Senior Department of Justice official Leo Terrell has suggested that former first lady Jill Biden should face criminal charges of elder abuse because she pushed her husband, former President Joe Biden, to seek reelection despite his health issues.
While responding to a post on X that said the former first lady "knew about President Biden's health problems" but "still wanted him to run for President," Terrell, a senior counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, wrote, "Elder Abuse! Criminal Charges??" reports The New York Post Tuesday.
His comments Monday came soon after the news broke that the former president had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
Soon after the report was made, many people, including President Donald Trump, have suggested that Biden's cancer diagnosis had been hidden while he was seeking reelection and potentially before that.
Terrell also went on to repost several reactions to his comment about Jill Biden.
"Elder abuse is a form of domestic violence and Dr Biden has a lot of explaining to do about her part in defrauding the American people and taxpayers," one of the posts read. "I would never wish Joe Biden physical harm despite my personal political views; too bad his own family compromised his well-being."
In another response Terrell shared, the writer said that Biden's medical team should have discovered his cancer years ago.
"Shame on Jill & all who turned their heads & ignored this," the post read. "They indeed are guilty of elder abuse & if they have him go thru any medical procedure now, radiation or chemo, they should be shot! But they wanted the attention & status at any cost."
Many medical experts have claimed that it was "inconceivable" that Biden's cancer could have gone undetected, and Trump's oldest son, Don Jr., asked, "How did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???”
The former first lady's doctorate is in education, not in any medical profession.
Meanwhile, the president said of the diagnosis that "Somebody is not telling the facts."
Reports from Biden's annual physicals did not mention any information about whether he had received prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings while he was the president. The tests, recommended by the American Cancer Society for men older than 50, are used to detect early signs of prostate cancer.
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