This weekend, it was announced that former President Joe Biden has just been diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer with metastasis to the bone. Let's begin with what should be obvious: We should all be hoping for Biden's swift and full recovery,

From Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump, examples abound of presidential maladies being minimized or kept secret.

I’m truly sorry that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. But the Biden news that’s been dominating headlines, exciting columnists, lighting up social media, and grinding up endless podcast hours has been something else: a so-called “cover-up” of the extent of Biden’s declining cognition before he resigned.

Despite accusations that former President Joe Biden’s team used the cancer announcement as a distraction, a growing number of Democrats and Republicans are questioning whether Biden was

Those who have read “Original Sin” say that it does not contain any bombshells. What it offers is a detailed account of the systematic effort by family and advisors to conceal the truth from the American people, and calls out the cowardly Democratic leaders who knew Biden was not up to a second term but were afraid to cross him.

Yet Republicans are eagerly turning the issue of Biden’s pardons into a political football, even if they lack the authority to do anything about them. James Comer, GOP chair of the House Oversight Committee, has vowed that he will launch an investigation while Ed Martin, Trump’s new pardons attorney, has promised the same.

Democratic strategist Paul Begala said it was a “tragedy” that Biden ran for re-election and there had to be “accountability” for the party’s decisions ahead of the vote. But he did not think the debate around the former president’s health would be a factor in the 2026 midterm elections or the 2028 presidential race.

Tapper‘s book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” co-authored with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, will be available to purchase on May 20. Just one day ahead of its release, former President Joe Biden’s granddaughter tore into what she called a “silly book.”

The criticism, and self-criticism, comes as a new book — “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson — blames Democrats’ defeat in large part on Biden’s aides who, it asserts, hid the extent of his decline.

Ex-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly blasted former President Biden, calling him a “zombie” while in office in the wake of revelations about his mental decline during the final few