Donald Trump Jr. wants accountability after Sunday's announcement that former President Joe Biden has prostate cancer.
Trump Jr. resurfaced a speech Biden gave in 2022 in which he said he had cancer. In the clip, Biden said, "That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer."
"Joe says he had cancer 2 years ago & everyone said it's a gaffe," Trump Jr. wrote on social media. "When he clearly had dementia, everyone said he's lucid. 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!"
At the time, the White House said Biden was referring to a prior diagnosis for nonmelanoma skin cancer, which had been removed.
The Republican National Committee picked up on the gaffe in 2022, sharing it on social media, but was dismissed by fact checkers.
"How dumb is this tweet?" Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler wrote. "Check out Biden's medical report. Before he became president, he'd had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure?"
Trump Jr. previously accused the Biden family of covering up his cancer diagnosis, sharing a post from a doctor questioning the timing.
"What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss Stage 5 metastatic cancer, or is this yet another cover-up???" Trump Jr. wrote.
Jill Biden, Joe Biden's wife, is not a medical doctor, having received her doctorate in education.
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