Former President Joe Biden’s cancer announcement prompts questions about an even deeper health cover-up. And, President Donald Trump’s budget bill clears another hurdle – but will it lead to unsustainable debt? It’s Tuesday, May 20, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Biden&#8217;s Prostate Cancer, Health Problems &amp; Possible Cover-Up</h2>
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Topline: As we learn more details of Joe Biden’s cancer prognosis, there are growing questions about whether the former president was diagnosed while in office, and if the news was kept from the American people.
The country and Capitol Hill are still reeling from the news that Biden has stage 4 cancer — news that’s come amid new evidence of the cover-up of the former president’s mental decline. Putting political differences aside, President Trump said in a statement that he and first lady Melania are saddened to hear about the diagnosis and, “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
The more we learn about the former president’s prognosis, the more concerning it appears. Prostate cancer is typically among the most treatable forms of cancer when caught early, but in Biden’s case, it’s metastasized — or spread — to his bones. Doctors say that makes it nearly impossible to treat. Every case is different, but the five-year survival rate for prostate cancer patients deemed metastatic is just <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-prognosis">28%</a>. The severity of a prostate cancer diagnosis is graded on the Gleason scale of 6 to 10, and Biden is at a Gleason Scale 9, meaning his cancer is very aggressive and likely to spread further.
The former president issued his first <a href="https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1924427587582828753">public statement</a> since his diagnosis was publicly announced on Monday, saying, “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
A stage 4 cancer diagnosis is a touchy subject, but when the patient is the former president, there’s good reason to ask questions. It’s very unusual for prostate cancer to have already metastasized by the time of diagnosis — that’s only the case for about one in twenty prostate cancer patients. Presidents have access to the best health care on earth and have regular checkups — medical experts say it would’ve been nearly impossible for a cancer this advanced to have only been noticed last week. If Biden and his team knew he had this serious, potentially fatal illness last year, and ran a re-election campaign without telling anyone, it would be among the biggest political scandals in American history. Steven Quay, former faculty member at Stanford’s Pathology Department, put it bluntly, saying, “It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”
“Most likely he had prostate cancer for a long time,” Dr. David Shusterman, a renowned urologist, told NewsNation. “Aggressive prostate cancer such as this at age 80 grows over a long period of time. I mean usually it takes 5-10 years. … There’s definitely evidence that he probably knew about this for a while.”
The timing of this announcement has also cast doubt on the veracity of the official timeline. The cancer announcement came just two days after audio recordings of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur were released, and just a day and a half before a highly anticipated book documenting his physical and cognitive decline was set to be published. Skeptics say that the timing is no coincidence and was meant to deflect questions about a potential White House cover-up regarding his mental decline while in office.
David Axelrod, a political consultant and former advisor to the Obama administration, called for restraint on criticism of Biden and his inner circle in the wake of the diagnosis, telling <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1924266629132591464">CNN</a> that “those conversations should be more muted and set aside for now.”
Donald Trump Jr. told The Daily Wire that the announcement timing is suspicious. “The fact that it breaks this week that he has it and we are told we’re not allowed to talk about anything Joe Biden right now because that would be uncouth screams to me to be an additional part of this cover-up.”
<h2>Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Big Beautiful&#8217; Budget Bill Leaves Committee Amid Intense Debt Debate</h2>
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Topline: In a rare Sunday vote, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” cleared a key procedural hurdle – despite grave concerns about national debt from within the GOP.
After President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” failed to pass through the House Budget Committee last week, several concessions were made to more conservative members of the House Republican Caucus to garner their support. The newest version of the bill features more cuts to green energy and will impose Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied recipients more quickly – under the earlier framework, those work requirements wouldn’t kick in until 2029. It was only after those promises were made that Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and three other conservatives decided to vote “present” so the bill could pass out of committee in a 17-16 party-line vote.
But even with those promises, the bill’s future is still in limbo. Roy <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-advances-out-of-committee-but-conservatives-demand-more-changes">said</a> on X that “the bill does not yet meet the moment.” Of course, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has to walk an ideological tightrope to get any legislation passed with a razor-thin Republican majority – more cuts run the risk of angering moderates over too many conservative reforms.
Context: The United States is nearly $37 trillion in debt with no realistic plan to begin to pay it off. Through April of this year, interest payments on the national debt made up <a href="https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/#:~:text=Maintaining%20the%20National%20Debt,an%20increase%20in%20interest%20expense.&amp;text=Visit%20the%20Average%20Interest%20Rates,explore%20and%20download%20this%20data.&amp;text=When%20interest%20rates%20remain%20low,government%20just%20print%20more%20money?">about</a> 16% of all federal spending, and that percentage is almost certain to increase over the next few years. Moody’s dropped the U.S. credit rating on Friday from the highest possible AAA to AA1, citing the ever-growing federal deficit to explain its decision. That sent yields on 10 and 30-year bonds up, and, over time, it could push the cost of borrowing up – that means higher rates for auto loans, home loans, and even credit cards. 
“The debt is a long term train wreck waiting to happen,” Jason Katz, managing director and senior portfolio manager at UBS, a Swiss investment bank, told Fox Business. “In the short term, however, we have this sugar high and, hopefully, we can grow our way out of this issue through a larger tax base earning more money.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Moody’s credit downgrade on Monday, painting a rosier picture of America’s economic prospects. “We have seen trillions of dollars of investments flowing into our economy since the president took office,” Leavitt said. “People around the world have confidence in the United States of America. And if you also just look at the raw economic data that we&#8217;re seeing last week when we were out of town, inflation dropped once again. Oil prices are dropping, gas prices are dropping. The president has added nearly 5 million jobs to the American economy already, so there&#8217;s a lot of optimism in this economy.”

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Morning Brief: Biden’s Cancer Bombshell & Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

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Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, predicted that he will die sometime this summer after revealing a diagnosis for prostate cancer on Monday.
Adams announced his cancer diagnosis on his “Coffee with Scott Adams” show on Rumble. Adams said that he, like former President Joe Biden, has prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” said Adams. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
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Scott Adams gives solid words of wisdom after revealing his cancer diagnosis.
&quot;I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you hard because you&#39;re hearing it for the first time.&quot;
&quot;I have to say that everybody has to die, as far as I know. And it&#39;s kind of civilized that you… <a href="https://t.co/g5eRulqKH8">pic.twitter.com/g5eRulqKH8</a>
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“Now, I realized that for some of you, this is hitting you kind of hard because you&#8217;re hearing it for the first time. Weirdly, since it&#8217;s old news to me, I&#8217;ve just sort of processed it, so it just sort of is what it is,” he added.
Adams did not spare his listeners of the effect that the cancer was having on him, describing it as “really painful – like really, really painful.” He also explained that he waited so long to inform the public of his diagnosis because “once you go public, you&#8217;re just the dying cancer guy, and I didn&#8217;t want you to have to think about it, and I didn&#8217;t want to have to think about it.”
“I am unusually mentally tough. So, while this could be much worse, you know, for some people, I suppose, I&#8217;m handling it quite well,” Adams continued. “The pain is tough – I mean really tough – but the mental part, you know, I got that under control. And I can see in the comments that some of you are having a tough time with it. But remember, nothing lasts forever. Nothing lasts forever.”
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Scott Adams gives solid words of wisdom after revealing his cancer diagnosis.
&quot;I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you hard because you&#39;re hearing it for the first time.&quot;
&quot;I have to say that everybody has to die, as far as I know. And it&#39;s kind of civilized that you… <a href="https://t.co/g5eRulqKH8">pic.twitter.com/g5eRulqKH8</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1924525515433800161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Biden’s office revealed on Sunday that he has stage four prostate cancer. The statement from his office said the cancer is an “aggressive form” that has spread to his bones. The statement said Biden received the diagnosis on Friday, sparking some skepticism among doctors who said that an advanced stage of cancer should have been caught in tests much sooner for someone who was President of the United States just several months ago.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-surprised-bidens-cancer-wasnt-announced-earlier-that-test-is-standard">said</a> he was “surprised” by the diagnosis on Monday afternoon.
“I think it’s very sad, actually. I’m surprised that the public wasn’t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that’s a long time,” said Trump.

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President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his predecessor’s cancer diagnosis and surprise that the diagnosis was so recently revealed.
Former President Joe Biden’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Sunday that Biden has an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer. The statement said that Biden received the diagnosis on Friday.
“I think it&#8217;s very sad, actually. I&#8217;m surprised that the public wasn&#8217;t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that&#8217;s a long time,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1924577284905725985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters on Monday afternoon.
Biden’s cancer is stage four, but he received a Gleason score of nine, Grade Group 5. A Gleason score is a metric for grading prostate cancer. Higher scores, such as a nine or 10, suggest a much more aggressive, faster-spreading form of cancer.
“I just had my physical. You saw that, you saw the results of that particular test. I think that test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical, good physical,” said Trump.
Trump added that his physical included &#8220;cognitive tests” and said “anybody running for president should, you know, take a cognitive test.”
Biden’s office said in its Sunday statement that the former president’s prostate cancer has “metastasis to the bone.”
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement said. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-strongest-in-the-broken-places-biden-posts-statement-on-his-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a message on social media Monday: “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
The Sunday announcement has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked</a> skepticism from some physicians who say that, given the advanced form of Biden’s cancer, it is likely the former president was diagnosed much earlier.
Dr. Chris George, the medical director of Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program, said he would be shocked if Biden received a normal PSA, a prostate cancer screening result, within the past year.
“I would assume that the former president gets a very thorough physical every year,” George told Reuters. “I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last time it was checked.”
“It’s sort of hard for me to believe that he’s had a PSA within the past year, that was normal,” he said. “It’s possible. It’s definitely possible, but that would surprise me … Usually prostate cancer doesn’t, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that’s usually a bad, bad sign. That’s an aggressive cancer for sure. But it does seem odd to me.”

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Trump ‘Surprised’ Biden’s Cancer Wasn’t Announced Earlier: ‘That Test Is Standard’

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Naomi Biden lashed out at the forthcoming book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson — which explores the extent of her grandfather&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline while in the White House — and claimed it amounted to little more than &#8220;uninspired lies.&#8221;
Naomi, whose father is Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden, responded to a post on X that claimed Tapper and Thompson were publishing the book in an effort to make themselves the &#8220;center of attention&#8221; — and that they would be better served to focus on President Donald Trump and his &#8220;daily assaults on our constitution.&#8221;
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&#8220;Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the WH, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/RPleruhgwI">https://t.co/RPleruhgwI</a>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1924490418760130704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class,&#8221; Naomi Biden wrote in response. &#8220;The ones who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do.&#8221;
&#8220;Put simply, it amounts to a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;It relies on unnamed, anonymous sources pushing a self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any responsibility for our current national nightmare. All of this at the expense of a man so completely good and honest that it is impossible for these people to ever understand the why or how of it all. There are real stories to be told and one day they will be. I suspect history will reward the truth.&#8221;
The book, set for release on May 20, will hit shelves just two days after the former president&#8217;s office announced that he was diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to his bones. That announcement led to some — even some who had been critical of Biden&#8217;s fitness and his decision to run again in 2024 — to say that perhaps he should be left alone.
David Axelrod, who served as chief campaign strategist to former President Barack Obama, said that the conversation about Biden&#8217;s cognitive fitness &#8220;should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidaxelrod</a>: Conversations about Biden’s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”<a href="https://t.co/ULDkqRS9O9">https://t.co/ULDkqRS9O9</a>
— Adam Wren (@adamwren) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1924250863373083055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Naomi Biden Trashes Book On Her Grandfather’s Cognitive Decline: ‘Uninspired Lies’

Naomi Biden Trashes Book On Her Grandfather's Cognitive Decline: 'Uninspired Lies'

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A hallmark of the late Soviet period was that no one actually knew who was running the country. Leonid Brezhnev, who supposedly ordered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, could barely speak in public. There was a concerted effort by the Politburo to hide his decline, to the extent that they could. By the final few years, it was clear that Brezhnev wasn&#8217;t actually making any decisions at all. Then, when Brezhnev finally died in 1982, he was replaced with Yuri Andropov &#8212; who, from the moment he took office, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/11/world/us-doctors-believe-andropov-had-failing-kidney-when-he-took-office.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffering</a> from severe kidney failure that often led to his complete incapacitation. Of course, that fact wasn&#8217;t disclosed to anyone at the time. But after Andropov died a little over a year into his term, the Soviets released medical files revealing he had been on dialysis practically the whole time he was in office. At that point, Andropov was replaced by someone named Konstantin Chernenko. And you can probably guess how that went. For his part, Chernenko was *also* suffering from debilitating health problems &#8212; including heart failure and emphysema &#8212; from the moment he took over. And once again, these problems were hidden, at least until he died while in office after 13 months on the job. And once again, in those 13 months, he spent a lot of his time in the hospital, unable to perform his duties. Yes, the Soviet Union cycled through three mostly unaccountable, incapacitated leaders in rapid succession, all while hiding their respective conditions from the public. You don&#8217;t need to be a student of history to know how that worked out, or what happened to the Soviet Union a few years later. Everything collapsed.
For many years, it&#8217;s gone without saying that, in this country, we don&#8217;t want to emulate the Soviet model of governance. Instead of being governed by a shadowy Politburo or an unelected bureaucracy of some kind, we&#8217;ve always understood that it&#8217;s critically important to have a competent, healthy president at the head of the federal government. That&#8217;s why members of the Cabinet, as well as members of Congress, have a constitutional duty to remove the president if, during his term, he becomes incapable of serving. It&#8217;s also why White House doctors release regular reports about the health of the president. Any effort to subvert this model of transparency &#8212; to revert to a Soviet style of governance, where no one knows who&#8217;s in charge &#8212; can only be interpreted in one way: It&#8217;s an attempt to undermine and ultimately destroy the foundations of this country, just as the Soviet Union was destroyed. And the people responsible for any kind of effort like that should be imprisoned as traitors to this country, because that&#8217;s exactly what they are.
During Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency, we&#8217;ve known for some time that his handlers were hiding some of the most dramatic evidence of his mental decline. As egregious as this cover-up was, it wasn&#8217;t entirely effective because people could still observe many signs of Joe Biden&#8217;s decline in public. What we didn&#8217;t know, until yesterday, is that Biden&#8217;s handlers were almost certainly hiding another very important piece of information, which is that Joe Biden was also suffering from terminal, stage 4 prostate cancer that&#8217;s spread to his bones &#8212; an aggressive cancer that will almost certainly kill him in a matter of years, if not sooner. In other words, it&#8217;s the kind of disease that, if Joe Biden had been elected in November, would almost certainly mean that Kamala Harris would be installed as the president of the United States. And there&#8217;s very good reason to believe that they hid Joe Biden&#8217;s diagnosis from the public in an attempt to secure exactly that outcome.
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It’s just impossible to believe that Joe Biden went from a perfectly clean bill of health &#8212; which his doctor provided in 2024 &#8212; to having stage 4 cancer in a matter of six months. Pretty much every expert in the field is unanimous on this point. For example, NewsNation just spoke to a urologist named David Shusterman. Shusterman pointed out that prostate cancer is typically a slow-growing cancer that&#8217;s easily detectable by using a PSA blood test, long before it spreads. And as a president, Joe Biden would presumably be receiving these regular tests. Watch:
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According to this urologist, it&#8217;s &#8220;pretty much unheard of&#8221; to get a diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer out of the blue in a situation like this. Even in poor areas without good healthcare, he says, it&#8217;s the kind of thing that happens when patients don&#8217;t get regular screenings for many years. And then he states that Biden may have had this cancer for a period of five to ten years &#8212; before he was in office.
And that appears to be the consensus. As Steven Quay, a prominent doctor and scientist, <a href="https://x.com/quay_dr/status/1924208125349171299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>: &#8220;Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.&#8221;
In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Chris George, who serves as the medical director of Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program, offered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this assessment</a>: “I would assume that the former president gets a very thorough physical every year. I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last time it was checked. &#8230; It’s sort of hard for me to believe that he’s had a PSA within the past year, that was normal. .. It’s possible. It’s definitely possible, but that would surprise me … Usually prostate cancer doesn’t, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that’s usually a bad, bad sign. That’s an aggressive cancer for sure. But it does seem odd to me.”
This is about as close as you&#8217;ll get to a doctor who believes that the official narrative is plausible. But even he thinks they should&#8217;ve been checking Biden&#8217;s PSA levels, and he wants to know what they were. Here&#8217;s the problem: If you go back and pull up Biden&#8217;s medical reports, you won&#8217;t see anything about his PSA level. And at the moment, we have no indication of whether they were checking his PSA levels at all. In 2019, Biden&#8217;s doctors reported that he had an enlarged prostate, but no cancer. You&#8217;d think that, perhaps, that might trigger some extra urgency for regular PSA screenings, but apparently not. Then in 2024, Biden&#8217;s physician reported that he was &#8220;a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.&#8221; But again, nothing about the PSA levels. There&#8217;s also nothing in the reports to indicate he was being treated in any way for cancer.
At the same time, CNN just interviewed a doctor who stated that, when prostate cancer is being treated, symptoms can include cognitive impairment and fatigue &#8212; which are both symptoms that Joe Biden obviously displayed during the campaign. Watch:
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The urologist we showed earlier, Dr. Shusterman, said the same thing in his interview with NewsNation. These treatments can cause cognitive impairments. So that raises some more questions. Do we know that Joe Biden was receiving any of these cancer treatments that fried his brain and made him so tired that, according to his own aides, he wasn&#8217;t able to function after dark? At the moment, no, we don&#8217;t. But we also don&#8217;t have any reason to believe Biden&#8217;s handlers when they say he wasn&#8217;t taking these treatments &#8212; especially given all of their other lies, and given his behavior while in office. And that really would be the scandal of the century. Imagine if it turned out that Joe Biden was only senile because they were treating him for terminal cancer that they wouldn&#8217;t disclose. At this point, you can&#8217;t put it past any of these people.
In any event, it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the fact that they&#8217;re floating this possibility on CNN just a couple of days before the release of Jake Tapper&#8217;s new book, which goes in-depth about Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline. And that presents yet another reason to doubt the official narrative, which is that Biden&#8217;s cancer was suddenly discovered this week. It looks a lot like they&#8217;re releasing this diagnosis in order to change the subject and garner sympathy for Biden. In fact, David Axelrod has no problem admitting that. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a very thinly veiled command. He&#8217;s essentially saying, now that we&#8217;ve told you Joe Biden is dying, please stop talking about how we covered up his mental decline as well as his cancer. And of course, CNN and the other networks will follow David Axelrod&#8217;s command.
To be clear: Saving the news of Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis for *two days before the book release* in order to change the subject and garner sympathy is diabolical. I’ve never seen anything so cynical in my life. But that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing. They&#8217;d rather you don&#8217;t pay any attention to all of the evidence that they lied and deceived the public for several years, in one of the greatest scandals of American history. Watch:
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They don&#8217;t want you asking any questions about any of this. They genuinely believe that, now that they&#8217;ve told us Joe Biden has cancer, all of this will go away.
But it won&#8217;t go away. Instead, it&#8217;s just become a much more serious crisis, in fact. At this point, there are several questions that need to be answered immediately. First: When was Joe Biden actually diagnosed with cancer? Was he treated in any way for prostate cancer at any time while he was in office? If so, who knew about these treatments and participated in the cover-up? And did they secretly treat him — or did they not treat him, because the only way to keep it hidden was to do nothing about it? Or did they want the disease to kill him quickly after his re-election so that Kamala could take over?
We are well past the point where we can take any Democrat&#8217;s word for any of this. Cable news hits on CNN aren&#8217;t sufficient. At this point, we need Congress to step up and actually do something for a change. We need full congressional investigations into this cover-up. Put people under oath. Every staffer. Jill Biden. Everyone.
Whatever the case, it’s now clear that their plan to engineer the first female president was to push through a cancer-riddled dementia patient, get him re-elected by any means necessary, let him die, and then have her take over. That&#8217;s undeniable at this point. It’s the most ruthless, cold-blooded plot we’ve ever seen in American politics. These people are demons. Like their counterparts in the final days of the Soviet Union, they obscured vital information that every American is entitled to. In fact, the Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-joe-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that &#8220;Administration staffers referred to Biden’s close-knit team of top advisers as The Politburo.&#8221; So they knew what they were doing. They knew they were acting like Soviet puppet-masters. And they&#8217;re still doing it. They&#8217;re refusing to answer the ultimate question that we simply must have an answer to, which is this: Who was actually running the country for the past four years? Whoever it was, it certainly wasn’t Joe Biden. These people are still out there. Some of them may be in the government right now. If not, they&#8217;re certainly planning to return to power soon. And before that happens, every single one of them must be identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned like the traitors to this country that they are.

Joe Biden, Jill Biden

Joe Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover-Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.

Democrats

Jill Biden

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Soviet Union

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; complained during Monday&#8217;s broadcast about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis and people who might bring politics into it — immediately after which they injected their own politics by trying to make it about President Donald Trump.
Whoopi Goldberg started the ball rolling, reacting on the show to the news that Biden — who had just appeared on the show a little over a week earlier — had been diagnosed with an advanced and &#8220;aggressive form&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.
Goldberg laughed off claims that there was any cover-up regarding Biden&#8217;s health or cognitive fitness, and then used a clip from his recent appearance — where former First Lady Jill Biden had been forced to step in and help him answer a question — as proof that he was fine.
She then complained that the new revelation regarding his cancer diagnosis would only &#8220;add fuel to the fire&#8221; for those who already believed that the Bidens had not been telling the truth about his condition. Her assessment was that it was time for everyone to simply &#8220;put politics aside.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin makes Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis about Trump: 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics. But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research&#8230;cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think… <a href="https://t.co/EfcosBBvBN">pic.twitter.com/EfcosBBvBN</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924508534714061167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin started off in agreement with Goldberg, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is a time for politics.&#8221;
She then immediately pivoted to make it political — and use it to attack President Donald Trump — adding, &#8220;But what I will say is that this administration has cut cancer funding research &#8230; cutting cancer research not only for our elderly, our men, but also our children. And I think that&#8217;s so despicable and so disdainful.&#8221;
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin brought the topic back around to Biden, saying that there was a way to have the conversation without making it solely about the politics, arguing that the latter would not be &#8220;helpful to anyone.&#8221;
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Goldberg claims &#8220;there&#8217;s no way&#8221; Biden had cancer during his presidency and hid it from the voters: 
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was… <a href="https://t.co/S0Egee6YbR">pic.twitter.com/S0Egee6YbR</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1924512513980354828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped back in to insist it was impossible for Biden to have had cancer while he was president because he would not have been able to hide the treatments from the public.
&#8220;[H]ad this been the case while he was president, there&#8217;s no way you wouldn&#8217;t have known because he would have had to have these treatments. So this is not something he was carrying around or that he was hiding,&#8221; she said.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

‘The View’ Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

'The View' Hosts Want Politics Out Of Biden's Cancer Diagnosis — Unless They Can Blame Trump

Sunny Hostin

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

Michael LaRosa — who once worked as former First Lady Jill Biden&#8217;s press secretary — went scorched earth on his ex-employer during a recent Fox News appearance, saying that President Joe Biden and his family were &#8220;allergic to transparency.&#8221;
LaRosa joined &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends: Weekend&#8221; on Sunday to discuss the recently-released audio of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s interview with then-Special Counsel Robert Hur, and he commented specifically on how difficult it was for even those working for the Bidens in the White House — like himself — to get a &#8220;straight answer&#8221; out of anyone.
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Host Rachel Campos Duffy asked LaRosa about the Hur interview audio, specifically questioning him on how things might have changed if the Bidens had been unsuccessful in keeping the audio out of the public square even after the transcripts were released.
&#8220;If you only knew how hard it was — I mean, this was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I go back to my — and I&#8217;m just talking about like just in the East Wing [the First Lady&#8217;s office]. I mean, the very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired and I couldn&#8217;t get reporters straight answers because nobody would give me straight answers.&#8221;
&#8220;It was not intuitive to them, it was not their style, to be transparent about anything,&#8221; LaRosa continued. &#8220;They took days and months to be deliberative, and I&#8217;m talking about the small things. About when the dog bites occurred, or about the wedding with the grandkids. They got caught lying to the press about press coverage because they were so scared to be transparent about anything.&#8221;
LaRosa said he eventually got to the point where he had to consider the possibility that if they were unwilling to be even the slightest bit transparent on the little things, &#8220;My God, what would happen if there were big things?&#8221;
LaRosa&#8217;s comments came just two days ahead of the release of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; — the book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson on Biden&#8217;s obvious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-book-promises-to-deliver-bombshells-but-are-they-bombshells-if-everyone-already-knew" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cognitive and physical decline</a> — and hours before Biden&#8217;s office revealed that he had an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive form</a>&#8221; of prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.

US President Joe Biden Raleigh, NC Campaign Event

Jill Biden’s Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: ‘Allergic To Transparency’

Jill Biden's Former Press Sec Goes Scorched Earth On Ex-Employer: 'Allergic To Transparency'

Fox News

Donald Trump Jr. has questions about the timing of President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer announcement.
The president&#8217;s son shared a <a href="https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1924201945931079806" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> wishing Biden a speedy recovery. But Trump Jr. isn&#8217;t shying away from pondering the timing of the revelation, which came Sunday evening — two days ahead of the publication of &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; Jake Tapper&#8217;s and Alex Thompson&#8217;s expose of &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s Decline, It&#8217;s Cover Up, And His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.&#8221;
&#8220;Based on what I’m seeing from other doctors, who understand it’s very hard to get to stage four metastatic cancer in a few weeks,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire in a text message on Monday morning. &#8220;People who die of prostate cancer, which can be incredibly aggressive, are usually those who either choose not to, or don’t have the access for these kinds of screenings, but apparently it takes 5 to 7 years to get to this point.&#8221;
Biden had access to the &#8220;finest healthcare available,&#8221; Trump Jr. noted, so it&#8217;s surprising that these health officials couldn&#8217;t detect his cancer for so long.
&#8220;The fact that it breaks this week that he has it and we are told we’re not allowed to talk about anything Joe Biden right now because that would be uncouth screams to me to be an additional part of this cover-up,&#8221; the presidents son continued, adding: &#8220;Who knew who was actually running the government.&#8221;
He pointed to messaging from Biden supporters like David Axelrod, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/18/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-00356411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN on Sunday</a> that discussions of Biden&#8217;s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”
Trump Jr. has also questioned what Biden&#8217;s wife, Jill Biden, knew about the former president&#8217;s diagnosis. The post quickly went viral, garnering over 30 thousand likes.
&#8220;What I want to know,&#8221; he tweeted, &#8220;is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???&#8221;
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What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup??? <a href="https://t.co/fSqtDmcX4p" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/fSqtDmcX4p</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1924250965965709808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Office of Joe and Jill Biden announced the former president&#8217;s diagnosis on Sunday, sharing that he &#8220;was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement continues. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
The former president had a polyp removed from his colon in 2021. At the time, White House physician Kevin O&#8217;Connor said the polyp was benign but potentially pre-cancerous lesion that did not require further action. Biden had a similar polyp removed from his colon in 2008.
“Routine surveillance is recommended for this finding,” O’Connor wrote to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki in a 2021 letter. “Typically, repeat colonoscopy in 7 to 10 years is recommended.”
The median survival rate for prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone is 21 months, <a href="https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/where-prostate-cancer-spreads-body-affects-survival-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Duke University.
The Daily Wire asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday morning whether it is interested in further scrutiny of O&#8217;Connor, given the ongoing revelations about Biden&#8217;s declining mental acuity and the coverup of that decline by both his staff and the legacy media.
“I&#8217;ll let the president speak on that,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;I spoke to the president about the former President&#8217;s health diagnosis last night, and he wanted to extend his warmest wishes to the former president and his family. But as for any further action, I&#8217;ll let the president speak on that first.”

Conservatives Gather At Annual CPAC Event

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr. Questions Timing Of Biden Cancer Announcement

Donald Trump Jr.

Vice President JD Vance on Monday raised questions about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s past fitness for office in light of the recent announcement that Biden has aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.
Vance targeted people in Biden&#8217;s inner circle, who have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Doctors+Raise+Questions+About+Timing+Of+Biden+Cancer+Diagnosis%3A+‘Unbelievable+This+Was+Missed’" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of</a> covering up the former president&#8217;s mental and physical decline from the public, and asked why the American people did not have a &#8220;better sense&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s welfare.
&#8220;We wish the best for the former president&#8217;s health, and it sounds pretty serious, but hopefully he makes the right recovery,&#8221; Vance told reporters. 
&#8220;I will say, whether the right time to have this conversation is now, or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job.&#8221;
The VP then suggested that doctors or staffers helped keep the truth from the American public.
&#8220;You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome, with the recognition that whether it was doctors, or whether there were staffers around the former president &#8212; I don&#8217;t think he was able to do a good job for the American people,&#8221; Vance said.
 &#8220;And that&#8217;s not politics, that&#8217;s not because I disagreed with him on policy, that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t think that he was in good enough health.&#8221;
&#8220;In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him,&#8221; the VP said of Biden. 
&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn&#8217;t the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with?&#8221; Vance posed. 
&#8220;This is serious stuff. This is the guy who carries around the nuclear football for the world&#8217;s largest nuclear arsenal,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;This is not child&#8217;s play. We can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you&#8217;re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn&#8217;t do the job.&#8221; 
Biden&#8217;s cancer announcement comes on the heels of major buzz over the forthcoming book “Original Sin,&#8221; which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the physical and cognitive decline of Biden while in the White House.
For example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legacy-media-outlets-say-biden-book-is-full-of-bombshells-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the book details</a> how some staffers thought Biden might need a wheelchair, and how the former president was sometimes unable to recognize friends and staffers. Meanwhile, the White House routinely stated how sharp Biden was and suggested anyone who criticized him was engaging in misinformation.
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JD Vance takes shots at Biden and the &#8220;people around him.&#8221;
“This is not child&#8217;s play. We can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn’t be doing the job.” <a href="https://t.co/QW1Jsui9iq">pic.twitter.com/QW1Jsui9iq</a>
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1924464823191957516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Doctors+Raise+Questions+About+Timing+Of+Biden+Cancer+Diagnosis%3A+‘Unbelievable+This+Was+Missed’" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doctors Raise Questions About Timing Of Biden Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Unbelievable This Was Missed’</a>

JD Vance

JD Vance Raises Questions After Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis: ‘This Is Not Child’s Play’

On Monday, the day after it had been revealed that he is suffering from stage four prostate cancer that had spread to his bones, former President Joe Biden released a public statement on social media.
Posting a picture of himself smiling with his wife Jill holding their cat, Biden wrote, “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
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Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support. <a href="https://t.co/oSS1vGIiwU">pic.twitter.com/oSS1vGIiwU</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1924427587582828753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, Biden’s office released a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/biden-prostate-cancer.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, saying:
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Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone. While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. &#8230; The president and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.
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The revelation that Biden’s cancer had metastasized to such a serious phase but had not been previously reported catalyzed controversy on Sunday.
“Sad and unfortunate and I wish the former President the best in his treatment of this cancer,” former White House physician and current Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX), wrote on X. “Care at the White House should be second to none. Unbelievable this was missed, but the truth is, his physician was more concerned about assisting with the political cover up than providing world class medical care.”
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Sad and unfortunate and I wish the former President the best in his treatment of this cancer. Care at the White House should be second to none. Unbelievable this was missed, but the truth is, his physician was more concerned about assisting with the political cover up than…
&mdash; Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1924215049406578936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Steven Quay, a former faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Pathology Department, <a href="https://x.com/quay_dr/status/1924208125349171299">wrote</a> on X, “For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”
“It is not credible to imagine that a Senator, Vice President, and President could not have undergone routine blood tests that included PSA,” Quay continued.  “I repeat my belief that it would be malpractice to not test PSA in a male U.S. President. &#8230; Yes, there are less than 5% of patients who can present with metastatic disease without primary indications via the PSA but … Come on, Man!!”
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Health care policies related to screening guidelines are designed for populations, often millions of people, with respect to a particular screening test. They take into account healthcare cost, downstream practises, etc. It is not credible to imagine that a Senator, Vice… <a href="https://t.co/dleeJqocsn">https://t.co/dleeJqocsn</a>
&mdash; Dr Steven Quay (@quay_dr) <a href="https://twitter.com/quay_dr/status/1924259379089641786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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If Biden had been forced to leave office because of his cancer, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was suspected of not being a favorite of Biden’s wife, Jill, would have succeeded him.
After the June 2019 Democratic presidential candidate debate, when then-Senator Kamala Harris attacked Joe Biden over his position on desegregation insinuating that he was a racist, Jill Biden, speaking to close supporters, reportedly furiously attacked Harris, snapping, “With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis? Go f*** yourself.”
The story of Jill Biden’s alleged irate response to Harris’s insinuation came from Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer for The Atlantic, as reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/19/edward-isaac-dovere-2020-campaign-book-excerpt-joe-biden-kamala-harris-489347?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000016a-25a3-d780-abea-b7ff639f0000&amp;nlid=630318" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
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Former President Biden Speaks at ACRD Conference in Chicago

‘We Are Strongest In The Broken Places’: Biden Posts Statement On His Cancer

With just days to go before the release of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; — a book exploring former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive decline from Jake Tapper (CNN) and Alex Thompson (Axios) — everyone on the Sunday political shows was talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they knew it.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
If one were to simply watch those interviews cold, not having lived through four years of a Biden presidency or seen dozens of speeches and interviews even from midway through his single term, one might be inclined to believe the pundits and elected Democrats when they insisted that Biden was absolutely fine at least until his disaster of a televised debate with President Donald Trump — and, according to at least one, he might even still be fine.
But Democrats and pundits said those things to an audience made up of Americans who did watch Biden as he repeatedly got lost on stage, tripped up the stairs of Air Force One, alternately shouted and whispered at awkward times, and lost his train of thought on a regular basis. Still, they committed to the narrative — Biden was definitely at his best until maybe the debate, and there was no reason for anyone to suggest otherwise or believe that anyone was covering up Biden&#8217;s condition.
On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Rep. Ro Khanna insisted that there was no cover-up, but also said that the people who had been closest to President Biden during the last year or so of his presidency owed the American people &#8220;an explanation — but he did not clarify why they needed to explain if they were not covering anything up.
&#8220;It’s painfully obvious President Biden should not have run,&#8221; Khanna said.
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“It’s painfully obvious President Biden should not have run.”
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said there wasn&#8217;t a cover-up of former Pres. Biden mental fitness ahead of the 2024 election, but added those close to Biden and his advisers “owe an explanation.” <a href="https://t.co/MTbOVJxR88">https://t.co/MTbOVJxR88</a> <a href="https://t.co/9UJQqpL4gF">pic.twitter.com/9UJQqpL4gF</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924122551883645008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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During a panel discussion later on in the broadcast, former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile claimed that since she had lost a step or two with age, it was totally fine for the same thing to have happened to Biden.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all — I don&#8217;t have the pep in my step that I used to have,&#8221; she said.
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On questions of former Pres. Biden’s mental fitness ahead of the 2024 election, former DNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> says, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all — I don&#8217;t have the pep in my step that I used to have.”<a href="https://t.co/KJmZwLyqkW">https://t.co/KJmZwLyqkW</a> <a href="https://t.co/yPGHteC3gZ">pic.twitter.com/yPGHteC3gZ</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924134592497271104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pushed back, noting that conservatives had been repeatedly mocked and gaslighted — not to mention shut down by legacy media hosts — when they stated the obvious about the president&#8217;s declining faculties.
&#8220;People were put to shame — me and others out there — that talked about Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity &#8230; The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the White House,&#8221; he said.
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Former RNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reince</a> Priebus: &#8220;People were put to shame — me and others out there — that talked about Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity &#8230; The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the White House.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mEq24OQYpx">https://t.co/mEq24OQYpx</a> <a href="https://t.co/glQtYP9iwY">pic.twitter.com/glQtYP9iwY</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924136867680735338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) took time out from defending criminal illegal alien gang members to address the recently released audio from Biden&#8217;s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur — which he said shed light on a problem that no one had been aware of at the time.
&#8220;Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again, we would do things differently,&#8221; Van Hollen said. &#8220;I think we can acknowledge that this was a — people overlooked a serious problem or were just not aware.&#8221;
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&#8220;Hindsight is 20/20,&#8221; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says of the audio tapes that have been released of then-President Biden&#8217;s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, highlighting Biden&#8217;s memory lapses at the time.
&#8220;Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again,… <a href="https://t.co/iITJ2PC9aH">pic.twitter.com/iITJ2PC9aH</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1924134615121375425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took a similar approach on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; saying that Democrats might have encouraged Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race sooner if only they had known. Murphy also said that Democrats had been wrong to brush off voters&#8217; concerns about Biden&#8217;s acuity during the 2024 election cycle.
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In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says that former President Biden should have exited the 2024 race earlier as newly released audio tapes renew concerns over Biden&#8217;s health and fitness while in office. <a href="https://t.co/KU1cqLKcHR">https://t.co/KU1cqLKcHR</a> <a href="https://t.co/mTJHsYG5rI">pic.twitter.com/mTJHsYG5rI</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1924102792177725590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn&#8217;t even sure Biden would be incapable of serving a second term in the White House.
&#8220;Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that, but I don&#8217;t know that,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesClyburn</a> on whether he still believes President Biden could have served another term: &#8220;Yes, I thought that back then. I still think that, but I don&#8217;t know that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/hfRtH5REyl">pic.twitter.com/hfRtH5REyl</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924123561721000190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As to Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to play defense. &#8220;Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which one was true,&#8221; he claimed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesClyburn</a> reflects on Biden’s disastrous 2024 debate performance: “Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which one was true.” <a href="https://t.co/Sso7mSltX0">pic.twitter.com/Sso7mSltX0</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924100037597884572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Van Jones and David Axelrod were less magnanimous to Biden, his White House, and the party that enabled him.
&#8220;There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this Republic,&#8221; Jones said.
&#8220;I blame the people around him,&#8221; Axelrod added. &#8220;Real loyalty demanded that they say, &#8216;Mr. President, it&#8217;s just not there and it&#8217;s not in your interest&#8217; [to run again].&#8221;
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Longtime Democratic strategists react to new reporting that top Biden aides hid signs of decline from the public.<a href="https://twitter.com/VanJones68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanJones68</a>: &#8220;There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this Republic.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidaxelrod</a>: “I blame the people around him&#8230; real loyalty… <a href="https://t.co/Obz2wpk3Jm">pic.twitter.com/Obz2wpk3Jm</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924101934442569760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former President Joe Biden is suffering from an “aggressive” form of cancer. Hamas says it is ready to resume talks after massive strikes by Israel, and, as the UK struggles with the effects of mass migration, Britain’s liberal prime minister makes a major reversal.
It’s Monday, May 19, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>Biden Reveals Cancer Diagnosis Amid Bombshell Reports Of Cognitive Decline</h2>
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Topline: On Sunday, former President Joe Biden’s staff announced that the 82-year-old had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer on the heels of renewed public interest in his physical and mental decline.
A Biden spokesman revealed that an exam last month found a small nodule on his prostate, and further examination revealed it to be an “aggressive” form of cancer and that it has spread to his bones. Prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bones has a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-spread-to-bones#outlook">~33%</a> 5-year survival rate, and the <a href="https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/where-prostate-cancer-spreads-body-affects-survival-time">median life expectancy</a> after diagnosis is 21 months. The one silver lining is that it appears to be “hormone-sensitive,” making it more treatable.
After former President Biden dropped out of the race last summer, Democrat leaders made a concerted effort to shift their focus away from the president and toward Kamala Harris and other prominent, younger lawmakers. But a new book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson offers explosive details of “President Biden’s decline, its cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again.” The revelations have set Washington ablaze and brought the former president’s decline back into the national conversation.
Remember: The White House spent four years condemning anyone who questioned his cognitive fitness, labeling videos of his mental missteps “cheap fakes” and essentially gaslighting those who said he seemed off. 
According to numerous administration and campaign officials, both on and off the record, Biden’s physical deterioration was so severe that some of his closest advisers believed he would need to use a wheelchair if re-elected. While Biden’s staff routinely assured the American people that behind closed doors, he was running laps around his staff, numerous officials now say that due to his old age, he was limited to a six-hour work window, typically from 10 am to 4 pm, with time often scheduled for naps.
As this new evidence has come to light, Democratic leaders have come out on the record saying Biden never should have run for re-election and that his mental state was clearly compromised. But it’s important to note how different that message is from what we heard from them when he was actually in power:
<blockquote>Former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas: The most difficult part about a meeting with Joe Biden is preparing for it. Because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland: “I have watched him expertly guide meetings of staff and cabinet members. I could not have more confidence in the president.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY): “It&#8217;s as good as it&#8217;s been over the years I&#8217;ve been, he&#8217;s fine. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D): “He is on the ball. The man knows more than most of us have forgotten.”</blockquote>
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<h2>Israel Launches New Offensive; Hamas Returns To Diplomatic Talks</h2>
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Topline:  Israel forces Hamas back to the bargaining table after a new ground offensive.
In a new operation, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408548">called</a> Operation Gideon’s Chariots, Israeli troops moved into portions of northern and southern Gaza while the air force launched hundreds of strikes against terrorists. Israel’s objectives have been the same since the war began: to free the hostages and destroy Hamas. Over the weekend, Israel made measurable progress toward both of those goals. According to a Hamas spokesman, the terror group decided to return to the negotiating table without preconditions. 
An Israeli official <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408546">told</a> Israel’s I24 News that talks in Qatar are “intense” but still short of a “breakthrough.” While officials are more optimistic than last week, it’s still unclear if a deal can be reached.” One possible agreement, proposed by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, would secure the release of 10 hostages.  Israeli officials believe 23 of the October 7 hostages that remain in Hamas’ custody are still alive, although there are concerns that three of them are in critical condition. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said he is willing to end the war altogether, but only if Hamas surrenders and Gaza is disarmed. The Israeli official said the delegation in Qatar “won&#8217;t be there forever. If there won&#8217;t be progress shortly, we will progress in the fighting.”
Over the weekend, Israeli planes carried out at least 670 strikes against Hamas terror targets. Dozens of terrorists are <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408532">reportedly</a> dead, and one of those might have been Hamas’ head of military operations, Mohammed Sinwar – the brother of Yahya Sinwar, who led Hamas until Israeli forces killed him in October.
New documents have also shed light on what inspired the October 7 terror attack on Israel that began this war. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-wanted-to-torpedo-israel-saudi-deal-with-oct-7-attacks-documents-reveal-a70ec560">The Wall Street Journal</a> got a peek at the minutes of an October 2, 2023, meeting of Hamas’s political leadership, which show that this attack that had been years in the making, was launched less than a week later to disrupt Israeli-Saudi relations. Israel and Saudi Arabia were close to normalizing relations under the Abraham Accords from President Donald Trump’s first term. According to the minutes, Yahya Sinwar was concerned that normalizing relations between the Saudis and Israelis would “open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path.” So – with Iran’s approval – Hamas launched the attack to “bring about … a strategic shift in the paths and balances of the region with regard to the Palestinian cause.”
In his second term, President Trump has continued to try to bring Israel and Saudi Arabia together. In his recent visit to the Middle East, the president said, “It&#8217;s my fervent hope, wish, and even my dream that Saudi Arabia, a place I have such respect for… will soon be joining the Abraham Accords.”
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<h2>UK&#8217;s Left-Wing Prime Minister Makes An About-Face On Immigration</h2>
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Topline: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made a landmark speech in which he attacked mass migration and said his government would significantly reduce it.
At a press conference unveiling his government’s new policy, Prime Minister Starmer said that he wanted to “take back control of our borders,” calling the previous era of mass immigration “squalid.” He blamed the previous Conservative government for the significant increase in immigration since 2021, which saw net migration quadruple. In 2023, migration was more than 1 million, which is nearly the same size as Birmingham, the second-largest city in the country. Starner called this a “one-nation experiment in open borders,” warning that Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers.” 
“When you have an immigration system that seems designed to permit abuse, bring in lower paid workers, sold by politicians on a false premise, then you are not championing growth or justice!” Starmer said. “You&#8217;re actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart.”
Although he praised diversity and described migration as part of “Britain’s story,” Starmer said that immigrants should commit to integrating, including learning English. He also extended the period required to apply for permanent settlement from five years to 10.
“That will reassure a lot of people who were worried that the millions of low-skilled immigrants who have come here in the last few years would soon be eligible for settlement, at which point they could fully access the welfare state,” Guy Dampier of the Prosperity Institute told The Daily Wire. “Immigration policy in Britain has been dominated for the last few decades by the idea that immigration was good for the economy and that it was only illegal immigration which was the problem. So this is a major rhetorical shift.”
The ideological pivot provoked outrage within the Labour Party’s left-wing base – many party activists resigned, and some sitting members of parliament condemned their party leader’s speech. However, <a href="https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/">polling</a> indicates that public support for reducing immigration is quite high.
“In a lot of ways the Prime Minister is reflecting the mood of the country, rather than driving it,” Dampier told The Daily Wire. “And which the anti-immigration Reform party (led by Nigel Farage) did very well in. So some people think this is an attempt to win back voters and stem the collapse in popularity. For people on the right, this was something of a vindication. The Prime Minister said things they have argued for years.”

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