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OPINION

The Biggest Lie They Told: Biden’s 'Clean Bill of Health'

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They told us he was fine. Fit. Focused. Capable of leading the most powerful nation on Earth for four more years. Now we learn Joe Biden is battling metastatic, high-grade prostate cancer—discovered just months after the White House and its media lapdogs paraded around his “vigorous good health” like it was gospel truth. The real story? We were lied to. Again.

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Let’s start with what the public was told. In February 2023, the White House released a medical summary from Walter Reed Medical Center declaring President Biden “a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male.” The document noted minor ailments—sleep apnea, acid reflux, and peripheral neuropathy in the feet—but assured us there was no cause for concern. In February 2024, they said essentially the same thing. “Fit for duty.” “No signs of neurological disease.” All that jazz.

Fast forward just three months—and the picture couldn’t be more different. Biden’s doctors now say he has an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, one of the most serious developments imaginable in geriatric oncology. The cancer’s Gleason score? A 9 out of 10—indicative of an advanced, high-grade disease. This didn’t materialize overnight. And no honest physician will tell you it’s common for such an advanced stage of cancer to go completely unnoticed for two years, especially in a patient undergoing regular checkups.

So what happened?

One of two things. Either Joe Biden’s physicians are grossly incompetent, failing to identify one of the most common male cancers during routine assessments—or, more likely, the American people were knowingly misled about the President’s health.

And that’s where the media comes in.

The same press corps that spent years obsessing over Trump’s weight and Diet Coke consumption turned into stenographers for White House health bulletins the moment Biden took office. CNN praised Biden’s “strong cognitive performance.” The New York Times ran pieces talking about how Biden’s physicals were “reassuring.” Not one major outlet demanded access to full cognitive testing results. Not one dared question the growing public perception that the man behind the podium looked frail, confused, and frequently lost. His gait was stiff, his speech riddled with stumbles, his schedule as light as a part-time employee at Chick-fil-A—and yet the press continued playing along.

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They didn’t ask the hard questions because they didn’t want the answers. To do so would have meant jeopardizing the re-election narrative they were hellbent on selling.

Now, with the truth catching up to them, they feign shock. “How could this happen so quickly?” they ask, as if months of visible decline and an entire reelection campaign built on denial weren’t enough of a clue. Biden’s cancer diagnosis didn’t come out of nowhere—it was hidden in plain sight, obscured by compliant headlines and sanitized White House press briefings.

Let’s not kid ourselves: Biden’s health and mental acuity were central to the question of whether he should be trusted with a second term. The American people had a right to know—*in full detail*—what state the President’s body and mind were in. Instead, they got fiction. And the stakes of that lie weren’t trivial. They were existential.

Imagine any Republican president concealing such a diagnosis while running for reelection. The media would have erupted in righteous fury. There would’ve been 24-hour panels on MSNBC, wild speculation about impeachment, and calls to invoke the 25th Amendment. But for Biden? Crickets.

Even now, legacy media outlets are tiptoeing around the implications. They’re framing the diagnosis as a “new challenge” instead of what it really is—a stunning revelation that shatters the narrative they helped construct.

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But let’s take this further. If Biden’s White House was willing to keep his cancer under wraps, what else have they hidden? We’ve all seen the video clips—Biden wandering off stages, forgetting names, freezing mid-sentence. Those weren’t one-offs. They were patterns. Signs. Red flags. And the press ignored them because the alternative—President Kamala Harris or a chaotic primary—was politically inconvenient.

So they gaslit the country. They sold us the image of a “scrappy fighter,” downplaying the mental fog and physical decline as quirks. They told us to trust the experts. But the real experts—the American people watching Biden stumble through debates and interviews—knew better.

Now, with a diagnosis that should alarm even his most devoted supporters, we are left asking: Was this deception deliberate? I believe it was. And if that’s true, then the implications aren’t just medical—they’re moral. The White House, and the media who enabled them, betrayed the American people. They abandoned transparency. They suppressed legitimate questions. And they did it to protect power, not the public.

It’s a profound dereliction of duty. One that undermines the very premise of a free press.

If you ask me whether Biden is capable of finishing a second term, the answer isn’t just “no”—it’s “how dare they even suggest it.” The presidency isn’t a sympathy job. It requires vigor, sharpness, and endurance. And pretending otherwise isn’t compassion—it’s corruption.

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This moment should serve as a wake-up call to voters, journalists, and lawmakers alike: Demand the truth. Always. Don’t let narrative override reality. Because when the media chooses comfort over courage, they don’t just fail the people—they endanger the Republic.

Shame on them.

And may we never let them forget it.

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