It took mere hours for prominent Democratic voices to insist that reports of former President Joe Biden having advanced prostate cancer required everyone to stop asking questions about his time in office.
Speaking on CNN, longtime Democratic Party operative David Axelrod said that given the news of Biden’s diagnosis, discussions about the former president’s mental acuity or lack thereof “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”
Easy for him to say. On Tuesday, a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson about the cover-up surrounding Biden’s declining mental acuity is set to be released. Already, leaked excerpts and reports about the book’s contents had forced the leaders of the Democratic Party into uncomfortable interviews, and the Bidens had begun a preemptive media tour, seeking to dispel any notion that there was a grand conspiracy to hide his failing mental and physical abilities.
In that sense, the announcement of the former president’s cancer diagnosis feels all too convenient. It is certainly possible that it was only last week that Biden learned that he had metastatic prostate cancer that had reached his bones. But on its surface, that raises a host of questions about the state of his medical support staff during his time as president.
As Dr. Zeke Emanuel put it on MSNBC, there’s simply no way that Biden did not have cancer while he was president, and he likely had it for a significant portion of his term. It takes quite some time, even years, for cancer to advance to this stage. If he was only diagnosed with it last week, the White House physician should face significant scrutiny for failing to administer tests that would have discovered the cancer much sooner. The implications of incompletely assessing the president’s health are scandalous to say the least, and should prompt a reckoning.
That is one very troubling hypothesis. But given the fact that Biden’s circle of trust has a proven history of hiding the truth or simply lying about his physical state, the far more likely scenario is that the former president’s cancer diagnosis has been known for some time, and that it was hidden from the public.
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The White House physician does not reveal the state of the president’s health without the president’s approval. In fact, it is the White House communications office, staffed by the president’s appointees, that publishes any report on the president’s health by the White House physician. So if the Biden family and its closest confidants wanted to ensure that such information was never made public, they could simply limit the number of people who knew about it, even within the administration. It is not hard to envision a scenario in which the only people who knew that Biden was suffering from cancer were the president himself, his wife, his son, and his doctor.
The Biden cabal may have made this announcement with the hope that the cascade of sympathy and well-wishes would sideline discussion about the cover-up of his declining mental acuity. And some may be tempted to heed Axelrod’s plea for less scrutiny on the 46th president. But the announcement of this diagnosis is a scandal unto itself, one that is just as important as the scandalous cover-up of his mental decline. The reckoning of the Biden administration’s cover-up of their president’s health was needed before Sunday’s announcement, but it has now taken on an even greater urgency.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
