JD Vance Just Nails It on Why More, Not Less, Questions Should Be Asked After Biden Cancer Diagnosis

In the immediate aftermath of the Sunday announcement from former President Joe Biden's personal office that he had been diagnosed with "prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone," the thoughts and prayers that poured in were followed by questions about his diagnosis.

There was speculation as to whether this was known much sooner than we were told, and if so, who knew what and when. After all, considering the advanced stage of the cancer, isn't this something that potentially could have been discovered through bloodwork via a Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test during Biden's presidency as part of a routine physical exam, and also considering they are recommended every two to three years for most men 55 and older?

Predictably, there are some in the media and on the left who are calling for a pause of sorts in criticism of Biden as he fights cancer, including from former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod, who told CNN Sunday that talk of Biden's decline during his presidency "should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this."

Vice President JD Vance, however, had a much different take when asked about the subject Monday. After saying "Hopefully, he makes the right recovery," here were Vance's thoughts on the appropriateness of asking questions now:

"Whether the right time to have this conversation is now or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job," Vance said. "You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around the former president ‒ I don't think he was able to do a good job for the American people."
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"That's not politics. That's not because I disagreed with him on policy," Vance said. "That's because I don't think that he was in good enough health."
"I blame him less than I blame the people around him," Vance said of Biden. "Why didn't the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn't the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with?"

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.@VP JD Vance on former President Biden's cancer diagnosis: "We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job...I don't think that he was in good enough health. In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him." pic.twitter.com/0DYOd2mu4G
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 19, 2025

I think that answer strikes the right tone between sensitivity and the reality we're facing here amid fresh revelations about the cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline during the years he was in office and the levels his staffers - and maybe those much higher in the Biden-Harris administration - were willing to go to conceal it.

Nope. If anything, I have *more* questions about what was known and what was hidden from the public. https://t.co/DohCeem9dV
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) May 19, 2025

If the MSM and Democrats had their way, there would be an indefinite hold put on questions about Biden's decline and recently revealed diagnosis. But the circumstances dictate that more sunlight, not less, is needed on this topic if for no other reason than to demonstrate to future administrations that trying to conceal issues of this nature from the public would be very unwise.

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