Posted on Monday, May 19, 2025
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by Shane Harris
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Former President Joe Biden’s office announced Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone.
The news is tragic, as are all cancer diagnoses. Support has rightly poured in from across the political spectrum, with President Donald Trump wishing his predecessor “a fast and successful recovery.”
Still, while we can and should keep Biden in our prayers, his diagnosis raises yet more troubling questions about just how sick Biden was throughout his tenure – and how much those closest to him knew about the president’s condition.
Prostate cancers are rated on what’s known as the Gleason scale, which categorizes how aggressive the disease is from 1 to 10. Biden’s office reported that his cancer has a Gleason score of 9.
The most immediate question is whether Biden or anyone on his medical team or political staff knew about the cancer before this announcement. In a post on X that has garnered more than 2.2 million views, Dr. Steven Quay, a medical doctor, alleged that “Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.”
“Even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic,” Dr. Quay continues. “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.”
If this is indeed the case, it would be the most earth-shattering development yet in the rapidly expanding scandal of the cover-up of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline. Politics aside, allowing – or forcing – a very ill, often confused man to endure the rigors of the presidency is nothing short of elder abuse.
There are, at the very least, major questions for Biden’s medical team, which reported a clean bill of health on the president as recently as last February. If Dr. Quay is to be believed, it’s possible Biden’s cancer could have been discovered even before he announced his candidacy in 2020.
One does not need a medical degree to look with skepticism on the claim (which the corporate media is sure to repeat in the days and weeks ahead) that this is the first anyone knew of the disease. The President of the United States has access to the top doctors and medical facilities in the world. Did they really not check for signs of something as common as prostate cancer – a disease millions of older men are screened for every year?
Moreover, in light of the recent revelations about the cover-up of Biden’s mental deterioration, the public has absolutely no reason to trust the emerging narrative on this front either.
Just last week, we learned that Biden’s health was apparently so bad in 2023 that advisors privately discussed the potential need for a wheelchair if he won re-election. In another instance, Biden allegedly did not recognize movie star George Clooney at an event, despite the fact that the two men had known each other for nearly two decades. And of course, there were the scores of occasions when Biden appeared visibly confused during public events, wandering off stage or mumbling incoherently.
Through all of this, virtually every elected Democrat, with help from the media, insisted that Biden was sharper than ever and was showing no signs of slowing down. Is it really a stretch to question whether Biden’s cancer was part of this cover-up?
As many social media users were quick to note, Biden stated that “I and so many other people that I grew up with have cancer” during a speech in 2022. At the time, the White House and media dismissed the remark as just another gaffe. But that explanation deserves renewed scrutiny now.
In this case, perception may be all that matters, and it doesn’t look good for Democrats. The most generous interpretation of everything we’ve learned over the past week is that the people closest to Biden failed or refused to see that the president was seriously ill and unfit to serve, and they propped him up to run for re-election anyway to satiate their own lust for power.
The alternative is far darker: The Democrat establishment, legacy media, and even Biden’s own family conspired to re-elect a cancer-ridden 82-year-old man in a severe state of cognitive decline by hiding his actual condition from the public, and they were only forced to abandon their plot when Biden melted down on the debate stage last June. If they had gotten their way, this country would now have a president clearly unable to perform his duties just four months into his second term – and Kamala Harris would be waiting in the wings.
More details are needed to confirm who exactly knew what and when. But the American people deserve answers. While the left fearmongers about a “constitutional crisis” under Donald Trump, it increasingly appears as if the country was in the midst of an actual constitutional crisis during Biden’s presidency and was staring down the barrel of an even more severe “threat to democracy” had he stayed in the race and won re-election.
Democrats and the media may even now be cynically using this cancer diagnosis to distract from their culpability in hiding Biden’s condition. Just hours after the news went public, CNN’s David Axelrod declared that discussion of Biden’s mental faculties while in office “should be more muted and set aside for now.”
The Biden health scandal is both a tragedy and a damning indictment of the political machine that elevated him. If the cover-up is as deep as it appears, this isn’t just malpractice – it’s betrayal at the highest level.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
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