away, but I certainly have hopes that will not be the case, bolstered by polls such as this one at Just the News, which, while I believe some of the responses to be misguided and give the administration too much leeway, shows only a tiny fraction (3%, currently) of that site’s generally strongly Trump-supporting conservative readership buys the story as presented by Bondi:
https://justthenews.com/accountability/you-vote-light-new-reports-trump-admin-about-epstein-what-do-you-think
I also hope that Alan Dershowitz is as smart as he seems, and has the names and evidence summary for the perps on that list archived in some place governed by a dead man switch in such a way that it will automatically be broadcast far and wide on the internet if he doesn’t check in for a period of time. Otherwise, I’d be forced to take the under bet on his surviving the next few months.
I would also challenge any conservative or libertarian who is inclined to give Trump and his administration a pass on burying this issue to ask themselves about the balance between furthering their political and financial agenda, and shielding powerful individuals who ruined the lives of children by means of sexual abuse pandered by Epstein and Maxwell.
==Fixed broken ZeroHedge link==
“They Were Child Porn. They Will Never Be Released”: Trump & Bondi Punt On Epstein Questions
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/12-key-questions-all-americans-should-ask-about-shameful-attempt-cover-truth-about
“Apparently we are supposed to believe that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t have a client list, he never blackmailed anyone, and he was solely responsible for his own death…”
. Have you ruled out MI6 and CIA espionage? Maxwell certainly had the connections?
Then Alan Dershowitz should name names. Until then he is just flapping his gums. Don’t get me wrong, I agree there is a coverup. But someone with guts knows and needs to stand up and name names.
Alan Dershowitz at his age and with his celerity should be fearless not fearful.
Derschowitz briefly represented epstein when Florida was going after him
What Derschowitz knows from that period may be protected.
“Then Alan Dershowitz should name names”
Dershowitz claims to be bound against releasing that information by confidentiality agreement. Ordinarily, I would respect that and agree with him, However, this is imo an extraordinary, nearly unique, legal situation, with moral and ethical issues of its own that demand fresh consideration. I have frequently disagreed with Dershowitz on political issues, but I do not regard hims as a liar or a BS artist. I’m convinced the man knows something incriminating.
so baby. Why didn’t Biden release the files?
Hmmmmm.
OT; you wanna know how nutty MAGA right-wing militias are? In Oklahoma they are attacking weather radars because they seriously believe the government is manipulating the weather. This is the same mentality that rendered MAGA Elstein fans into rage-aholics because Trump lied to them.
What’s this have to do with Democrats foisting a brain dead vegetable on the country? How’s this going to make the disastrous failed Biden presidency any better?
Government is manipulating the weather – just not through weather radar.
Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Global Warming is a HOAX
Claims regarding Global Warming are just weather on a global scale and multi-year time frame.
Given how badly we get weather over a small region and a few days – why should we beleive weather predictions years in advance ?
OT; you wanna know how nutty MAGA right-wing militias are?
Okay, I’ll bite. Are they anywhere near as psychotic, evil, and dangerous as you and your fellow Cheap Fake Soviet Democrat Marxist Useless Idiots?
10 Suspects Charged For Attempted Murder After Organized Attack On ICE Agents, Cop After Military-style Ambush: DOJ
https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/10-people-charged-for-organized-attack-on-ice-agents-cop-after-military-style-ambush-doj/
Also OT: if that’s the best you Soviet Democrat Bolshevik Birthing Boyz can do with a “military-style” ambush of unarmed ICE correctional officers, firing 30 rounds from 50 yards away, I laugh at your claims you’re going to “come and take your guns from your cold dead hands”.
Just makes me smirk and ask for an appointment if you want to make house calls to try and do that.
Try again fool. The news reports said noting about right-wing you loon.
*. OT.
District judgey wudgey LaPlante issued his injunction NOT WITHOUT heartstrings and the plaintiffs emotional argument of course. It wasn’t narrowed enough. What did Justice Alito say? Rule 36 for class ? Bet it’s dismissed. Coffee?
Sigh…
,*. Question OT. I’m an American in Italy on visa working and have a baby. The birth cert is Italian. Must I notify the embassy or some American entity of the birth? I must register the birth of an American citizen born in Italy. I’m an American and so is the child’s birth right. Birth right citizenship easily defined.
Citizenship fatigue. Best wishes to all and to all a good night.
The 14th established an inheritance for the new citizens after the civil war. Their children had a birthright as their citizenship was established.
The same holds true for all Americans whether your children are born here or foreign their birthright is inherited. An American must register the foreign born child.
Inheritance – more is expected of Americans, another standard is used for Americans? It’s absurd but cunning, sly, deceitful and with guile. Apparently there is a belief that SCOTUS can be fooled.
Tired of it. Thanks PT
Apologies in advance for a veddy veddy long comment.
I think there is some nuancing in comments here about physician-patient privilege (separate from physician-patient confidentiality).
Of course: the legal privilege belongs to Biden, not Dr. O’Connor.
As pointed out, Biden has not waived privilege. He may no longer be competent to do so.
(Dr. O’Connor would assert the privilege on behalf of his patient {Biden} –not for himself.)
(My earlier comment about using Jill Biden to breach/waive privilege…, is moot because she was apparently not present for his exam.)
Importantly, the controversy is aimed at O’Connor et al, NOT Biden.
No one is charging Biden with covering up his physical/mental condition(s).
BUT
Biden is no longer president. Congressional authority under the 25th Amendment (invoked by the vice president) is not applicable.
This makes Congressional subpoena power (to defeat an absence of waiver of privilege) a little more convoluted in requesting information about Biden’s physical/mental condition ex post facto–in order to prove a claim of misleading information as against a third party-his physician O’Connor and others (the claimed “cover-up”).
Proving that Dr. O’Connor was negligent or intentionally misleading in his assessment REQUIRES MORE THAN JUST THE PUBLIC’S PERCEPTION of Biden’s competence- which may conflict with O’Connor’s assessment. It is true that internal medical oversight Boards and regulatory reviewers may access O’Connor’s examination records along with Biden’s medical records, and without waiver of privilege, information may be divulged in response to subpoenas {(see 45 CFR 164.512(e)}.– but non-compliance with Congressional subpoenas usually end up with judicial in-camera review and adjudication, and here, again, Congress is not investigating Biden, it’s leveling its demands against O’Connor.
Therefore, waiver of privilege by Biden (implied, inadvertent or affirmative) remains the most direct avenue. And even though my earlier comment about using Jill Biden to do so (as a present third-party) is moot because it appears that she was not present for Joe’s examination, I still believe she could be subpoenaed for any third-party presence in any post-examination discussions between Biden and O’Connor or other examiners.
So I would agree with Professor Turley: expect at least an initial standoff.
(my legal background with a large firm centered on two areas, one of which was defending medical providers (physician or facility/institution).
☺. Thanks. So where is it going?
The public’s perception is everything as in voters. Maybe just the nobility actually votes unknown to the serfs.
Michael Jackson’s records were released after death. Any similar cases to Joe.
Requires MORE THAN JUST THE PUBLIC’S PERCEPTION. Nothing more than the public’s perception is needed when ballots are marked. He was elected. Dr. Jill isn’t waiving and it’s going nowhere.
Great nothing happened in four years except the invasion of Israel, invasion of US , college riots and hostages and some other stuff.
Thanks. ☺
*. THE REPUBLICANS FAILED A TIMELY INVESTIGATION.
Journalism continues to sink. 27 people overdosed in Baltimore. On what drug?
Anyone know the case name of class action birthright LaPlante accepted? Not reported.
PT, this is a snooty blog. I’m this or that. I’m a commoner and think law should be readily understood. There’s more of us.
KBJ is AA. Here it is. She and sotomayor take up all the time like Tom and Jerry. Glad she has time to say how she feels and the diagnosis is DEI, CRT.
Tragedy.
Maryland State has no common physician patient confidentiality. O’Connor licensed Maryland? Hand them over to limited viewers.
It’s a helluva spot when officials can be subjected to this scrutiny making it nearly impossible to find any good people for offices including the Presidency. Then there’s always the stellar officials, Cortez, Bowman, the bell ringer, Padilla, Mccivers whatever….
So they’ll subpoena the med records.
L: “without waiver of privilege”
O’Connor made this *public* statement about Biden’s medical condition:
Biden is “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.’’
Does such a statement pierce privilege?
Hello Sam: No, I do not believe that statement breaches privilege as it does not constitute a communication for which Biden would have an expectation of privacy, nor does it divulge personal medical information about Biden pursuant to that examination and communications. Nor do I believe it would constitute a HIPAA violation of confidentiality unless O’Connor’s statement of opinion included, and made reference to (without Biden’s consent), personally-identifiable clinical findings, Dx, Hx, Tx, etc. contained in records). Just my opinion. thx
Thanks L.
I imagine the docs handwritten med notes were kept in a vault. No one read them. No one present.
” my earlier comment about using Jill Biden to do so (as a present third-party) is moot”
If Joe Biden is not competent to waive confidentiality, and Jill Biden is his legal guardian (unknown to me, but reasonable speculation), would she not be qualified to waive that privilege on his behalf? There also really should be some legal differentiation between Joe Biden’s personal confidentiality privilege and determining whether numerous actions he (allegedly) took as President were legally authorized by him. Whether that could be done in compliance with both the Constitution and proper doctor-patient ethics unfortunately is questionable.
(1) Yes, she could if that were included in her scope of representation as deemed by her appointment authorization as “guardian.” But because of potential conflict of interest, I would argue for a court-appointed guardian ad litem, which shifts the responsibility from advocacy to investigatory duty in recommending what is best for a ward.
(2) Not quite following you but, playing out what I believe you pose, a separate medical expert could be called forward to assess Biden’s released medical records and communications, along with other material (e.g., interviews with staff) , then offer an opinion/testify as to his/her conclusions as related to Biden’s capacity to make presidential decisions and/or authorize Autopen.
Why go after the doctor? If there is culpability, look to Biden’s inner circle. Did they imposter as the President through signatures and documents? Leave the M.D. alone…it makes you (Comer) look like bullies.
The doc informed the central committee. Harm to himself and or others? Apparently the gang had his office covered.
Where does it lead? It would be a different story if these people were jailed as were Navarro and others. The repubs just don’t fight.
This is all a charade. HIPAA gives any government authority full access to your medical records. HIPAA should be demolished and replaced with real pirvacy. Instead, it gives full access to anyone who does not need it other than certain medical employees and staff. Congress, as an agent of the government, hase full access to all medical records of any US citizen.
This is a classic example of the complete and total ignorance that is constantly on display in this miserable excuse for a LEGAL blog.
HIPAA has absolutely nothing to do with government access to health records.
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The entire point of the Act is to ensure privacy with regard to health information as it is transmitted between covered entities as necessary to complete insurance claims and payment.
Covered entities include doctors, hospitals, health plans, insurance companies and billing agencies that handle insurance claims.
It simply sets a standard for ensuring security for personally identifiable health information as it is electronically transmitted among the covered entities.
It does not confer a right of access to ANYONE.
Other laws and ethical rules protect ACCESS to health information.
HIPAA simply standardizes the requirements to protect information as it is transmitted electronically for the purposes of insurance claims and payments.
That is why the word INSURANCE is in the title.
From Turley’s piece today, it is obvious that even he does not understand the purpose of HIPAA and what it does.
Outsiders can read your insurance claims and office staffs. It’s hardly hidden. I always pay cash and use a fictitious name. 😏. I have. Nothing’s safe except what can’t be brought into court.
Investigation of Dr. O’Connor would have limited viewing?
Insurance claims are compiled, transmitted and paid electronically.
They are not something that can be READ by outsiders.
They are not pieces of paper lying around that “anyone can read”.
HIPAA simply sets standards for the encryption and security of claims as they are electronically transmitted.
Office staff compile the claims in the electronic health record system used by the medical practice. They are covered entities for the purpose of HIPAA. Even if an “outsider” could see the claim being generated it would be gibberish to the uninformed. The claim is simply a set of alphanumeric codes that define the diagnosis, treatment, or procedure performed, and the amount billed.
The claim only exists in cyberspace. To “read” the claim an “outsider” would have to look over the shoulder of the staff person entering the data into the computer system. Even if an “outsider” managed to look over the shoulder of that person the actual information is encoded.
And HIPAA requires that all office areas where personally identifiable health information is handled must be secured and locked with no public access.
Oh duh and the magic fairies mark all that stuff on computers and carry it off on their wings… look under your pillow.
No need for those pesky papers people sign. Oh goody
HIPPAA applies to more than just claims, but also medical records and oral disclosure of medical information. The law also contains limits on what can be disclosed, and it is VERY questionable whether the “law enforcement” exception applies to a political inquiry such as a Congressional Committee. The administrative request exemption reads:
“(C) An administrative request,
including an administrative subpoena
or summons, a civil or an authorized
investigative demand, or similar
process authorized under law,
provided that:
(1) The information sought is
relevant and material to a legitimate
law enforcement inquiry;
(2) The request is specific and
limited in scope to the extent
reasonably practicable in light of the
purpose for which the information is
sought; and
(3) De-identified information could
not reasonably be used. ”
The question is open to whether the conditions in paragraph (1) are meant, and IMHO that is very doubtful when the oversight relates primarily to a *political* question.
Since the law places the physician at risk of both criminal AND civil liability, I personally believe he is wise to invoke the Fifth as any statement regarding Biden’s health – which is the only reason he is being called – opens him to incriminating himself by committing a violation if he gives an answer. He is not taking it because he committed a crime, but because by answering committee questions he would commit one.
Anonymous – Hippa covers aspects of medical record privacy beyond those that you reference. It is not limited to processing insurnce claims, and it is not limited to covered entities.
John Say
You are delusional. Your flights of fancy concerning knowledge of anything and everything are absurd. You come here every day and expound interminably about things of which you have no understanding.
You simply make stuff up.
YOU KNOW LESS THAN NOTHING ABOUT HIPAA !!!!!
I am retired physician, and my wife and one of my children are attorneys who specialize in healthcare.
A few years ago we set up a consulting service to help smaller practices navigate the requirements for compliance with HIPAA, which can be quite complex. There are many complex documents that have to be filed and there are requirements for training and certification of individuals who will handle personally identifiable health information. There are also requirements for certification and testing of computer systems to make sure they are compliant with the encryption standards specified by HIPAA. There are also requirements to use electronic health records, and any systems used have to be certified and tested for compliance.
This is all very labor intensive and expensive. Many small practices have difficulty in achieving full compliance. In such cases they turn to consulting services like ours. We provide turnkey compliant systems, and also offer a billing service if the practice decides it is not cost effective to set up their own systems.
I have forgotten more about HIPAA than you will ever know.
The “I” in HIPAA is for insurance.
HIPAA is concerned with the protection of personally identifiable health information ONLY in relation to a patient’s insurance, and the way in which such health information related to claims and payments is shared by electronic transmission between the interested parties, known as covered entities.
You are a complete idiot, and have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
You can have my records. Transparency. Have at. I have all of mine in fact. Handwritten. 1000 pages.
Secret drawer.
Not this nonsense again.
I was personally involved in a legal case where HIPPA was critical – and there was not an insurance company within 10,000 miles. nor did it involve communications between medical providers.
Unlike you I am NOT stupid enough to make sweeping statements about a significant and non trivial law.
Except to say that you are misrepresenting HIPPA as more limited than it actually is.
Again – YOU are the complete idiot that does not know what you are talking about.
And I am not the one who has made a broad claim that is obviously wrong.
HIPPA likely does address the communications YOU claimed – That was NOT part fo the legal issue that I was a party too. But I can state ABSOLUTELY that HIPPA covers the privacy of medical information that you claim it does not
I would suggest that you go READ THE LAW – the ENTIRE law
You are wrong. I am a health services researcher – epidemiologist and health economist, currently the lead researcher and economist for a large TPA managing health plans, with past experience as a QA officer in a state public health lab and as an academic- and have read the law carefully to protect myself. It applies to FAR more than insurance data, as the definition of protected health information is:
“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to the individual, or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual…”
We really looked into this in depth when I was with a state health department’s laboratory division, where we rarely dealt with insurance information. We had to change a number of practices after it passed, including the practice of faxing lab reports to local health units (in many, the fax machine was located in a public area accessible to clients, something we discovered to our horror on CLIA check-ups for their PPMP or Waiver certificates) – lab reports are NOT insurance claims data. A microbiologist was terminated after getting caught disseminating HIV status data in the local gay community. We went so far as to set up separate lab information systems on physically distinct servers for the environmental and the clinical lab data – the former was FOIA accessible, the latter was HIPPAA protected, and the separation reinforced security against an accidental or intentional unauthorized access by the environmental lab scientists. The AGENCY could access private medical records under the public health exception, but not everyone within the agency had a legitimate reason to access identified data. Even as a QA officer, I had no legitimate need to access individual clinical identifiable test results past seeing that CLIA-required identification data was supplied – which did not require access to individual results in the results table.
True. Thanks . Fake assurances to protect themselves.
Oh OK, it’s completely coded so much so no.one can read it not even the insurance providers. I feel.personally better now.
I pay cash no notes if someone’s stalking.
George performed as the star of The Three Democrat Political Stooges as always: Turley is trying to argue a point that is legally weak. He suggests that keeping Biden’s health condition private is a crime, but he fails to cite any relevant law.
1. The DC Court of Appeals has previously ruled that physicians can’t hide what they did (and failed to do) under “doctor-patient privilege” – only if appearing in a court of law, which the Senate is not. There’s your legal reference George – does your appalling lack of reading comprehension prevent you from completing the last 10% of your homework to find the relevant law you’re demanding?
2. The AMA has already written in their Code Of Ethics that “doctor/patient confidentiality” is overwritten by a subpoena: Medical Ethics Opinion 9.7.1
3. Biden’s beard – this Democrat quack and long term Biden business associate – has spent the past FOUR YEARS VOLUNTARILY AND REPEATEDLY speaking about his patient’s medical condition, diseases, and medical history in public settings.
So what’s the point of having these investigations?
The answer to your rhetorical question that you are too terrified to answer yourself: Just the same as with The First Felon Bagman Son; it isn’t this Biden business associate and medical quack that is the point of these investigations.
The point is that both this business and medical quack, just like the junior partner in Biden White House Crime LLC, are a doorway that opens up into the crime cartel practices of the Democrat party going back well before there was a President AutoPen operating in the White House.
🤔 hope?
*. Instead of investigation this might be titled as an inquiry. What are the reasons the 25th failed? How are cabinets created comprised of the VP and departments with the sly , cunning and deceitful in collusion creating a national security risk? What caused the congressional Republicans failure to inquire and take action?
Very serious and repeated failure of the 25th and officials.