Biden doctor, Neera Tanden among five summoned by House GOP after ex-prezs prostate cancer diagnosis
WASHINGTON — House Republicans want to hear from former President Joe Biden’s doctor and four key aides to discuss his mental and physical decline — after the ex-president, 82, revealed Sunday that he has prostate cancer ahead of the Tuesday release of a bombshell book on the concealment of his waning mental faculties as he sought re-election last year.Dr.Kevin O’Connor, Anthony Bernal, Annie Tomasini, Ashley Williams and Neera Tanden each received letters from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) Thursday demanding that they sit for transcribed interviews over the next month with committee members and staff — with subpoenas likely if they fail to do so.O’Connor, the jovial but elusive longtime physician and friend of the Biden family — and one-time business associate of Joe’s brother James Biden, is the top target — as medical experts have incredulously asked how he could have missed the president’s cancer that has spread to his bones or proclaimed Biden mentally and physically fit for another four-year term.The House panel “is investigating the accuracy, transparency, and credibility of your medical assessments of former President Joe Biden given his recent acknowledgment of an advanced physical condition and a publicly apparent cognitive decline,” Comer wrote to O’Connor.“The Committee continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding your assessment in February 2024 that former President Biden was ‘a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,'” the letter says.“Further, the Committee remains interested in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President.
Given your connections with the Biden family, the Committee seeks to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to ser...