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Doctor's Note: The Autopen Was President, and Everyone Knew It

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The week’s least surprising news triggered one of the most surprising op-
eds, from none other than The Washington Post’s entire Editorial Board. 
The headline: “Americans deserve an unflinching investigation into Biden’s 
health.” Now they want one.

It was a “somebody didn’t say something” story. The ‘somebody’ was Biden’s 
longtime personal physician (aka fixer), Kevin O’Connor. What Dr. O’Connor 
didn’t say during his Congressional testimony this week was anything 
useful about the former President’s soggy brain or the overworked Oval 
Office Autopen, when instead he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment 
right not to answer questions lest those answers prove inconveniently 
incriminating.

Dr. O’Connor’s lawyers first sought to delay his testimony to negotiate 
some rules about navigating the doctor-patient privilege. However, courts 
have ruled that doctors may testify about HIPAA-protected information if 
legally compelled, such as by subpoena. And the doctor-patient privilege 
is one of the weakest, with no common law history. And courts have often 
waived it for criminal proceedings.

Representative James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight 
Committee (which conducted the hearing), refused to delay, and O’Connor’s 
ugly non-testimony promptly appeared on streaming media.

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Invoking the Fifth doesn’t prove wrongdoing. But it doesn’t look good, 
either, especially related to a scandal of this proportion. Fortunately, a 
simple remedy exists. The DOJ can immunize the doctor (legally, not with a 
needle), after which the risk of incrimination will be cured, and he’ll be 
unable to receive a prescription to refuse to testify.

If so, that’s where things could get especially interesting. A witness who 
pleads the Fifth, then gets immunity and is compelled to testify, must 
deliver something meaningful. If his final testimony turns out to be bland 
or evasive, it casts doubt on his original Fifth Amendment claim— making 
it look frivolous or even deceptive.

That, in turn, opens the door to other legal and political consequences. 
In short, once immunized, O’Connor would be under real pressure to cough 
up something spicy.

Even the Post’s late, lame, and limp —albeit politically surprising— 
demand for transparency carried a whiff of quiet resignation. The editors 
didn’t call for clearing Biden’s name. They didn’t urge reassurance or 
restoration of public confidence. They called for an “unflinching 
investigation”— a phrase that implicitly presumes there’s something to 
flinch at.

WaPo’s op-ed mounted no defense of Biden; it was more like institutional 
triage. A controlled burn. Progressives have apparently given up on trying 
to rescue Biden— now, they’re just trying to move on, with some semblance 
of credibility intact.

But Democrats are boxed in. If the truth comes out, and it turns out the 
Autopen ran the White House on batteries, it’s catastrophic.

And the alternative isn’t much better. The longer they resist, after 
pushing the Cabbage out themselves, the more hay Republicans can make out 
of an evergreen scandal: the President who wasn’t really the President, 
and the party that knew it.

Either way, it’s going to leave a mark. Ouch.

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