Biden's cancer announcement (05-19-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] So, it looks like Jake Tapper and his legacy media colleagues missed another Biden health story. Man. Joe Biden is like the sneakiest, trickiest, cleverest hider of secrets ever. I mean, think about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson from Axios.

[00:00:56] They got their book coming out talking about, you know, Joe Biden's declining mental acuity. They interviewed 200 sources. Of course, after, you know, the election when it doesn't matter.

[00:01:16] 200 sources they talked to about Joe Biden's mental health and his declining cognitive abilities. And not one of them, none of them ever told Jake Tapper or Alex Thompson, hey, you know, Joe might actually have cancer, too.

[00:01:41] Because the more I hear about this, the more it seems quite unlikely that this was just revealed. Well, to the family. Now, obviously, you know, cancer is terrible. My prayers are with Joe Biden and his family. It's awful.

[00:02:08] But that is a separate and distinct thing. Oh, by the way, I should also point out because I just saw this. Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon series. He apparently today divulged that he, too, has the exact same cancer as Joe Biden. And he said he expects that he'll be dead by summer. And he's about the same age, I think.

[00:02:39] I think he's a little bit younger than Joe Biden, who is now, what, 82. But I can separate the human side of this cancer diagnosis that the Bidens have announced and then also look at the way this was handled. And it seems pretty obvious this is not something that he just got.

[00:03:07] And if it is like you're going to discourage a lot of men from getting tested. Because what's the point? Right. Like you go in for a routine physical exam or something like, oh, you got prostate cancer. You got two months to live. It already metastasized. It's into the bones. And like, but I was just in here. I was just in here like six months ago or whatever.

[00:03:36] Like if that's how quickly this cancer will kill you, that's the message that's going out right now. And prostate cancer is like very preventable, but also and treatable when caught early, as long as you do the early detection stuff. And. I don't know if you're going to say like, oh, well, you got it now. You got six months to live and that's it. Like that's not going to inspire people to get tested.

[00:04:03] And this is why I don't believe that this is just something that they. Got a diagnosis of like within a week. I don't believe that. Maybe it's true. I could be wrong, but I'm going to go over some of the details. And I'm just I think it's just. I think the chances are remote. So here's Politico. So.

[00:04:29] Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday. Doctors diagnosed Biden last week with a prostate nodule after he experienced increasing urinary symptoms. By Friday, they diagnosed him with cancer. So that's the timeline that the the Bidens are putting out there.

[00:04:59] Diagnosed with a nodule last week. And. By Friday, they said he had. Cancer and it had metastasized into the bone. There is a scale. It's called the Gleason scale, and it's a scale of the aggressiveness of cancer. And his is a nine on the Gleason scale. And I think it goes to 10. But so that it's it's very aggressive.

[00:05:28] But they say it appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management, effective management, which means. But you can keep hitting it with hormone treatments, maybe some chemo, some IVs and stuff. And you can keep it at bay, even though it is very aggressive. OK. Now. With metastasis to the bone. Like that takes time to develop.

[00:05:59] And. I'm not believing that this happened since Joe Biden left office. And by the way, I'm not the only one who holds this opinion. Zeke Emanuel does. Dr. Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist. Brother to Rahm Emanuel on Morning Joe. You believe it is likely if this prostate cancer has spread to the bone that he could have had it for up to a decade.

[00:06:29] But certainly it's likely. Would it be fair to say it's likely to have had this for at least several years? Oh, more than several years. You don't get prostate cancer. So, again, I just I just want to stop you. So this is this is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that is spread to the bone, then he's most certainly you are saying had it when he was president of the United States.

[00:06:58] Oh, yeah. He did not develop it in the last 100, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, that I don't think there's any disagreement about that. And and and and I'm just curious, again, if you're if you're a doctor to a president of the United States,

[00:07:26] that is a male, that is an older man, would prostate tests. And again, we're just talking about a PSA screening, a blood test that you could do along with all the other blood tests. And so it's not even that it would be intrusive. Would would this not be one of the first tests that you would conduct as a White House doctor?

[00:07:51] Sure. If you're a White House doctor in this situation, I think you would certainly discuss it with the president and talk about the pros and cons. I think if you then ask, well, if President Biden says, well, if I'm your father, which patients often do, you know, what would you recommend? And I think the fact is that most White House doctors would recommend getting the test.

[00:08:16] And again, the evidence is look at President Obama, President Bush younger than President Biden. And they both got the test. They both got the test. They've all it's just a blood test. It's a. Why wouldn't you test for it? At his age, I know I think after like 70 years old, I think they they may say, you know, it's not like recommended that you do so. But you're the president of the United States. Why wouldn't you test?

[00:08:46] With the blood. That you're probably already drawing to run all of your other annual physical tests for two. Right. And they were coming out and saying clean bill of health, everybody. In fact, hang on a second. Where is it? Yeah. Yeah. Harry Sisson. This little punk lefty influencer kid, the one that was literally on the payroll for the Democrats to put out TikTok videos. Back on February 28th to 2024. There it is.

[00:09:16] President Biden's physician just commented on Biden's health, saying President Biden is a healthy, active, robust 81 year old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. Biden is fit to serve any Republican who says he isn't is lying. That was February last year. Before the coup that ousted Joe Biden.

[00:09:42] And to hear Zeke Emanuel and what I'm seeing from other doctors that are commenting on this is that, of course, you would do the PSA tests. You could do the digital exam as well. And no, it would not have metastasized to the bone in the last three months. How is it possible that the White House doctor did not know this?

[00:10:09] This is not something that you would develop this quickly, which means the family knew, which means people in the White House knew, which means people who do who were sources to Tapper and Thompson's book that some of them probably knew, too. And they never disclosed it. They never gave up that information. The diagnosis is relevant. Revelation rather came as Democrats were publicly. I love this grappling with new questions about Biden's mental acuity. They are not new.

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[00:12:04] I just want to let you know, I think you're being somewhat unfair. I'm not sure if you're aware of your assessment that former President Biden knew about his prostate cancer and this was a secret kept from the American public. Because it is entirely possible that is a true statement. Okay?

[00:12:26] I am a physician in Charlotte and had done everything 100% appropriate with prostate cancer screening and was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer with no symptoms, except for occasionally having to get up and go to the bathroom at night, which every older man has to do, I think. But no other symptoms and no other presentation.

[00:12:53] And the disease without symptoms was diagnosed metastatic and every screening test appropriate had been done. So, this actually is not that uncommon. And it's unfair to those people that have it happen for you to say that it's impossible that it could have happened to President Biden. I said, I said, I don't believe I said it was impossible. I said, I feel like it's not very possible. It is very possible. Yeah, I'm still not.

[00:13:20] Here's why I don't believe that, is that this is the guy with the best access to the best medical care. Sir, let me tell you something. Mm-hmm. There's no one that has better access to the best medical care than a physician who sees this as his colleagues on a regular basis. Even the president? You have better health care than the president? I have no question that it's equal. That it's equal?

[00:13:49] So, you're saying you've got the same health care, you've got the same quality health care as the president of the United States? I would say that when it comes to prostate cancer screening, there are only certain tests that would be done. I do not expect of him that he would have had an MRI on a regular basis to evaluate his prostate, especially at his age. I don't think that anybody would have done that.

[00:14:11] And given the aggressive nature of the tumor that he has, Gleason 9, it is entirely possible that it presented with metastatic disease on presentation. And if you speak to an oncologist who does urologic oncology all the time, you'll find that this is not an uncommon presentation for someone who only does this as a subspecialty. Right. So, what do you then make of what Zeke Emanuel said?

[00:14:38] I think that he's probably not an oncologist who does only urologic oncology. And so, his opinion on the matter is incorrect? It's not as good as you could get. Well, I'm not asking if it's as good as you can get. I'm asking, is it incorrect? I think that, I can't speak to whether or not it was a secret that was hidden.

[00:15:01] I can tell you that men do get metastatic prostate cancer without symptoms and that it is not unheard of for that to happen. And it could happen to an 83-year-old man without any difficulty, whether he's the president or not. Okay. Well, Steve, I appreciate it. I'm sorry that you've got the same diagnosis.

[00:15:20] Yeah. Well, you know, I appreciate that. And, you know, the point being is, I don't think that it discourages men from getting appropriate medical screening. It's no different than can you get breast cancer that's aggressive and metastatic despite getting mammograms. You can get colon cancer if you get appropriate colon cancer screening.

[00:15:44] People get cancer. It decreases the likelihood that you would die from your disease if you have appropriate screening. But it does not eliminate that possibility. No, of course not. It doesn't matter what cancer we're screening for. Yeah, the screenings don't, the screenings just detect, right? I don't think anybody's making the argument that the screenings prevent. The screenings detect, so this way you can then get treatments. You can start treatments and the earlier you catch it, then the more likely those treatments are to succeed.

[00:16:13] But the reality is, is that the screening tests or no screening test for cancer is 100% effective. And by definition, it doesn't matter if you, you know, if you at the best data look at screening, whether it be breast, colon, skin, it doesn't matter. I mean, we can all go get skin checks and lesions are missed. We can get PSAs performed and they cannot be elevated. And then a year later, they can be elevated.

[00:16:41] We can get colon cancer, colonoscopies, and we can be screened. And despite that, we can still develop colon cancer and die from it. The point I'm saying is that bad things happen occasionally and they do occur despite getting appropriate screening. And it doesn't necessarily mean that it can't happen. And we need to respect the fact that even though I'm speaking completely outside of politics, I don't. That's not what this is about.

[00:17:08] This is about recognizing the fact that despite doing the right thing, he could still have presented with metastatic prostate cancer. All right. Well, I mean, that's fair enough. But here's the problem that I have is that you're asking me to believe the Bidens. Well, I recognize the concern there, and I do recognize that. But it's like I wanted to make sure that we know that from a medical standpoint, despite getting everything done correctly,

[00:17:37] people do present with metastatic prostate cancer despite doing everything appropriately. If it came on within the last 10 months. It could easily have presented within the past 10 months. Right. That's right. Because that's essentially what they're saying is that there was nothing else going on. And he had some problems with urinary function. And then he got diagnosed on Friday.

[00:18:07] This all happened within a week. And so I'm assuming that it is physical a year ago or almost a year ago. The PSA was normal. Right. So that's what I'm being asked to believe is that this all presented since he left and it all just popped right as the book is getting ready to launch. All I can tell you is personally, my PSA was normal one year to the day before I presented with cancer. So as a physician, then what are your recommendations for people? Do you get more screenings?

[00:18:36] Well, at this point, we don't have the problem is there. There are the PSA is not as good a test as we would like. I think that we have to watch do what we can at this point, which is follow the routine screening recommendations for for PSA. And we're looking carefully at the literature as it develops to see if there's another test or a collection of tests that might do a better job at screening people for that cancer or any cancer. Right.

[00:19:04] Recognizing the fact that despite doing things correctly, you can still have a bad outcome. And so your PSA numbers were normal, but were you doing the digital exams too? Me personally? Yeah. Yes, I was doing everything correctly. Right. And still having it still presented a year after everything was normal with metastatic disease. Gotcha. Well, Steve, I appreciate the call. And again, my prayers for you and your diagnosis. Thank you for the call. All right.

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[00:20:58] So his original diagnosis was at the latest about six weeks ago. Let me go over to Bob. Hello, Bob. Welcome to the show. How are you? Good morning. I've had prostate cancer. It's a really easy process to get through. I was going to an endocrinologist with my diabetes and he was doing the PSA test. And one day he said to me, your prostate has risen from 6.4 to 6.8.

[00:21:26] I recommend you see a urologist, which I went and they did a biopsy. And I hadn't heard anybody mention that yet. And he showed me the pictures and my wife and I looked at it and we have, I had cancer. But fortunately, I quoted early enough that it hadn't left the prostate. Right. So then I went on chemo, which was heavy on the, what do you call it, female hormones. Estrogen. Estrogen, yeah. Yep. And scheduled for radiation.

[00:21:54] So I had 44 radiation treatments, which created a different problem. I won't go there. But it's been four years and my PSA test is at 0.1, which is a huge drop. Yeah. I don't have cancer. Well, that's great to hear, Bob. And when caught, you know, early, the five-year survival rate, where is it here?

[00:22:20] In patients with localized prostate cancer, so it hasn't spread, the five-year survival approximates 100%. Yeah. I mean, it's not been a problem for me. You know, I mean, I don't have prostate anymore, but, you know, I'm living. Right. Yeah. No, I got you. Well, Bob. I cannot stress enough that you need to have PSA testing as a regular routine, especially in your 60s. Yeah. That's what it seems like.

[00:22:47] And it seems like you should be having it like every six months. Yeah. And when they tell you that you need to have a biopsy, yeah, it's kind of invasive, but you have to have it. Right. I got you. Bob. Well, I'm glad to hear the good news for you. Thanks for the call. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Take care. Let me go over and chat with Mike. Hello, Mike. Hey, how are you doing? Hey, I'm good. What's up? I agree with you 100%. I don't trust any of them. And I look at it this way.

[00:23:16] And again, we're going off this prostate cancer thing. I think it's all about transparency, just like you said, because if they would have came out and said a year ago that he has been diagnosed with some type of prostate cancer, that shows weakness. Right? I mean, our president had polio, and they kept it from the public.

[00:23:45] They never showed him from the waist down because it shows weakness. And I'm with you 100%. I think he did have some problems with it because it is unlikely if he's getting, and I'm in kind of the same boat. My father had prostate cancer. My older brother had prostate cancer. I get checked all the time. I don't have it yet.

[00:24:10] But I find it hard to believe that all of a sudden, after he leaves office, now we get the thing that he's got it. And it's kind of like, so let's stay off of Joe. If he had committed any crimes while he was president, let's just not worry about that now because he's ill. I mean, I don't wish it on anybody. I think it's awful.

[00:24:37] But I also think that the government has kept so much stuff from us mentally, physically on this man. I think it was all hushed up, and I think they kept it quiet. And now that he's out of office, now it's the second phase of it. But, I mean, look what they did with his son. His son, look at Hunter, look at both of them.

[00:25:06] You know, they skated around all this stuff with him. Bo was painted as being this war hero. I doubt very much that he saw a lot of action when he was in the service. Being that his father was in the service. I don't, yeah, well, Mike, I don't have any idea what, sir, I mean, I don't have any idea what Bo did in the military when he was in it.

[00:25:27] I mean, I think I can limit myself just to the way that the White House handled Joe Biden's cognitive decline and the way they targeted Trump for, like, the document stuff. I've got the Her tapes as well to play, which I think it's pretty coincidental that just as the Her audio files drop and just as the book is about to come out, that now we have this announcement. I appreciate the call, Mike. Like, that's the problem I have with this story.

[00:25:56] And again, I'm separating the diagnosis from the way the story is being presented in that I am being asked to trust the Bidens and whoever is still around them, their aides, their comms people. I'm being asked to believe them. And I can't. There's no way I can't. And honestly, I feel like I'm being manipulated.

[00:26:26] Because, as the Politico article notes, David Axelrod, the longtime Democratic operative and former Barack Obama advisor, said on CNN moments after the diagnosis was revealed that conversations about Biden's mental acuity, quote, should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this. I feel like I'm being manipulated.

[00:26:57] As the book publishes tomorrow, I think, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, their book hits the shelves tomorrow. They've been releasing excerpts of it. None of them have been good for the Bidens or the people around them or the media, including Tapper and Thompson.

[00:27:21] By the way, if Joe Biden was getting treatment and they wanted to keep it hush-hush, do you think he may have gone to his beach house every other weekend or so for a little bit of time? Because that happened. And there are no visitor logs at the Rehoboth Beach house. I don't know.

[00:27:47] But you're asking me to trust an operation that has obviously been lying about another aspect of his health. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too. And you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place.

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[00:29:12] Given Biden's cognitive impairment. Kevin O'Connor, the president's former doctor who never recommended that Biden take a cognitive test will be called. So, too, will White House staffers who oversaw an overuse of the auto pen, a mechanical device that replicates the president's signature to authorize executive orders and grant pardons. John Fund wrote this yesterday.

[00:29:40] The question is, who decided what would be signed? It's unclear. Five people were running the country. That's a direct quote from an unnamed source in the upcoming book, Original Sin by Jay Tapper and Alex Thompson.

[00:29:58] This book, which will be published Tuesday, tomorrow, follows last week's release by Axios, where Alex Thompson works, of five hours of tapes from Biden's October 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Herr, who was probing into Biden's retention of classified documents from his time as vice president.

[00:30:22] Herr ultimately decided that Biden, quote, willfully kept the documents, but he did not recommend that charges be brought because a jury would probably find that Biden is a, quote, quote, sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, end quote.

[00:30:41] A transcript of her interview with Joe Biden was published last year, but the Biden White House tenaciously fought against releasing the tapes, citing law enforcement concerns. Well, we now know the real reason. The tapes reveal a president who cannot recall key facts, has to frequently pause mid-sentence and changes the subject often.

[00:31:07] Quote, the presidency requires someone who can perform at 2 a.m. during an emergency, Tapper and Thompson write in their book. Cabinet secretaries in his own administration told us that by 2024, he could not be relied on for this. He could not be relied on to answer the call at 2 a.m. His own secretaries were saying that.

[00:31:31] The very ones who would be the ones to come forward and invoke the 25th Amendment and, you know, blow the whistle on this. I have said this repeatedly. This is the biggest political scandal in my lifetime and quite possibly in our history. You have a group of people that shut out everybody to prevent the president from being identified as being in cognitive decline.

[00:32:01] And those people then were running the government. They were making what decisions? All of them, some of them, none of them. Don't know. Here's something else, too, by the way. Is it possible that he was having treatments for maybe prostate cancer or maybe cognitive decline issues, right? Parkinson's or I don't know. Right.

[00:32:25] Is it possible he was having treatments at his Delaware home when he was constantly going down there to remember, like it was every week, every other week. He was down there for like three, four days at a time. Oh, he's still working. And then you'd see him, you know, fighting a beach chair. Right. Or just like passed out, zonked out on the beach sleeping. Is it possible that the bruises that people were identifying on his hand that would pop up pretty regularly that indicated some sort of IV treatments?

[00:32:55] I don't know. You're asking me to trust the Bidens and I can't. You're asking me to trust these White House aides and these insiders and all the people that have been lying about his cognitive decline. Here's something else. If he was undergoing treatments for cancer. Could that have made his cognitive issues more pronounced? I've heard of chemo brain. Were we seeing something like that?

[00:33:24] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insists that the country should be looking forward rather than analyzing how Biden came to run for reelection despite his cognitive impairment. See, so there's already this effort. To deflect away. All right. We need to move on. I don't I understand why Democrats want to just move on. And the Bidens would prefer that his legacy remain intact for whatever that is. There was in there was indeed this is John Fund again.

[00:33:52] There was indeed a massive cover up inside the White House. As the Atlantic. Blatantly reported this week, quote, dozens of people in Biden's orbit suspected that he was not physically or mentally equipped to be the president of the United States, yet they helped him seek that office and keep it when he couldn't reliably perform its duties.

[00:34:14] These people then sought to return Biden to that office for four more years, even if that meant the country would most likely have been quietly run by unelected aides. Or as Democrats call it. The democracy. They talked about putting him in a wheelchair, but they didn't want the optics of that until after the election. Right. Their own hold on power.

[00:34:45] Was so enjoyed. And it was so enjoyed because of Joe Biden's infirmities. They had every incentive to continue with the call it elder abuse, if you wish. But the using of Joe Biden in order to ensconce themselves in power and to keep themselves there.

[00:35:12] Those close to him say the first signs that he was deteriorating. 2015. That's when his son Bo died. Recordings from 2017 of Joe Biden talking with a ghostwriter show a man in distress. Quote, Biden was really struggling in 2017. His cognitive capacity seemed to have been failing him.

[00:35:34] If he had won, people in the Biden world believe that there would have been a constitutional crisis because clearly the people in his inner circle were not willing to cede power. That's what they were talking about before he had the debate performance. They were talking about a constitutional crisis. If Joe Biden were to run again and win, then what? President Harris.

[00:36:02] This is a huge scandal. And the announcement from the Bidens yesterday, do not mitigate that. You don't get a pass. And the people around him sure as hell don't. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to the Pete calendar show dot com.

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