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JUST IN: Top CNN Reporter Calls For ‘Answers’ On Baffling Biden Diagnosis
A sudden announcement by former President Joe Biden’s team that he is carrying an aggressive form of prostate cancer appears more dubious in light of new, damning revelations that a coterie of aides hid his mental decline from the public as he ran for reelection.
Now that Biden’s unquestionable decline — and his team’s strenuous efforts to hide it — have become the prevailing narrative in American politics, other mainstream media reporters are looking at last week’s cancer diagnosis through a more critical lens. Among them is Andy Kaczynski, the CNN “K-File” reporter who previously exposed former Vice President Kamala Harris’s far-left promises, such as funding sex change operations for convicted felons, even as she denied doing so during the campaign.
Kaczynski’s latest post on X points to a new report by the Wall Street Journal that asks how Biden, surrounded the the best medical team in the world, could have suddenly developed a “small nodule” on his prostate that indicates a high-risk cancer five to 10 years in the making, according to some medical experts.
“Great WSJ story attempting to answer the first question I had at this news. Definitely more questions that need answering here,” the CNN reporter wrote on Tuesday.
Biden’s stage 4 cancer likely metastasized to the bone in the midst of his time in office, a period where he had access to unrivaled medical care, experts have said. The 82-year-old president underwent annual physical checkups that almost certainly would have included prostate exams, given the ubiquity of prostate cancer among men of his age group.
According to the Journal, it’s unknown if Biden’s battery of exams included a blood test to measure prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, which is typically ordered for male patients under the age of 75. The test isn’t a surefire way to detect all aggressive forms of prostate cancer — some don’t secrete enough PSA to be detected — but the tests are cheap and easy to implement.
“It’s in many ways unsettling that someone who has what is undoubtedly fantastic medical care could suddenly be diagnosed with aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer,” said Dr. Todd Morgan, co-director of the Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer at Michigan Medicine.
President Donald Trump, 78, receives PSA screens, as did former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Their results were released to the public along with pronouncements of health by their presidential physicians.
Responding to news of Biden’s diagnosis, Trump called it “very sad” for a president of Biden’s age to have missed cancer detection while in office.
“Someone is going to have to speak to his doctor,” Trump said. “I feel badly about it, and I think people should try and find out what happened.”
Some corners of the internet, particularly conservative enclaves, continue to raise suspicions about the timing of Biden’s cancer announcement. It comes at the height of Democratic consternation over a new tell-all book, which goes into devastating detail about the extent to which aides hid his mental decline from the public.
Leading Democrats who defended Biden’s abilities up until the very end, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have refused to engage on the topic. At a press conference this week, the New York Democrat dismissed a question on the topic, saying he is “looking forward” rather than reevaluating past decisions.
