The Timing of Biden’s Cancer Announcement Is Suspicious

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We had a bombshell report this week that former President Joe Biden—not more than, oh, 100-plus days into the Trump administration—his office has just announced that he has prostate cancer, and we wish him well.

And it’s very sad, though, because this is not just an age-related, slow-growing prostate cancer that we hear about, that it’s somewhat easily treatable. It’s a very aggressive, malignant type. And apparently, it’s already in his bone marrow and he is going to have to take some very severe medicines and chemotherapy.

But it poses a lot of strange questions.

This announcement came right on the eve of Jake Tapper’s co-authored book, basically, that is promised to be a bombshell revelation, that there was a cover-up by the Biden team, headed by Jill Biden and Ron Klain and others in the administrative staff of the White House.

But the media was complicit too. And of course, Jake Tapper is quite embarrassed because when he’s accusing the media of being complicit, no one was more complicit in this effort to hide the true medical condition than was Jake Tapper.

So, these are the questions that we’re stuck with: Why did Joe Biden’s medical team announce right now—right on the eve of the release of this book—this shocking story that the president who just left office 100 days ago was suffering from a very serious, rare, malignant form of prostate cancer?

This doesn’t just develop immediately. The vice president, the president—he was vice president, he was president, now he’s an ex-president. They are accorded the best, most comprehensive diagnostic medical care in the world. Isn’t it true that Joe Biden would’ve known about this?

We just had a report—right before he stepped down, in the summer of 2024—an exhaustive medical report, that he was fine. But he is trying to tell us or sadly, his team is trying to tell us that, just in a matter of nine months, he developed a prostate cancer unknown to all of his doctors. Unknown—that didn’t appear on any of his diagnostic tests. And was advanced to the point that it may be fatal.

And why would he not announce that last week, two months ago, six months ago? Do we really believe that he just found out right now?

The report said that he had symptomology of it. Usually when you have prostate cancer, at least in the initial months, you don’t have symptoms. But if he had symptomology, why didn’t the doctors test and announce this very much earlier?

So, this is an enigma. And we don’t really know what’s going on. But if you were a cynic, you would say the medical announcement was designed to detract from the bombshell book that will come out describing this historic conspiracy to hide Biden’s medical condition.

There’s other peripheral subtext to this story, and that is some of the treatment for advanced prostate cancer may have side effects. And some of the side effects may be anything from vertigo to fatigue to mental confusion.

So, it’s incumbent upon his doctor and his medical team to explain to the nation were any of Joe Biden’s symptoms that were so obvious in May and June of 2024, but even earlier—and I had written, among others, way back in 2020—were any of these symptoms related either to a known prostate cancer or a known prostate cancer treatment that he was undergoing at the time? Were these the side effects?

And more importantly, if you’re going to announce this tragic news, we need to know when it was discovered because the implication is that just suddenly he had problems and then he got a sudden diagnosis and then he immediately announced it. But it doesn’t seem true with such an aggressive cancer that can’t just appear out of nowhere in a week or two. So, we have more questions than answers.

We wish Joe Biden well. We hope that he has a rapid recovery. But the mystery of his physical and cognitive health, while he was president and even before when he was nominated in that mysterious primary process of 2020, now continues into his ex-presidency.

And there’s one narrative through this entire tragedy. And that is no one, no one comes forward—not the media, not the Biden family, not the Biden handlers in the White House, and not the Biden medical team—and just simply sits down with the American people and says, “This was the true state of Joe Biden’s health. This is when we actually learned about this prostate problem that may be terminal, to be frank. And these were the people who were operating in the White House as auxiliaries and subordinates to help Joe Biden get through his term.”

Until we find out that truth, there’s going to be more mystery than answers.

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