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Donald Trump Jr. accused the Dr. Jill Biden — who had a doctorate in education — of not detecting her husband's condition sooner.
What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???” Trump Jr. asked on Truth Social.
The news of Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis has raised questions about why the disease wasn't detected earlier.
Joe Biden's announcement that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer has revived questions about what health issues the former US president was dealing with while he was in the White House. In a statement on Sunday, Biden's office said the 82 year old had received the diagnosis on Friday after seeing a doctor for urinary symptoms.
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The focus on the former president comes as the party needs to look forward rather than backward to exit the political wilderness.
Kelly accused the media of protecting the former president and pressed the authors on why their reporting hadn't come out sooner.
In 2022, on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's Moonshot speech, then-President Joe Biden -- who has had basal cell carcinoma and whose son Beau died in 2015 from a recurrence of brain cancer -- reignited the Cancer Moonshot initiative.
Biden, even after he has exited political life and as he faces a serious cancer diagnosis, remains a factor in the conversation about his party's political future.