A former Fox News contributor now serving as a senior counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights suggested that former First Lady Jill Biden could potentially face criminal charges.
The comment came in the wake of Sunday’s announcement from Joe Biden’s office revealing that the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The disclosure has fueled speculation among many, including medical experts and physicians, who believe that Biden, his medical team, and close advisers may have concealed the diagnosis.
Among them is President Donald Trump, who said on Monday that “somebody is not telling the facts.”
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Hours earlier, Leo Terrell of the DOJ went so far as to suggest that Jill Biden should – or at least could – be prosecuted.
Reposting a tweet from a conservative internet personality, Terrell wrote, “Elder Abuse! Criminal Charges??”
Several top physicians and medical experts have expressed astonishment that Biden’s prostate cancer was not found much sooner.
Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, according to a statement from his personal office on Sunday.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement noted.
It added, “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management.”
Biden and his family “are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” according to CNN.
Not long after the news broke, leading experts began posing questions about the diagnosis. Donald Trump Jr. posted a screengrab of a statement from physician Dr. Steven Quay, who called prostate cancer “the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.”
Quay noted that routine blood tests recommended for men over 50 indicate how rapidly cancer can grow.
“It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency,” wrote Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management, and economics at Yale.
He pointed out that the prostate-specific antigen test would have indicated he had cancer “for some time before this diagnosis,” considering its aggressive nature.
Dr. Vin Gupta, an NBC News medical contributor, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough on Monday that Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush all have records confirming easily accessible prostate exams.
But there is no record of Biden receiving one, and his past medical records are not accessible — only vague summaries — leading to more speculation that his cancer, along with his diminished mental condition, was being hidden from Americans.
Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel also seemed to question the odd nature of Biden’s diagnosis announcement.
“This was found by physical examination by a prostate exam,” he said Sunday evening. “A lot of times, we find an elevation in prostate-specific antigen, PSA, and then we go after it.”
He further noted that he tests all of his male patients who are over the age of 45. Siegel explained that when a test shows elevated PSA levels, he typically orders an MRI immediately, followed by a decision on whether a biopsy is needed.
In Biden’s case, however, doctors proceeded with a biopsy only after he reported experiencing urinary symptoms — a development Siegel noted can indicate that the cancer has already begun to spread.
“I mean, he must have had the best possible care here,” Siegel said. “I’m a little taken aback that it’s this far advanced.”
