Editors at National Review Online respond to the latest news involving former President Joe Biden’s health.
We wish former President Biden all the best in his fight against cancer. … God willing, he will make a full recovery.
Jumping at the opportunity, Democratic political operative David Axelrod contended that, as a result of this news, the ongoing debate over the many health problems that Biden suffered while president “should be more muted and set aside for now.” Alas, this will not do. With the aid of a couple of tell-all books and the belated release of the Hur tapes, the American public is slowly being informed about one of the worst political cover-ups in the history of the United States. It is possible that President Biden’s cancer diagnosis is unrelated to that conspiracy. But it is by no means obviously so. Pace David Axelrod’s insinuation, there is nothing untoward or scurrilous about the citizenry asking who knew what — and when.
Thus far, we have learned that, despite its members’ indignant insistence that all was well, Joe Biden’s inner circle knew full well that the president was unfit for office before his first term was even halfway complete. Among the revelations that have been made since Biden retired are that he frequently forgot the names of his staff and his friends; that his own cabinet was unsure if he would be capable of dealing with a crisis; and that, at one point, his aides privately discussed whether he would need to be put in a wheelchair should he win a second term. Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper described the administration’s conduct like this:
“The White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White House staffers. They were lying to Democratic members of Congress, to donors, about how bad things had gotten.”
It does not require too great a leap to wonder whether Biden’s prostate cancer was also concealed.
