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Jill Biden's 'Work Husband' Pleads the Fifth in Probe of Former President's Mental Fitness
2025-07-17
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Anthony Bernal refused to answer when asked ‘Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?’

Bernal’s refusal to testify solidifies a pattern in the GOP probe: The former president’s White House doctor, Kevin O’Connor, also invoked his Fifth Amendment right as well as physician-patient privilege during a closed-door July 9 interview.

O’Connor gave Biden clean bills of health throughout his term, calling him "a healthy, vigorous, 78-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the president" in November 2021. Four months before Biden’s debate with Trump, O’Connor declared the then-president "fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency," even though he had not administered "a cognitive test because he 'did not believe the science required him to,'" according to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book Original Sin.

Bernal and O’Connor’s refusal to testify follows numerous reports that have shed light on Biden’s mental and physical decline.



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