During Wednesday’s climate remarks, President Biden said he has cancer —and the White House had to clarify.
“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden said, while discussing global warming and describing emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del.
Watch the clip below:
Biden: "You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer."pic.twitter.com/IvCvprDKJV
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 20, 2022
“White House spokesman Andrew Bates referred The Post to a tweet from Washington Post columnist Glenn Kessler, who noted that Biden had ‘non-melanoma skin cancers’ before he took office,” The New York Post reports.
Form The New York Post:
Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, issued a health report last year that didn’t refer to the president as suffering from any current cancers.
O’Connor’s report attributes Biden’s skin cancer to time in the sun, rather than the result of exposure by the fossil fuels industry.
“It is well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth,” O’Connor wrote of his patient, a former swimming pool lifeguard.
“He has had several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency. These lesions were completely excised, with clear margins,” the doctor wrote.
President Biden is 79 years old —the oldest President ever. Both his physical and mental health have been under scrutiny.
Continue reading over at The New York Post:
Joe Biden says he has cancer in possible gaffe https://t.co/ITa5F7Q8zw pic.twitter.com/kKVstKd1Sj
— New York Post (@nypost) July 20, 2022
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