EVEN AS HE FIGHTS CANCER, BIDEN OWES AMERICANS AN EXPLANATION. Former President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he is suffering from advanced metastatic prostate cancer landed awkwardly amid a debate about Biden’s physical and mental infirmity during his years as president. All of a sudden, people who were arguing that it was a scandal that Biden served when he was simply not up to the job stopped talking about that and instead wished the former president a speedy recovery.

But the news created a new question. Did Biden tell the truth about his health when he was president? Did he know he had cancer and conceal it from the public?