WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance stated Monday that former President Joe Biden was not in “good enough health” to hold out his duties — and accused the forty sixth president’s former staffers of conserving his well being below wraps — at some point after information of Biden’s prostate most cancers analysis was revealed.
“We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,” Vance advised reporters on Air Power Two earlier than returning to Washington from Rome.
“Whether it was doctors or whether it was staffers around the former president, I don’t think he was able to do a good job for the American people.”
Vance, 40, insisted his criticism didn’t stem from political variations with Biden — however solely from an absence of transparency surrounding the Democrat’s well being.
Biden aides have lengthy been accused of masking up the then-president’s fading cognitive skills — together with by limiting his public schedule, together with press availability; forcing him to board Air Power One utilizing shorter stairs; and outfitting him in additional comfy footwear to stop stumbles and falls.
Biden’s workplace issued an announcement Sunday revealing the 82-year-old had been recognized with an “aggressive” type of prostate most cancers that had unfold to his bones. The most cancers “appears to be hormone sensitive,” the assertion learn, which means that the remedy will be manageable.
The timing of the assertion made some docs query how the most cancers might have been missed for thus lengthy, on condition that Biden obtained annual physicals as president.
“In some ways I blame him less than I blame the people around him,” Vance stated, noting that “of course we wish the best for the former president’s health.”
“Why didn’t the American people have a better sense of his health picture?” the veep requested.
“This is serious stuff. This is a guy who carries around the nuclear football for the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. This is not child’s play,” Vance went on.
President Trump issued an announcement Sunday saying he and first girl Melania Trump have been “saddened” to listen to about Biden’s medical analysis.
“We extend our warmest and best whishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,” Trump, 78, wrote on Fact Social.
