The news that the former president Joe biden An aggressive prostate cancer was diagnosedcame as a surprise on Sunday. And further heated the discussions about the health state of the former president in the last months of his term. While good wishesSpeculations and demands for further details are out of hand, some of the most prominent voices of the Maga rights can hardly wait to make bidens diagnosis a political secondary show.
Political reactions and speculation of the Maga movement
“What I would like to know is how Dr. Jill Biden was able to overlook a metastatic cancer in the stage. Donald Trump Jr.the eldest son of President Donald Trump, wrote that on x And pinned the contribution to the beginning of his account.
Trump Jr.
Trump Jr. mocks the former first lady, who has a doctoral title, but has no medical conclusion, for a long time for it to describe herself as a doctor. His contribution from Sunday triggered a wave of comments in which he was told that Jill Biden is not a doctor. Trump Jr. replied on Monday. “Sometimes I forget that part of the mental disorder of left -wing extremism is not to understand sarcasm,” he wrote. “For all confused liberals out there: I am very aware that Jill Biden is a wrong doctor. Not real.”
Benny Johnson and his medically wrong claims
Maga-Youtuber Benny Johnson, who has millions of followers on his various social media accounts, claimed that the diagnosis was “the most dangerous cover-up in the history of the presidency”.
Johnson – who is not a doctor – claimedthat “advanced prostate cancer needs more than ten years to develop until the stage in which bidges were diagnosed”. And that “a simple blood test or a prostate examination leads to almost 100 % precise results”.
“They knew. They lied. And they covered it up. For the sake of power. The responsible persons have to be held accountable. That is evil,” added Johnson.
Matt Walsh calls for congress hearings
The right -wing commentator Matt Walsh from “The Daily Wire” called for an investigation. ‘The congress must finally do something’, wrote He on X. “A comprehensive investigation. All employees and civil servants of biden have to be put before a hearing. They have to be put under oath. Jill Biden. His doctors. Everyone. Who was involved in this cover -up? How deep did you go? And above all: Who has the country actually ruled in the past four years?”
End Wokeness mocked diagnosis on social media
End Wokeness, a prominent Maga X account with 3.6 million followers, joined Jr.. And mocked the diagnosis: “‘We just discovered cancer in stage 4’ is the new ‘he just stutters’.”
It was not just Maga-Influencer who reacted with speculation and conspiracy theories.
Republicans Warren Davidson doubts about the timing
The Republican MP Warren Davidson (Ohio) said On Monday at Fox Business that he wishes all the best. But not believe that he only found out about the cancer diagnosis last week. And that he suspected that bids and his team have kept this kept for “strategic reasons”.
Maga-influencers use diagnosis for mobilization
Ed Martin, the former interim US prosecutor for Washington, DC, whom Trump recently appointed the new Ministry of Justice. wrote On Sunday: “The integrity of the American pardoning system requires that we examine the pardoning of bidies and responsibilities. We will get to the bottom of it. Rely on us.”
JD vance questions Biden’s official ability
Vice President JD Vance also turned over after he had wished bidges. “Whether or at a later point in time the right time for this discussion is, we have to be really honest, whether the former president was able to exercise his office”, he said on Monday.
“I blame people in his environment,” said Vance. And wondered: “Why did the American people not have a better sense of their health?”
Influence on the 2024 presidential election campaign
The diagnosis comes at a time when bidens mental skills under precise observation stand. Shortly before the publication of a book that examines the decline of the former president and its effects on the 2024 election cycle. The book – Original sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson – draws a devastating picture of bidens intellectual decay and the measures that his team took to cover up this.
How the book influences the health discourse
Maga commentators now claim that the cancer diagnosis was also kept secret. But even Fox News admitted that the sudden discovery of cancer in the late stage and aggressive types of cancer often occurs even in patients who regularly have preventive examinations. Dr. Nicole Saphier, an employee of the broadcaster, told the moderators of “America’s Newsroom” that it was “not unusual” that patients develop metastatic cancer despite preventive examinations. And that “some types of prostate cancer are not an increase in the [prostataspezifischen Antigens] go hand in hand and “he could have received a wrong negative result”.
Effects on public discourse on health and politics
Nevertheless, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who has appointed bidges in his Covid 19 advisory board, opposite MSNBC that bidges have probably “suffered from cancer for many years”. And that he is “surprised” that this was not diagnosed earlier. He added that although “many people recommend not to do any prostate-antigen-test after 70”, but bidding is a person of public life and it was “a little surprising” that he did not do this. “I looked at the documents. There is no evidence that he did a prostate-antigen test at the time of the publication of his health and medical documents,” said Emanuel.
Health state as a political issue in the election campaign
The public uncertainty about the diagnosis and its severity did not prevent the Maga supporters from mocking the former president, while loudly demanding an investigation of the time of time by the congress and claiming a nefarious cover-up. President Donald Trump could at least hold back. “Melania and I are sad about the latest medical diagnosis by Joe Biden”, wrote He on Truth Social. “We speak Jill and the family our deepest sympathy. And wish Joe a quick and successful recovery.”