Trump ally says Biden is ‘not going to recover' after cancer diagnosis
Laura Loomer, an ally and sometime advisor to President Donald Trump, went on a posting spree on X after former President Joe Biden announced his cancer diagnosis.
On Sunday, Biden announced that he has 'aggressive' prostate cancer, days after a nodule was found on his prostate. The cancer had spread to his bones but was 'hormone-sensitive.' The news came two days after Biden was diagnosed.
But as Biden allies, supporters and even enemies, like Trump, took to social media to wish Biden the best and for a speedy recovery, Loomer took to X to lambast Biden and his diagnosis.
'As I reported several months ago, Biden has been terminally ill for a long time,' Loomer posted at 4:13 p.m. on Sunday. 'It's just been kept a secret... He won't be alive much longer, in my opinion. He and his family are announcing this now to make people feel bad since there's a book coming out about his mental decline and the cover-up of how sick he has been these last 4 years.'
The book Loomer referred to is 'Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disasterous Choice to Run Again' by Alex Thompson of Axios and Jake Tapper of CNN.
The book reportedly explains how Biden's advisors tried to hide the president's advanced age and even considered it 'politically untenable' for him to use a wheelchair during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Loomer continued to post, resharing an article she wrote in July 2024, repeating how she thought she was right in claiming that Biden has been terminally ill since then.
'Everyone is saying they hope Biden recovers,' she posted at 8:05 p.m. 'He's not going to recover. We need to have a conversation about how the media lied to all of us, and we had an illegitimate, terminally ill occupant of the White House for over a year.'
Seven minutes later, she claimed that Biden 'sent J6ers with cancer to prison & denied them medication,' a reference to those who raided the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
'Biden locked cancer patients up in solitary confinement,' she continued. 'He set the precedent for himself. He didn't pardon himself. Biden for Prison!'
The X posts kept coming, with Loomer calling out former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden for whether she would be charged with 'elder abuse.'
'Normal people would go to jail for this btw,' Loomer posted. 'In the real world, you know??'
She then set up a poll asking people if Biden has under 90, 60 or 30 days to live.
'Medical experts feel free to chime in,' she commented on the poll.
Biden's cancer diagnosis led to a flurry of responses, from sympathy or support to criticism or conspiracy.
In a short post on Truth Social, Trump said he and First Lady Melania Trump were both saddened by Biden's diagnosis.
'We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,' Trump said about the man he's previously called the worst president ever.
Former President Barack Obama also showed support for his fellow president and former vice president.
'Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family,' Obama said in a statement. 'Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.'
'Praying for Joe Biden, his family, and the kind of effective cancer treatment he's fought so hard for over the years,' podcast co-host Jon Favreau from 'Pod Save America' posted on X.
Former CNN and Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza said on X that 'we should all wish [Biden] well,' but added that Biden and his inner circle 'engaged in an active cover-up between 2022-2024 to keep his declining physical and mental health from the public.'
Donald Trump Jr. shared an X post where he said he 'Agreed 100%' that he wishes Biden a speedy recovery before he followed up asking if there was a cover-up.
Despite his diagnosis, Biden was criticized from the left, too. Twitch streamer Hasan Piker joked that the diagnosis was Biden's way of announcing a 2028 run for the presidency.
'The [mainstream media] is already actively laundering the reputation of a war criminal who oversaw the genocide of Palestinians, whose selfish nature allowed Trump to win a second term — Joe Biden is an awful monster," Piker wrote in a follow-up post. 'Prostate cancer doesn't change that.'
Felix Biederman, one of the co-hosts of 'Chapo Trap House,' wrote on Instagram that Biden 'may not have been particularly competent, moral, smart, or even aware of his surroundings. But he's definitely going to die soon, and you cannot take that away from the man.'
'Farewell, havidubfudhh or whatever he said to ['NBC Nightly News" host] Lester Holt that one time," Biederman wrote.
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