Biden’s cancer announcement raises questions that must be answered

The announcement that former President Joe Biden is now dealing with prostate cancer raises more questions about the cover-up of his health over the past five years. Empathy for his condition does not mean those questions should not be asked.

Biden’s office announced Sunday that he had been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer on Friday. The tumor is in Grade Group 5, the highest grade group of abnormality, has a Gleason score of 9, one away from the most dangerous score of 10, and has spread to his bones.

The timing of this announcement is incredibly coincidental, at best. Audio from Biden’s meeting with Special Counsel Robert Hur was released on Friday, showing how much Biden’s cognitive ability had deteriorated. That was the same audio that Biden’s Department of Justice refused to release to the public. Meanwhile, the book by liberal journalists Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper detailing how Biden’s team covered up his failing cognitive abilities will be released on Tuesday. Biden’s team announced his cancer diagnosis two days before the release date, with David Axelrod, former chief adviser to former President Barack Obama, saying that this announcement means we should all stop discussing Biden’s health cover-up.

That would be politically convenient for Axelrod, Biden, and the rest of the Democratic Party, but this topic must not be dropped that easily. If anything, Biden’s cancer announcement raises even more questions about his condition. For instance, how long have Biden and his family known about the cancer? It is exceedingly unlikely that a cancer, even an “aggressive” one, snuck up on him to this point after years of examinations and check-ups as president, particularly when Biden had already had some skin cancer scares.

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But that’s not all that needs answering. When Biden said in July 2022, “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer,” it was seen as just a typical Biden-tripping-over-his-words gaffe. But if Biden did have this cancer for years, that gaffe could just as easily have been his unintentional admission, which the White House walked back. There are also questions about the health scare he had in July 2024, which had a Las Vegas hospital on standby to treat him after he had tested positive for COVID-19. Then, there is the fact that Biden went back to his Delaware home regularly during his presidency, with no visitor log to show who was there with him. What doctors, if any, were visiting Biden there, and what treatments was he receiving?

All of the questions from these incidents need to be added to the pile of questions we already have about Biden’s deteriorating mental condition in office. Biden and his team don’t get to duck all these questions just because of this terrible news. And they don’t get any benefit of the doubt either after covering up his cognitive decline.