Does the Biden Cover-Up Have Two Layers?

By Jeffrey Blehar

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

 

Joe Biden, long known to be unwell by nearly everyone in America except the mainstream media and professional Democrats, has now been revealed to be far more unwell than we even suspected: His communications team announced on Sunday night that Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone. It is a terrible situation for the former president, and my first thought upon hearing the news was to pray for him and his family.

 

My second thought was less charitable, however, and it had that old Howard Baker ring to it: “What did the president know and when did he know it?” (This was also my third, fourth, and fifth thought.) My answer: far more than they are admitting with this “modified limited hangout” strategy. Biden and his people are likely hoping that America will react to the news of his cancer diagnosis with pity and generosity and drop all those awkward questions about whether his entire presidency was a giant fraud executed by a cabal of presidential aides. Democratic operative David Axelrod accidentally read the stage directions out loud Sunday night when he went on CNN: “Those conversations will happen, but they should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.” (Points for subtlety there, Dave.)

 

I will not drop those questions. I will not be gulled by a cheap and cynical strategy. Readers, set aside for a moment the natural (and proper) instinct to empathize with a cancer diagnosis, and realize: Joe Biden and his team are still lying to you.

 

Few would outright trust that Biden’s doctors only just now discovered his cancer, and I’m pleased to note that for once the mainstream media is out in force saying so. Dr. Zeke Emanuel (Rahm’s brother and one of the most accomplished oncologists in the United States) went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and bluntly said that Biden had to have been suffering from prostate cancer for years: “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.” Both Emanuel and Scarborough were in fact unusually emphatic that this was not speculation, and that it was a medical impossibility for Biden’s cancer to be new. (For those who remember fading Biden administration lore, Morning Joe was famous as Biden’s “favorite television show,” the only one he watched most mornings — and the hosts of Morning Joe are well aware of this.)

 

Left unstated, but implied, by Emanuel and Scarborough is that Biden was well aware of the fact that he had cancer. This particular cancer is not the sort that emerges at stage 4 as a surprise, not to mention in one of the most carefully medically monitored human beings on earth. (It would be plausible, perhaps, for an older man who hated going to the doctor to show up at his local hospital after 15 years without a checkup to receive such a diagnosis, but such things do not sneak up on the president of the United States.) In fact, many are now wondering whether Biden, in a typical “Biden moment,” accidentally revealed his condition to the world back in 2022 — and we all figured he was garbling his words rather than inadvertently pulling back the curtain.

 

So, has Biden been receiving cancer treatment for years and concealing it? This would explain one of the aspects of Biden’s presidency most frequently mocked by his opponents: his seemingly unbreakable schedule of regular weekend travel to his family home in Delaware. It would have been a very dangerous game for the Biden administration to try to falsify official White House visitor logs; Joe Biden’s Delaware abode, meanwhile, has no such legal requirements.

 

Of course this is pure speculation. But would you bet on the other side of the question? And who wouldn’t speculate this way, given that the Biden administration spent the last four years lying brazenly to us about his parlous mental state? These people do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

 

Recall that a year ago today, Joe Biden was still running for reelection. We now discover that, even as Biden’s campaign raged about “cheap fakes,” they were contemplating having to put him in a wheelchair if he won. One of Biden’s senior aides has excused the conspiracy to hide the president’s mental and physical collapse with simon-pure cynicism: “He just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years — he’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while.”

 

This is a level of corruption worthy of medieval European court politics. (“The king is dying, we must keep it secret to secure the succession!”) It is all the more appalling to see it come from a Democratic Party that has, for the past decade, portrayed itself — alternately smug and shrieking — as the Last Guardians of American Democracy. It is also mildly tragic.

 

For I well understand the valence of the present political moment: Trust in political institutions has all but vanished, and anyone who focuses on the misdeeds of one side misses the importance of the culture-wide collapse. To wit: Donald Trump is about to accept a free jet as a bribe from Qatar, and to phrase it any more euphemistically than that would be to lie about the true nature of the transaction. (Many will now complain that I pointed out this obvious truth about the collapse of public trust in a piece about Biden, thus missing the point.)

 

And yet a grand fraud was perpetrated upon the American people over the last half decade — and, evidently, we only knew half of it. We are only just beginning to realize the full scale of the imposture and to reckon with its consequences. They will be more extensive than many realize. Trust has now been permanently broken on all sides. And the only reason to trust any official statement from the former president about his health now is that you think the Biden administration showed candor in its previous dealings with the public in regard to the president’s health.

 

Well . . . do you?

 

John Fetterman Still Needs Better Friends

 

Senator John Fetterman is back in the news again, and this time for reasons he justifiably would prefer not to be. Three weeks ago, New York magazine published an article purporting to reveal the heretofore concealed struggles of the Pennsylvania Democrat’s recovery from the debilitating stroke he suffered during his (successful) 2022 campaign for the open seat.

 

We are given unnerving details about how close Fetterman seemingly came to a complete mental collapse in early 2023, as he wrestled not only with the effects of the stroke but with the massive depression that attended it. We are also told that his disturbing behavior — including irresponsible habits like texting while driving, and a late-night car accident he was responsible for that injured both him and his wife — has continued to the present day. We are told that (much like Joe Biden, a curious thematic link if ever there was one) the image of him as a healthy senator is but a mirage, and that underneath lurks the real John Fetterman: a deeply wounded basket case liable to self-destruct at any moment.

 

I left this story on the table back when the news first broke, for several reasons. For one thing, far too many words have been spilled over the Fetterman controversy already. The most obvious point has been made eloquently by many others, namely that the former staffers and insiders criticizing Fetterman in print now are doing so largely because he has distinguished himself as a “Democrat with crossover appeal” in all the wrong ways, as far as the left is concerned.

 

Many people like and admire Fetterman, even across the aisle, because of his strong pro-Israel positions. They like his “big knucklehead” visual presentation and habit of making no-nonsense quips about bipartisan idiocy. In an age of reflexive tribalism in elected politics, he goes it alone. This, of course, is not something the woke left is looking to encourage as a trend. So it is impossible not to question the timing of these stories, and the New York piece helpfully makes it easy enough to do so by framing the report in terms of Fetterman’s reported 2028 presidential aspirations. (Many of those quoted frankly admit their goal is to dissuade him from such a run.)

 

But the story is still percolating; every few days or so another mainstream media outlet publishes a piece with further whispers about Fetterman’s erratic behavior. And everyone on the center-right, amusingly enough (who are we to leap to the defense of a Democrat? Let them fight!), is taking Fetterman’s side in this dispute. His critics are scandal-mongering. They’re spreading tabloid trash. They’re trying to send a message not to support Israel. I have heard all of these defenses from my friends, and in large part I agree with them.

 

And yet I have to ask: Are the people telling these stories about Fetterman simply making them up? If not, then I have a problem — because in that case the man is unwell. It’s one thing to be unwell as a senator and another thing to be a senator engaging in reckless behavior.

 

I have a complicated relationship with Fetterman as a subject; my inaugural piece for the Corner (and thus the beginning of my career here) was drafted in the aftermath of his disastrous debate against Dr. Oz in late October 2022. On that night, the depths of his communication difficulties were revealed, after months of concealment by his campaign team and the media. “John Fetterman Needs Better Friends,” ran the title of that piece. He obviously has grown significantly in my estimation over subsequent years.

 

But I see no reason to change that bottom-line assessment, even if the reasoning is now different. People he trusted are willing to abandon him because he became the face of Democratic pro-Zionist working-class politics.

 

But assuming that these stories have not been invented out of whole cloth, they alarm me. I’m less concerned about the motivations of the people who have gone on record about this than I am about Fetterman’s needing to take better care of himself. I don’t want him to resign, I don’t want him to become a Republican, I don’t want him to do anything except not hurt himself or others needlessly. If he can do that, he’s fine by me, whether he remains a “based” Democrat or evolves into Bernie Sanders. But put health first.