Joe Biden was both senile and cancer-ridden during the last years of his presidency. That much is absolutely clear. According to “Original Sin,” the new book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Biden was exhibiting signs of senility for years; his staff worked to cover it up, and a compliant media did its least to investigate. This week, we found out that Biden also has stage four prostate cancer, which has already metastasized to his bones. There is virtually no way that nobody knew about the cancer until this week; prostate cancer is a slow-moving cancer that is easily detected by routine PSA tests.
This is, to put it mildly, one of the biggest scandals in American history.
The scandal raises a series of serious questions.
The first is obvious: Who the hell was running the White House while Joe Biden’s brain wasn’t working? The obvious suspects include Dr. Jill Biden, who must have known about Biden’s senility and yet continued to press him to run for president; Mike Donilon, former Biden adviser; Jeffrey Zients, Biden’s chief of staff; and even Hunter Biden, President Biden’s closest confidante. In fact, according to “Original Sin,” the answer appears to be the convicted felon and former crack addict: Tapper explained this week, “He was almost like a chief of staff…It’s bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy, and prone to horrible decisions.” Well, yes.
The second question is similarly obvious: How long did the Biden family know about Biden’s infirmity? Where the hell was Dr. Jill? Where was Hunter? Or were they all so focused on grifting off the family name that they couldn’t be bothered to truly care for their ailing patriarch? That question turns extraordinarily dark when we consider the question of Biden’s cancer. Was Biden deprived of necessary treatment? Did he go undiagnosed because the family didn’t want to know the answer? We do know that the Biden family has covered up cancer before: when Beau Biden, then the attorney general of Delaware, was suffering from brain cancer, the family worked to lie about it.
Then there’s a third question: Where the hell was the legacy media while all of this was happening? The job of the media is to investigate signs and symptoms of corruption or misconduct. It was perfectly obvious to everyone with a prefrontal cortex and working retinas that Joe Biden was in dire mental condition by 2022. Why weren’t the media demanding answers? Were they so committed to the defeat of Donald Trump and the Republicans that they decided to simply look the other way … until precisely the moment Biden’s condition became undeniable, the first debate with Donald Trump?
Finally, there’s a fourth question: Who can be trusted at this point? It’s easy to point to the Democrats’ cover-up of Biden’s ailments as proof of their unique dishonesty. But the reality is less comforting: self-interest and malfeasance are human universals – and if the American public are to know the truth about any of their elected officials, they require systems that demand answers. This means, at the very least, that Congress ought to immediately pass a bill demanding yearly complete and transparent physical and mental tests on the president. Our government was not built on trust; it was built on checks and balances. And the fact that the president of the United States was not the president for years, in the face of the blaring light of public attention, shows that our checks and balances have utterly failed. The greatest sign of an imperial presidency is that the president is so unanswerable that he can be nearly clinically dead in public without serious repercussion.
Enough is enough. Americans’ trust has been abused over and over and over again over the course of the last decade. And it’s not enough simply to blame those who abused that trust. It’s time to rebuild systems that verify. And that requires actual forethought, honesty and realism about the flaws in human nature — and the willingness of the politically motivated to justify just about anything in the name of desired ends.
Ben Shapiro’s new collection, “Facts and Furious: The Facts About America and Why They Make Leftists Furious,” is available now. Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author.
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There are two separate questions in play here regarding the use of the PSA test as an early warning to detect prostate cancer for men over 70;
One, what should men who are 70 or older do and; Two, what should a man who is 70 or older And is either running for president or is currently president do ?
The first question is more difficult to answer given the historic unreliability of the PSA test and the typical slow growth of prostate cancer. A man should discuss the pros and cons with his doctor and to assist his understanding, should order a FREE Patient Guide from the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Given that you now can request an MRI to confirm a high PSA result and not have to jump directly to a biopsy is one argument in favor of continuing PSA testing past age 70 but each patient has to make his own decision.
The second question has an easy answer. If you are 70 or over and running for president or currently president, you owe it to the country as well as to yourself to continue PSA testing past your 70th birthday.
The serious repercussions of this should never be left as dead, gone, or buried.
NO!
The Democrat party propped up a man it knew was mentally and physically unfit, and their media lapdogs actively took part in the cover-up.
Of course the same applies as they manipulate their leftist narrative over economic news: They always use Marxists as “expert economists.”
The deliberate, calculated deception of the American people is carried out by the left in everything.
They justify doing anything outrageous. The Democrat Party has betrayed the public trust in everything they manufacture and manipulate.
The vast majority of the media has been complicit with the left because they are them.
They all pushed a sick, elderly man who was physically and mentally declining into the most consequential position in the world, while blatantly lying to the American people.
Anything goes for the left’s control of political power.
Thereby the gatekeeper of truth has been compromised. The United States of America deserves better than a lie powered shadow 4th government in media.
Just like Biden, the Democrat party’s moral decline has reached stage four; it’s deep in the bones of every institution that the left perverts.
Since it is clear Joe Biden was incompetent and someone else was actually running the country. Doesn’t that mean all those “pardons” that Joe Biden issued are invalid? And that all those who were pardoned can now be charged and prosecuted?
The public wants to know WHO specifically was in control of Biden decisions?
While the public is entitled to the truth and it is about time someone spoke about Biden’s declining condition, where was Jake Tapper when Biden was in office? Where was the media in their quest for the “truth?” The legacy media is as much to blame as the democrats and it will take a lot of time for the public to trust the media again.
I knew he was ill before the election and that election wasn’t an election, It was a staight up 3rd world coup.
i love this article and the very logic of, stop blaming the culprits, and now we need to blame the departments that are in charge of the remedy, being sure this never happens again. I am old enough to remember Joe Biden’s strong stand against border invasions and crime. So I know he did not bring our country to the brink, without help from his handlers. Now I am looking at the Congress and the DOJ, to find the crooks and prosecute them, it was not just two, there were a bevvy of characters that had their own ends, which was paid for by we the people. I really want to see a “Perp Walk”.
If this scandal is allowed to go unpunished, it will keep happening.
So who’s going to jail for all the fraudulent actions taken and auto pen signatures used while Joe was not able to even tie his own shoes.
Yea, no one will go to jail for the grandest scheme to defraud and destroy a country since the Nazi regime. Who was making decisions and authorizing things, essential to this country, that they weren’t elected or authorized in any constitutional way to do. Our debt went up almost 10 Trillion dollars in just 4 years. This is mind boggling fraud and the criminals are laughing at those of us in fly over country. I’d like to change that laugh to a cry.
Just one more in a list of demonicrat horrors which goes back to fighting for slavery, fighing to keep women and Blacks from voting, battling against the Civil Rights Act. Possibly the greatest mystery is: why do so many continute to support the demonicrat party.?
Another person that could have been running the country and using Autopen to sign laws was Obama.
Oh common man , we all know his incapacity qualified him for the post, that was the deciding factor, Hillary would never do, too independent and forceful, no one would tell her what to do how to do it or with whom. He was a perfect candidate, media pretending all was well in the land of Oz
Gee, Is treason that hard to prove to get a conviction? All those pardons should become null and void given bidens mental state and every action of his administration
First point Biden himself probably ordered to keep his cognitive decline a secret. His ego wouldn’t allow anything else. He was a failing senator that attached himself to others coattails especially if they were popular. He was against equal rights school integration. Then he became president he embraced the trans like he invented it.
Second he has been a liar and being VP under Obama he got a lesson on how to lie effectively. Three he wanted to destroy the country and make it a socialist communist country with the democrats in charge for eternity. Fourth he hated Trump after his first term to the point he wanted to eliminate him. Even after Trump was shot at he kept saying someone should pull a bullseye on Trump. Why didn’t the MSM investigate or say anything? Hell, the owners of the newspapers and tv and radio stations were owned by billionaires who donated to his campaign. They knew they would get things passed they wanted passed. If they would have been able to get it from Trump wouldn’t they have supported him like they did the dems? Trump can’t be bought. Just like Elon can’t be bought. Only the dems made it so hard for him to oversee the DOGE dept. he had to resign. Money is power and the democrats with Bernie’s oligarchs are running this country and Biden wanted also a piece of the pot these billionaires put together to buy the democrat party. But first they had to buy a president. And they did. And with the MSM support, the scare of the spamdemic they succeeded. It took 4 years but many voters were becoming aware of what they were up to and put a common sense, capable man in the White House. The past 4 years need to be investigated because we have only see the tip of the iceberg of what went on. The full truth is 10 times worse.
How could they possibly admit they were wrong and, ultimately, deceiving the American people? 1. They are Democrats. 2. They are liars. 3. They are statists. 4. They do not care about the American people, contrary to the philosophy of President Trump, who only cares for the people. 5. They only were in it for their self-enrichment, no matter what it took.
Biden has been corrupt and dishonest his entire career, no reason to believe he isn’t at the core of the problem.
As for prostate cancer, I’m 77 just diagnosed positive fortunately not as serious as Bidens. The entire Biden story makes no sense (unless somehow little old me in small town USA got exponentionally better medical treatment than Biden).As for the PSA controversey, they stick a needle in your arm, take some, blood and analyze it. If PSA has changed further investigation and test are recommended. The tests are an inconvenience at most (including biopsy) and the possability of false positive or negative are significant but the alternative is life threatening.
This entire story stinks like everything else Biden.
That last question is the big one for me!! I don’t feel like I can trust anyone who is a Democrat especially the politicians, they lie so often on extremely sensitive, important stuff that the small stuff becomes obvious! I don’t trust any of the media, none of them!! They all have an agenda or they work for someone with an agenda who tells them what they can or cannot say!! I have lost my trust in the medical community after Fauci got done with it!!!! I had los faith and trust in our government until this current administration and I have a little hope, or I will as soon as all of these Democrat, activist judges get put in their place and Trump is allowed to do what we asked him to do!! His mandate was to undo Democrats BS and fix the government so it works and we aren’t $37 trillion in debt!!! Why are Democrats so objecting to that??
Once again, is AMAC showing these comments to Congress? Thank you, AMAC for your Action Group. May they read these and other comments and share…somewhere, before sanity implodes.
The republican party has 2 Congressional traitors who voted against President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which barely passed the House. There are even more republican Senate traitors that will most likely make it even harder to get this bill passed, yet you continue to beat a dead horse and continue to write about what we’ve always known about and now is Irrelevant compared to how our party’s rhinos continue to make President Trump’s job harder than it has to be. We already know about Biden’s health issues and the fact that they have been lying about his condition, as well as everything else they have lied about. Put the past to rest and start writing about how the Rhino republicans continue their quest to destroy President Trump. Put everything these rhino traitors do in the public eye. Every bill they vote against, what they say about Trump during their interviews on cnn, msnbc, and all the Democrats’ propaganda news agencies. The democrats have been exposed a long time ago, and now that it’s all been made official, I believe that now it’s time to move on and target our own party’s traitors who are helping those democrats.
Whoever was using the ‘auto pen’ to sign EOs and making the decisions needs to be investigated and charged. To me whoever it was, they were reporting to and getting their orders from should also be charged, no matter who it was.
These 4 questions can be answered by one word: GREED! The Biden family propped up Joe so they could still ride the cash cow gravy train. Hunter, “Dr” Jill and assorted members of the Biden mafia were raking in TONS of money. Imagine a convicted felon, drug user and womanizer running the Oval Office. And long before Joe became senile, he was engaging in questionable, sleazy business deals across the globe, all on the public’s dime. Hunter made sure the “Big Guy” got his 10%. A little known fact is that Joe was having an affair with Jill who was still married to one of Joe’s longtime friends. The whole Biden family makes me sick. Bill O’Reilly’s book, Confronting the Presidents calls Joe Biden the second worst President in our nation’s history. I wonder why. I don’t want to wish a sick man ill will, but it is poetic justice about the recent revelations. And the lamestream media went along with the coverup. Back in the mid sixties, my Civics teacher taught us to “Never believe everything you read in the newspaper.” And that today translates to the lamestream media.
While watching the news on TV with my 12 year old grandson Biden was on the screen. It was one of the times when President Biden was confused and stood motionless. while everyone else was dancing in place. My grandson said to me that the president looks like a cardboard cutout because he looks confused and is perfectly still. Amazing a 12 year old could see there was a problem with Biden. The media and his family lied to the American people and covered for him daily. A kid could see Biden had a serious medical issue and the lies about his mental health just rolled on to the debate and then they could no longer cover for him.
The media is exactly like the judicial department just a wing of the Marxist liberal Democrat party. Nothing can be believed that the media puts out and you can’t trust the judicial department. They are all just there to destroy Donald Trump and in the process trash this country.
Does anyone doubt the “Deep state” now? The USA, with an economy, far above the rest of the world had/has to be destroyed. We are now so far in debt that we may never recover. What better way than to put a Demented President in office, to complete the process. To blame the Democrats alone would be to whitewash the Republicans as well. Both parties knew and covered up for Biden for years. Now we have to decide whether we will prosecute the guilty or just allow the Deep State to continue. Since neither party will want to take blame, I am quiet sure they will hang a few scapegoats and go on like nothing has ever happened. Since Jimmy Hoffa we have known the Democrat party could not be trusted and no one trusted or trusts the Republican party. We trust Trump, but can we really? We will have to see. We once had an admirable country, we need to get it back and that means prosecuting everyone involved in the “Deep State”. We the people are not blameless,for we elected these people!
Most everything Biden put his signature on while in office is now null and void. And I don’t care how the signature got on the document. Whether it by his own physical hand or by a mechanical signature apparatus, none of it is legal at this point. And, above all, this includes all the pardons that were handed out. There was nothing but a figurehead sitting in the Oval Office. I well remember the time when he had to ask what it was that he was signing while the microphone was on and the cameras were running. That should have told everyone, of any party affiliation, that there was nothing but an empty suit sitting in the Oval Office chair. His whole administration is reminiscent of the two movies “The Manchurian Candidate” and “The Tail Wagging The Dog”.
At the very least these 4 questions need to be answered. There so many more that are being asked as well. Can’t trust the democrats at the very least. They for sure do not have any answers or solutions to problems.
Crooked senile joe was a plan. The whole time. They (the socialist marxist democrats) had the perfect puppet. The stooge tried to do as told, read everything they put in front of him, went went home to the beach or the basement every chance possible, hide from the public and only talked to the complicit and supportive media. The scandal raises a series of serious questions. The first is obvious: Who the hell was running the White House while Joe Biden’s brain wasn’t working? The obvious suspects include Dr. Jill Biden, who must have known about Biden’s senility and yet continued to press him to run for president; Mike Donilon, former Biden adviser; Jeffrey Zients, Biden’s chief of staff; and even Hunter Biden, President Biden’s closest confidante. Jail time needed for ALL!!
biden ran from his basement for 2020 he has been useless since he got in the senate in 72 look at his record
Which Biden adviser was running the “auto-pen,” signing legislation, and pardons?
Jake Tapper = benchmark CYA. DISGUSTING!
Are the pardons that Biden gave legal? Who actually approved the forgiveness of the school loans?
Since Obama was the “teleprompter” president, it was the committee running the whole thing. Shades of the Deep State? It worked so well, they had no compunctions for propping up Slow Joe with the same setup!
The American people want answers and complete transparency. No one should have immunity including any colluding media personalities. Let the chips fall as they may!
Been saying for years that Jill was behind letting Joe remain in office. I just can’t understand her letting him continue knowing that he has very serious mental problems, to say the least. I guess money does speak louder than words!
Why was this allowed within the Democrat Party?
It should have been corrected after the Wilson administration.
Jake Tapper is a hypocrite! He spent the last 4 years propping up an obviously senile President and now he’s had an epiphany? All he’s interred in is $$$$$$! I, for one, want be buying or reading his trash!
The narrative that Biden hasn’t had a prostate examine in years because of his age is absolute BS! I’m 77, with no history of cancer in myself or my family, and my doctor tests me for prostate cancer every year as a part of my annual physical.
Very thought provoking questions. Unfortunately we
will never know. But we do know this… Biden was not and has not been running our country.
We know that Papa Joe pardoned just about every person in his family EXCEPT (Dr.?) Jill. Now we know she can’t testify against Papa Joe but she may be able to testify against Hunter whom I actually think she is bonking him).
Regardless, where was our Congress to ensure that check and balances were in place? Which brings me to wondering if they all have something on each other to allow such gross mismanagement of our nation.
Everyone who covered up Biden’s decline, mentally and physically are all part of ELDER ABUSE! Did anyone in the Biden family, Democrat party, or media give a crap about Joe? Or America? NO… It’s all about money and power! And the left screams about saving Democracy – Right? For any leftist reading this: Never vote Democrat again! They lied and covered up their lies!!! They can NEVER be trusted again!!! I feel for Biden cuz everyone used him and no one should have to live with abusers!
I believe that Biden’s health issues were well known by the Democrats. Thier plan was to get Biden reelected then ousted and Harris would then have the right to finish his term and possibly have two more terms, one unelected and two elected. This explains why they buried his health issues like they did. It was a good try though, luckily, Harris was such a poor pick that people didn’t want her or what’s his name. If it had worked Obama would have had 5 terms.
Who decides what constitutes a “passing grade” on the physical. We don’t need doctor exams …We have to have a working 4th rail…a valid ethical press and journalists who aren’t activists! It’s pretty simple. Jake Tapper worked hard to keep Biden in power and now he wants Americans to believe otherwise. Horse pucky!
I am appalled at the total heartlessness of his wife, Dr. Jill. You can bet your sweet bippie she knew from the beginning that he had prostate cancer but she allowed the coverup while the cancer is eating him up. What kind of wife does something as cold as that?
I am not a Joe Biden fan but my heart hurts that the democraps, especially his family, would sacrifice him in this manner. If this isn’t elder abuse, I don’t know what is and I believe the entire group of corrupt, heartless jacka$$es be charged for this unbelievable human torture of a man who was senile and had no clue what they were doing to him.
This whole thing is just too much for me to comprehend. May they all burn in Hell.
i agree that the other bad guys need to be found out but the fact that one of the “leaders” has gotten the death sentence he deserves, is poetic justice, i think.
Biden is gone & POTUS is Trump & that should be the direction we are headed. And it is time that Trump does not hold meetings with other countries & tell them that Biden was the worst ever & blame him for things. All that does, is make the USA look bad & we cannot change history. Go forward & quit looking back as that excuse is getting old.
I am really tired of hearing about Biden & cover up of his health. Anyone who watched the first debate between Trump & Biden should have seen that there was a problem. This is water under the bridge as far as I am concerned, & White House needs to address the problems that America faces today such as tariffs, Ukraine & Israel wars, Iran nuclear, a possible recession, and the health plans for all Americans. Wake up Americans and face the reality the world is facing in year 2025.
Congress ought to immediately pass a bill demanding yearly complete and transparent physical and mental tests on the president – this is a joke???? Why would congress do anything about making laws. They have only passed 5 laws since President Trump took office! This is the lowest ever! Why aren’t they working for us – the American People!! They need to get off their duffs and get to WORK!!! We voted for President Trump, the majority but the powers that be will stop at nothing to take us all down and it needs to stop!! The democrats are no longer in power, but it doesn’t look like it.
I believe many Treasonous Acts were committed during Biden’s illegitimate election. Everything they did was cursed to fail and did cease to function properly. They believe in their heart they got by with it but haven’t. You reap what you sow. It’s the Law-of-Rsciprocity. They’re the Emperor with no clothes. And, many are beginning to wake up to that fact!
Total physical before becoming President, plus a physical each year for the next three years, if a one-term President. This will assist in making the decision for voting. Results will only be released to the public if that person allows it to be, due to HIPAA.
This means, at the very least, that Congress ought to immediately pass a bill demanding yearly complete and transparent physical and mental tests on the president.?
How about ALL Congress? And Federal Judges?
Lets Let Joe die in Peace. God will take care of him. Lets investigate what happened in the administration. Some of the things that happened are treasonous. Joe would not have been there if there had been term limits. Now is the time to protect we citizens from career politicians with sound term limits. If this had been done years ago we would have had a better government. Before the last election, when it looked like the democrats might win the house or senate, there was a lot of push among our republican senators and congressman. Lets do it .
Why Cover up esp since Joe left office
Who planned Cover Up
Who ran WH
Who had Joe go in public for events when failing
Then who did the autopen edicts