Who is responsible for covering up Biden's deadly prostate cancer: Himself? His doctor? His political handlers? His wife, "Dr." Jill"?

Whoever did, it's appalling.

Who knew?

It was bad enough that the Biden administration for years covered up the president’s unravelling cognition. Now it’s possible that his aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer was covered up in the same way. Was it hidden because it would have doomed his re-election bid?

Urologists and other medics are astonished that Biden’s cancer has progressed so far so quickly without someone—Biden himself, Dr. Jill or his doctors—noticing.

Indeed, the cancer has spread at an alarming rate. It has roared up to stage 4 with a Gleason score* of 9 while metastasizing into the bone. It doesn’t get much worse than that. That’s why many experts don’t believe that his cancer first showed up just a few days, ago.

Among them is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of former Chicago mayor Rohm Emanuel and a former member of Biden’s team that crafted Obamacare.

Emanuel said the 82-year-old likely had cancer while serving as president. Stunning.

“He’s had this for many years,” Emanuel said, “maybe even a decade, growing there and spreading. He did not develop it in the last 100 to 200 days.”

And most disturbing, Emanuel said, “He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.”

In other words, add one more lie to the fakery that has characterized the Biden administration. Did Biden know he had it when he ran for president in 2020? Or when he served as president? Or when he decided to run for re-election. Is it possible that he believed himself healthy enough to be commander-in-chief?

Is it possible that he didn’t know that he had it? Is it possible that his wife and his puppet-masters knew, but keep the news from him? It was deplorable enough that Dr. Jill let a fading old man run for president in 2020, but if she knew and didn’t tell him about the cancer because she is so obviously ambitious it is especially monstrous.

Did Biden’s doctor not perform a standard test for the presence of prostate cancer? Such as a PSA test that discloses the presence of a specific protein that indicates a possible infection. Did he do a digital rectal exam? An ultra-sound? An MRI? Now, a simple urine test might find the cancer.

Did the doctor know but kept the news from his patient—an unthinkable act by a health care professional. Did he tell only the president’s staff—a possible violation of medical privacy laws?

Cancer that has metastasized into the bones is quite painful. When did Biden start feeling the pain? Did he not share that pain with Dr. Jill or his own physician?

A Biden statement said he was diagnosed with a prostate nodule on May 6 because he was having urinary problems. On May 16 the aggressive cancer was announced,

Biden's most recent annual physical as president was in February 2024. His doctor, Kevin O'Connor, pronounced the president as a "healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency." Nope, there was no cancer, the doctor reported.

It is even more extraordinary that the cancer wasn’t caught sooner when the president has probably the best health care providers and facilities in the world.

I’ve had prostate cancer. It was detected early because of an elevated PSA. I had a biopsy to confirm it. I had nine weeks of radiation and some painful side-effects. But routine office visits ensured that the disease wouldn’t be hidden. I’ve been cancer free for several years now. Why couldn’t Biden?

Just how slowly prostate cancer grows is reflected in a debate over “active surveillance” for low-risk prostate cancer patients. It argues that the cancer grows so slowly, men should not be rushed into surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Watchful waiting until it is decided that it might be dangerous. (Howard Wolinsky, an experienced medical writer and a friend—we both worked together at the Chicago Sun-Times—explains it all in his blog, Active Survivor. I highly recommend it.)

I’m not given to conspiracy theories, but it stretches belief that the cancer popped up overnight or that no one noticed until it was too late. Clearly Biden was physically frail and mentally challenged. But even a hint about his failings was declared anathema.

It’s bad enough that the very people who unequivocally declared Biden to be as sharp as a tack are now writing best sellers as if they are just now discovering his decline to be true.

But the possibility that someone, anyone, who hid Biden’s cancer from the public is beyond, way beyond, contemptible. It’s true that “democracy dies in darkness” as the liberal Washington Post posits. How much darker can it get than this?

*A Gleason score of 9, (grade group 5), means the cancer cells look very different from healthy cells and are likely to grow and spread more quickly. It typically ranges from 6, which is low-grade cancer, to 10, which is a high-grade cancer. Biden’s 9 is highly risky, more than dangerous. Grade Group 5 is most likely to grow and spread quickly, while group 1 spreads more slowly.