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First Fox: President Donald Trump’s White House is waiving enforcement privileges for former President Joe Biden’s inner circle, Fox News Digital has learned.
Former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor was scheduled to testify this week by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Kommer on allegations that senior Biden aides concealed the president’s mental and physical decline.
“In light of the unique and extraordinary nature of the situation under investigation, President Trump has determined that the claims of enforcement privilege are not in the national interest and therefore are not justified in regard to certain subjects within the House Oversight Committee,” he said Fox News Digital received a letter to O’Connor sent from the White House.
“These subjects include former President Biden’s fitness for the presidency and his assessment of financial relations with the Biden family.”
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When contacted for comment, O’Connor’s lawyer confirmed the receipt of a letter from the White House Lawyer’s office.
Comer summoned O’Connor last week after a doctor refused to voluntarily show up for a transcribed interview with House investigators.
However, O’Connor’s lawyer petitioned for a weekend delay, calling the scope of the investigation “unprecedented.”
“We are not aware of the previous opportunity that Congressional Committees summoned doctors to testify about the treatment of individual patients,” O’Connor’s legal team wrote. “And the notion that a Congressional Committee does so without any relation to the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship is surprising.”
A House Oversight Committee spokesperson called their letters “a delayed tactic to force them to step into the Observatory Committee’s investigation.”
James Kommer, chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee, is leading an investigation into the former president. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
The deposition date has not been changed and if O’Connor does not appear, it could risk violating Congress’s subpoena.
A letter Tuesday from the White House Lawyer’s office said, “The extraordinary events in this matter constitute an exceptional situation ensuring accommodation to Congress. We read evidence that the aide to the former president’s aide concealed information about his fitness to use the president’s power.
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“It is the President’s view that, once we have balanced the interests of accommodation and administrative agencies, it is an exceptional situation, particularly given the interests of the administrative agencies themselves in determining the validity of previous administrative measures, as required based on the accommodation process, that, as is the case with regard to the government’s own interest in determining the validity of previous administrative measures,” the letter states.
President Donald Trump’s White House waived enforcement privileges on Biden’s former doctors. (Rick Stelli)
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The former Top Biden aide and the current allies of the former president have argued that there is no cover-up in the democratic White House. But following Biden’s disastrous June 2024 performance of his disastrous debate, his astounding exit from the presidential race raised questions about workplace fitness.
Comer summoned former top top aide Biden for a closed door interview, including former Ronald Crane’s former Chief of Staff O’Connor and former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Former Chief of Staff Director Neera Tanden appeared in a transcribed interview last month.
Elizabeth Elkind is the main reporter of Fox News Digital’s reporting in the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen on Daily Mail and CBS News.
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