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Ex-prez Biden's cancer diagnosis fuels Trump team's cover-up claims
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|May 20, 2025
US President Donald Trump's allies on Monday used Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis to stoke a growing row over whether the Democrat and his team covered up concerns about his health while in office.
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WASHINGTON:
While Trump expressed sadness after Biden was found to have an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his Vice President JD Vance said that "we really do need to be honest" about Biden's fitness.
Trump's son Don Jr. questioned whether there had been a "cover up".
Biden's health was already in the spotlight before his diagnosis with "aggressive" prostate cancer, thanks to a new book on the subject that comes out this week.
This story is from the May 20, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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