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Biden’s cancer revelation raises serious questions about transparency and trust

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22.05.2025

When former US President Joe Biden recently revealed that he has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, the announcement understandably drew a wave of public sympathy. A serious illness-particularly one that has already spread to the bones-is tragic for anyone, regardless of political affiliation. But when that person is a recent president of the United States, the story transcends private sorrow and demands public scrutiny.

Because this is not just about cancer. It’s about credibility. And it’s about a pattern of concealment that now appears to have metastasized beyond the medical chart and into the political bloodstream of a presidency built on secrecy, misdirection, and narrative manipulation.

The timing and nature of Biden’s diagnosis raise serious, even disturbing, questions. According to public statements, the cancer was discovered during a recent medical examination and is already advanced. For ordinary Americans-those navigating a fractured, costly, and often ineffective healthcare system-such a late-stage discovery would be heartbreaking but believable.

But Biden is no ordinary patient. As the former commander-in-chief and the oldest president in US history while in office, his health was theoretically under constant, elite-level surveillance. His annual physicals were supposed to be comprehensive and tightly monitored by the best physicians the federal government could provide. So how did a life-threatening cancer that had already spread escape detection until now?

The simplest answer is this: it didn’t.

It’s difficult to ignore the conspicuous timing of the announcement. Biden’s cancer revelation comes just days before the release of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, a new........

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