Biden, Donald Trump and prostate cancer
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In a rambling response to a reporter’s question at a law enforcement event at the White House, Trump suggested that Biden hid his cancer diagnosis while he was in office, playing into unverified conspiracies that have come out since Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he has an aggressive form of the disease for which there’s no cure.
President Trump said Monday that he was surprised that Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s cancer diagnosis was not made public a “long time ago,” seeming to suggest without evidence that the former president’s cancer was not newly discovered and had been covered up.
President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the timeline of former President Joe Biden's recent cancer diagnosis, saying it was "dangerous" for the United States that the public was not informed sooner.
While President Trump’s response was surprisingly muted, Don Jr. and J.D. Vance are already casting blame and floating conspiracy theories.
Solemn reactions are flowing in following the announcement that former President Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Even President Donald Trump – who normally only invokes his predecessor’s name to blame him for something – posted that he was “saddened to hear about” the diagnosis.
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