The revelation came Sunday, when Biden’s personal office shocked the public by disclosing that what had previously been described as a “small nodule” is, in fact, Stage 4 prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), who served as physician to the president from 2013 to 2018, told the Free Beacon that Biden may not have much time left.
“This is not my area of specialty, but I have spoken to multiple urologists since this came out, and the general consensus is like, you know, it could be 12 to 18 months,” Jackson said. “Hopefully it’s longer than that, and I hope that they’re able to treat this effectively, and, you know, he lives many, many more years. But it’s far advanced.”
Jackson told the Washington Free Beacon that he routinely screened both Presidents Obama and Trump for prostate cancer and believes that Biden may have received his diagnosis well before the public announcement on Sunday.
“Every year I did an exam for President Obama, and every year that I did an exam for President Trump, I checked the [prostate-specific antigen],” he said. “We screened for prostate cancer. I think there’s a probability here that they knew [Biden] had prostate cancer some time ago and just didn’t tell the American people.”
Jackson also pointed out that, unlike many other cancers, prostate cancer can often be treated without the noticeable outward side effects typically associated with chemotherapy. “Treating prostate cancer with radiation or something like that, it doesn’t require you to be an inpatient,” he said.
“I mean, people get that done as outpatients all the time. They go in, they spend a couple hours in the doctor’s office, and they’re released the same day. So, it’s absolutely conceivable that he could have been diagnosed and could have been treated without the American people knowing, if his doctor chose not to say anything and family chose not to say anything,” he added.
Jackson squarely blamed Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s longtime physician and family friend. “Dr. Kevin O’Connor either lied to the American people or he’s incompetent,” he told the Free Beacon. “One of the two.”