Joe Biden’s cancer comment at former Massachusetts power plant resurfaces, goes viral

A video clip from a news conference that Joe Biden held in Massachusetts has resurfaced and gone viral in the aftermath of the former president s grim prostate cancer identification In a visit to Brayton Point the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset on July Biden remarked That s why I and so damn a large number of other people I grew up with have cancer The former president was referring to the impacts of oil trash on his home state of Delaware and the White House at the time connected the comment to how Biden had skin cancer removed before his presidency Critics including Donald Trump Jr however are arguing that the footage from the Bay State news conference is evidence that the former administration covered up Biden s fitness decline Joe says he had cancer years ago everyone noted it s a gaffe Trump Jr wrote in a social media post on Monday Now that he s no longer useful they re all shocked that they missed it Everyone was in on the cover-up Who was running the country We need accountability In the hours following the July news conference Andrew Bates a White House spokesperson at the time revealed Biden was referring to the publicly disclosed fact that he had skin cancer removed before he became president In a November memo summarizing Biden s medical Dr Kevin O Connor Biden s physician for more than a decade acknowledged that Biden had several localized non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency These lesions were utterly excised with clear margins the assessment continued O Connor linked Biden s skin cancer to sun exposure though the former president suggested emissions from oil refineries as the cause Biden s prostate cancer is an aggressive form his office revealed on Sunday Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness using what s known as a Gleason figure The scores range from to with and prostate cancers behaving more aggressively Biden s office noted his points was suggesting his cancer is among the the bulk aggressive Dr Ezekiel Emanuel a former member of Biden s transition club disclosed on MSNBC that the former president likely had the cancer for maybe even a decade He added it s surprising Biden didn t test for prostate cancer and now it s in the bone He had it while he was president He likely had it at the start of his presidency in Emanuel reported Majority White House doctors would recommend getting the test The identification became inhabitants just days before the publishing of a book dubbed Original Sin President Biden s Decline Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again co-authored by CNN s Jake Tapper and Axios Alex Thompson In an interview with NPR on Tuesday Tapper detailed how Biden s aides hid the former president s decline a subject that he admitted he and other media members failed to assessment on adequately In his July news conference in Massachusetts Biden pledged to fight conditions change choosing Brayton Point as the embodiment of the transition to clean power that he sought but struggled to realize The property had been slated for a million offshore wind cable plant improvement project but its Italian developer The Prysmian Group backed out in January The company declared it wouldn t purchase the land needed for the effort days before Trump regained office During the July news conference Biden recounted growing up in Claymont Delaware a town situated in a region that he reported had more oil refineries than Houston and how his family tried to combat the impurity And guess what The first frost you knew what was happening the former president commented You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window That s why I and so damn multiple other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation The Associated Press contributed to this description