A White House doctor called cognitive tests “meaningless”, said Biden

The former doctor of the White House, Kevin O’Connor, had previously rejected cognitive tests as “meaningless”, according to a source of the container administration, Bruce Reed told the room investigators on Tuesday, according to a familiar source with the procedure.

Reed, who was deputy chief of staff to the White House for politics, is the ninth member of the interior circle of former president Joe Biden to sit with the lawyers of the Chamber’s supervisory committee.

A familiar source with his interview told Fox News Digital that Reed had attributed Biden’s disastrous debate in 2024 against the candidate of the time Donald Trump to the stuttering of the former president, a condition that was well documented and Biden himself has publicly recognized.

But his winding and apparently tired behavior on stage with Trump alarmed both Democrats and media experts, who saw him as a blatant sign of Biden’s advanced age. He precipitated both a public and private thrust of the left legislators for Biden to abandon the race – which he did in July 2024.

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The Chamber’s supervisory committee interviewed President Joe Biden, Kevin O’Connor last month in his Biden’s mental decline. (Manual Balce Ceneta / AP)

When he was asked if the public concerns about the mental acuity of Biden were legitimate, however, the source told Fox News Digital that Reed said that he thought that the Americans should not have worried about the mental faculties of the former president.

Reed also told investigators that “the President’s communications team provided that the question of a cognitive test would probably be raised” in Biden’s interview with ABC News Host George Stephanopoulos after the debate.

“Reed also explained that President Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, rejected cognitive tests as” meaning “,” said the source.

O’Connor was among the first former managers of the White House summoned by room investigators and sat with them last month after being forced by assignment.

But his plate lasted less than an hour, the doctor aimed at invoking the fifth amendment to avoid answering all the questions but his name. His lawyers said at the time that this was due to concerns about the violation of the doctor-patient’s confidentiality.

In his own interview on Tuesday, Reed also defended the preference of the Biden 2024 campaign to hold the debate sooner than typical of a presidential cycle, the source said.

The former deputy chief of staff of the Bruce Reed policy is the ninth former assistant to the Biden administration to appear before the chamber’s supervisory committee. (Getty Images)

“During his interview, Reed said that the decision to keep the debate early was a deliberate strategy to get ahead of early voting and the Olympic Games. He stressed that the pressure of the campaign for early debate was not linked to concerns about the age of President Biden,” said the source.

Extracts from Reed’s opening declaration to investigators, obtained by Fox News Digital via a second familiar source with the interview, show that he categorically defended the cognitive capacities of Biden.

“Although I only be able to talk about my own observations, I had the advantage of working with President Biden almost every day of his presidency. Despite his age, President Biden has maintained implacable work ethics, adopted complex policy issues and addressed decisions with diligence and deliberation,” said Reed, according to the source.

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Reed also described Biden as “a demanding boss who regularly toasted staff members on a subject until he reaches the limits of our knowledge so that he could judge whether to trust our advice”, although “that did not mean that he would take it”.

“From the first days at the White House at the last, President Biden ruled the same way he went there, trusting his own values and instincts,” said Reed, according to La Source.

“There is no more difficult test than the presidency: President Biden asked difficult questions, has made difficult decisions and has led his country well in difficult times for the nation and the world.”

The chairman of the James Comer Chamber Supervisory and Chamber Compensation directs the investigation (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

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President James Comer, R-Ky., Ask the question of whether Biden’s superior aid worked to cover evidence of the former president’s mental decline, and if Biden did not make the final decision on the executive issues signed by Autopen.

The myriad of leniency orders is particularly interesting that Biden in the second half of his presidency, although the former president declared The New York Times Last month, he was behind each decision.

His allies also rejected the Commer’s investigation as purely political.

Fox News Digital contacted Reed’s advice and lawyers for O’Connor to comment but did not hear in press times.