Despite their personal animus, President Donald Trump sent an immediate message of support to his predecessor, saying that along with First Lady Melania Trump he was “saddened” by the news. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery”, Trump wrote on his social media platform.
But questions also abound about the nature of the former President’s diagnosis, and why his cancer appears to have been identified relatively late in terms of the disease’s progress.
Time-and-again, White House officials and leading Democrats cited that assessment as proof that a growing Republican whispering campaign about Biden’s physical decline was politically motivated. They waved away any suggestion that the President should be rethinking his determination to seek four more years in the Oval Office, and govern the country until after his 86th birthday.
Biden, with former first lady Jill Biden, is reviewing treatment options, his office has said (Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
Biden’s diagnosis comes at a moment when numerous best-sellers are being published claiming that the White House engaged in a cover-up of his physical decline. Most prominent among them is Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, co-authored by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
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The prostate cancer diagnosis has put Democrats under fresh pressure to explain whether they were sufficiently probing of Biden’s demonstrable decline. Only on Sunday, Congressman Ro Khanna, a prominent Democrat from California, finally admitted that he had been wrong when he publicly backed Biden’s re-election bid and served as a surrogate for the President on the campaign trail.
Obama, in his message of sympathy, noted “nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe”. That’s a reference to “The Cancer Moonshot”, an effort Biden was leading “to mobilise a national effort to end cancer as we know it”. The idea was first green-lit during Obama’s presidency in 2016, following the death of Biden’s son Beau, the former Attorney General of Delaware who died of brain cancer the previous year.
In his most recent interviews, Biden has again pushed back against criticism about his flawed determination to seek four more years in the Oval Office. Earlier this month, in an appearance on ABC’s The View (America’s equivalent of Loose Women), the former President argued afresh that he would have beaten Trump if he had stayed in the race. He insisted that books revealing the extent of his cognitive decline were “wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that”, he insisted.
Ten days on from that interview, the country has learned of the aggressive cancer that Biden must now battle. Millions of Democrats are left wondering whether the White House cover-up of his decline runs even deeper than they suspected.
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