Joe Biden, Cancer and White House
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While House Republicans and Trump appear to be aligned in their desire to investigate Biden’s fitness to serve, there is some frustration brewing among congressional committees about how quickly the Trump administration is responding to some of their requests, according to multiple GOP congressional sources familiar with the matter.
The Washington Post urged legal mechanisms to prevent future cover-ups after a book claimed former President Biden's cognitive issues were concealed by his inner circle for years.
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Creators Syndicate on MSNJoe Biden's Cancer Is Not a Shield From BlameThis weekend, it was announced that former President Joe Biden has just been diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone. Let's begin with what should be obvious: We should all be hoping for Biden's swift and full recovery,
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AlterNet on MSNFolks worried about a Biden 'cover-up' need to focus on our frighteningly dangerous reality | OpinionI’m truly sorry that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. But the Biden news that’s been dominating headlines, exciting columnists, lighting up social media, and grinding up endless podcast hours has been something else: a so-called “cover-up” of the extent of Biden’s declining cognition before he resigned.
Those who have read “Original Sin” say that it does not contain any bombshells. What it offers is a detailed account of the systematic effort by family and advisors to conceal the truth from the American people, and calls out the cowardly Democratic leaders who knew Biden was not up to a second term but were afraid to cross him.
Despite accusations that former President Joe Biden’s team used the cancer announcement as a distraction, a growing number of Democrats and Republicans are questioning whether Biden was
Yet Republicans are eagerly turning the issue of Biden’s pardons into a political football, even if they lack the authority to do anything about them. James Comer, GOP chair of the House Oversight Committee, has vowed that he will launch an investigation while Ed Martin, Trump’s new pardons attorney, has promised the same.
Tapper‘s book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” co-authored with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, will be available to purchase on May 20. Just one day ahead of its release, former President Joe Biden’s granddaughter tore into what she called a “silly book.”
The criticism, and self-criticism, comes as a new book — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson — blames Democrats’ defeat in large part on Biden’s aides who, it asserts, hid the extent of his decline.
Ex-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly blasted former President Biden, calling him a “zombie” while in office in the wake of revelations about his mental decline during the final few