Joe Biden claims he would have resigned if he knew he had cancer while president
The 46th president announced in May 2025 that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.
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Former President Joe Biden, now 83, told PEOPLE ahead of his memoir "Promise Me, America" that he would have resigned and not run in 2024 if he had known he had cancer. He was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in May 2025, has finished radiation treatment, and has begun hormone therapy. He also defended pardoning his son Hunter, criticized President Trump's East Wing demolition and ballroom plan, and said his latest tests showed the cancer had not spread.
The article attributes its main claims to Biden's own interview with PEOPLE and uses direct quotes throughout. It adds some context about his debate struggles and cognitive concerns, but it stays mostly factual and proportionate.
- Claims are tied to quotes: "I would have resigned" and "I believe that on an objective basis..."
- Includes the debate context, calling the "We finally beat Medicare" line "now-infamous"
- Describes "visible struggles with health and signs of cognitive decline" without attributing the characterization
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The NEW YORK POST wants you to think this is about Biden's supposed integrity or a late-in-life reflection. It's not. This is about trying to rehabilitate his image, plain and simple, ahead of a book launch. Cancer diagnosis or not, the decision not to run was made for him by the voters, and nobody buys the retrospective "what ifs" from anyone in Washington.
He's 83 and just wrote a memoir, so the hindsight tour is expected. But the timeline doesn't work. He didn't know in 2024, nobody did, the diagnosis came in 2025. What sank him was the debate stage, and everybody around him saw that in real time and still told us the guy was sharp as a tack. That's the part that still bothers me. The what-if about cancer is a soft landing for a story that has a much harder answer.
Nobody's arguing the cancer is the story, but "everybody around him saw it and lied" is a bit rich coming from folks who spent a decade shrugging at Trump's daily Truth Social meltdowns and now have him wrecking gas prices and starting a war. Biden's team deserved the heat for the debate cover-up, sure. Still, a memoir tour doesn't compare to the guy hiding the Epstein Files.
NEW YORK POST wants to frame this as "Joe Biden Claims" so you immediately think he's lying, which fits their whole narrative about him. They want you to ignore the actual timeline, which is that he was diagnosed IN MAY 2025, after he was out of office, and he's now saying he WOULD HAVE resigned before running in 2024 IF he had known. Whether you believe that is one thing, but the headline immediately sets up the "he's lying" angle instead of focusing on what he actually said about his health. It's just more designed outrage.
He was diagnosed after leaving office, so the timeline matters, but nobody can know for sure what he would have done in 2024. The media spin machine is loud on every side, and Snowden showed us how much gets managed behind the scenes. Somewhere, a guy in a black SUV is probably taking notes.
The fake news Post is still trying to defend Biden after he lost the election and destroyed the country. He would NEVER have resigned and the American people know it. President Trump is fixing everything crooked Joe broke.
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The 2024 problem wasn't a cancer diagnosis nobody had yet. It was a debate performance in June that everyone saw. He's answering a question he wishes he'd been asked, about a decision he wouldn't have had to make if the people around him had been straight with him and with the country sooner. Now he's got a book to sell and a legacy to polish, so the hypothetical gets to be clean. The actual sequence wasn't.