President Donald Trump has little sympathy for his predecessor despite a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office announced two weeks ago. Given the advanced nature of the disease, many Republicans have speculated that Biden has had cancer for some time. Trump himself suggested a cover-up the day after the announcement, stating that “somebody is not telling the facts.”
On Friday, Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office, where Fox News’s Peter Doocy tossed the president a softball about the losses the administration has taken in court.
“So many of the things that you’re trying to do are held up in court right now,” Doocy said. “If the courts are gonna have so much influence over U.S. policy, do you wish you would’ve just become a judge instead?”
Trump chuckled and embarked on a nearly five-minute whirlwind response that concluded with an attack on Biden’s handling of the border.
“They allowed them to come in,” the president said. “One thing I can’t figure out is what would an administration– what were they thinking when they allowed millions of people from prisons all over the world, not just from South America, Venezuela, but all over the world, from the Congo in Africa? Hundreds of people, thousands of people from the Congo, rough, rough prisoners from
Then, without mentioning Biden’s diagnosis, Trump said that people should not feel sorry for the ex-president.
“And I don’t believe it was Joe Biden,” he continued. “Look, he’s been a sort of a moderate person over his lifetime. Not a smart person. But a somewhat vicious person, I will say. If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel so sorry, because he’s vicious, what he did with his political opponent and all of the people that he hurt. He hurt a lot of people. And so, I really don’t feel sorry for him.”
Trump’s remarks were a far cry from his statement in the immediate aftermath of Biden’s diagnosis.
“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis,” he wrote. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”
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