Trump wants answers on Biden's cancer diagnosis
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President Donald Trump hinted that he wanted to see President Joe Biden 's medical doctor be investigated after the former president's shock cancer diagnosis. In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump was asked to react to Biden's diagnosis and was asked if he planned to call his predecessor. Trump responded by calling the news 'very sad' but then segued and suggested that there might have been a cover-up, as others on the political right have floated.
'I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that's a long time,' Trump said. After boasting about acing his own physical - and noting that he had taken a cognitive test - he suggested something was awry with Biden's White House doctor. 'I think that if you look, it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There was nothing wrong with him,' Trump said. 'Maybe it was the same doctor, and somebody is not telling the facts.'
He said that while he felt 'badly' about it, 'I think people should try and find out what happened,' the president added. On Sunday, Biden's post-presidential office sent out a statement saying that the former president had been diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, which had metastasized to his bones. Prostate cancers are graded on aggressiveness by using what's called the Gleason score.
In the 82-year-old ex-commander-in-chief's case, his Gleason score is a 9 - making it one of the most aggressive. 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' Biden's office said. 'The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.' The former president received an outpouring of support, including from Trump and the first lady.
'Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis,' Trump posted to Truth Social. 'We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.' However Donald Trump Jr. and other members of the online MAGAverse started stirring the pot over whether a cover-up was afoot. 'What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another cover-up???' Trump Jr. mused.
Dr. Biden, the former first lady, is not a medical doctor. She has a Ph.D in education. After Biden bombed his late June debate against Trump, questions about his fitness for office got even louder. Then White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre initially bungled a response when asked why a Parkinson's disease expert had visited the White House multiple times.
Additionally, Biden's White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, never took questions from the press, unlike Trump's original White House physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, now a MAGA-aligned Republican representing Texas in Congress. Trump's second White House doctor, Dr. Sean Conley, addressed the press when Trump contracted COVID-19 just weeks before the 2020 election. Conley was criticized, however, for painting a much-too-rosy picture of Trump's battle with the disease, which could have turned deadly.
Author Chris Whipple, who wrote Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, said on CNN last month that 'this was different from a cover-up.' 'It wasn't a Watergate-style cover-up. It wasn't a grand conspiracy as Karl Rove has described it,' Whipple said. 'The closest advisers to Biden believed, despite all the evidence, that Joe Biden was capable of running for reelection, of winning and of serving another four years,' Whipple said. 'Now it was really delusional.'
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