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Aged White House physician Kevin O’Connor’s closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee ended after decrease than an hour on Wednesday morning, with the physician giving investigators merely about no novel insights.

O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Modification to a total lot of questions about his time with frail President Joe Biden at some level of his sit down-down. It resulted in a quick stop to what could maybe maybe had been an hours-lengthy deposition.

“I’m going to read the first two questions that were asked. ‘Were you ever told to lie about the president’s health?’ He pleaded the Fifth Amendment. He would not answer that question. The second question, ‘Did you ever believe President Biden was unfit to execute his duty?'” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told journalists after the meeting.

“Again, President Biden’s White House physician pled the fifth. This is unprecedented, and I think that this adds more fuel to the fire that there was a cover-up.”

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Aged President Joe Biden’s alleged mental decline is being investigated (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)

The physician’s lawyers said O’Connor’s refusal to acknowledge to questions about Fifth Modification grounds changed into not an request for forgiveness, but reasonably a response to what they saw as an unprecedented investigatory scope that could maybe maybe admire violated the limits of affected person-physician privilege.

“This Committee has indicated to Dr. O’Connor and his attorneys that it does not intend to honor one of the most well-known privileges in our law – the physician patient privilege. Instead, the Committee has indicated that it will demand that Dr. O’Connor reveal, without any limitations, confidential information regarding his medical examinations, treatment, and care of President Biden,” the authorized skilled assertion said.

“Revealing confidential patient information would violate the most fundamental ethical duty of a physician, could result in revocation of Dr. O’Connor’s medical license, and would subject Dr. O’Connor to potential civil liability. Dr. O’Connor will not violate his oath of confidentiality to any of his patients, including President Biden.”

The House Oversight Committee has been investigating whether Biden’s frail top aides lined up proof of his mental and bodily decline while in plot of job. Biden’s allies admire denied such allegations.

But Comer suggested to journalists that O’Connor’s invocation of the Fifth Modification could maybe maybe had been proof quite the opposite.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer is leading the probe. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)

“Most people invoke the fifth when they have criminal liability. And so that’s what would appear on the surface here,” he said. “We’re going to continue to move forward. Obviously, I think his actions today speak loud and clear.”

But O’Connor’s lawyers wrote of their assertion, “We want to emphasize that asserting the Fifth Amendment privilege does not imply that Dr. O’Connor has committed any crime. In fact, to the contrary, as our Supreme Court has emphasized: ‘One of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions is to protect
innocent men who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.'”

Meanwhile, Accumulate. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who made a shock appearance on the interview and changed into the finest lawmaker there, set for Comer, defended O’Connor’s utilize of the Fifth Modification.

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“As someone who has served as a criminal defense attorney and actually been in courtrooms, it’s kind of astounding to hear someone say, if you invoke the Fifth Amendment, that is only because you are guilty,” Crockett said. 

She pointed out that the Trump administration had launched a contemporaneous criminal probe.

“We have a constitutional right that anyone who may be under fire can invoke. And unfortunately, with this rogue DOJ, it has decided that it wants to run a contemporaneous investigation, criminal investigation, involving the doctor – I think he did what any good lawyer would advise him to do,” Crockett said.

O’Connor’s lawyers admire requested the committee to forestall its investigation while the Division of Justice (DOJ) probe is underway.

He and his true crew perceived to safe journalists all of a sudden with their quick exit on Wednesday morning, roughly thirty minutes after entering.

Regarded as one of O’Connor’s lawyers said they’ll be making “no comments to press” per a shouted search information from by Fox News Digital.

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Comer, for his section, insisted the investigation would inch on.

“This is something I think every American is concerned about. I think that the American people want to know the truth. We’re going to continue this investigation. We’ll move forward,” Comer said. “We have several other witnesses that are going to come in for depositions and transcribed interviews. We will do everything in our ability to be transparent with the media and be transparent with the American people.”

The committee previously interviewed frail Biden workers secretary Neera Tanden. Comer has summoned several varied ex-White House aides to appear.