CNN analyst Brian Stelter has questioned the timing of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis — insisting it’s “extraordinary” the news broke just as the former president was battling an onslaught of criticism over his mental decline while in the White House.
“The timing … is just extraordinary,” the anchor said on the left-leaning network Sunday.
“We know from the statement from his personal spokesman that Biden learned of the diagnosis on Friday.
“Well, what was the biggest Biden story on Friday? It was the release of those audio excerpts from his conversations with Robert Hur back in 2023,” he noted.
The harrowing audio captured Biden rambling through an interview with special counsel Robert Hur in October 2023 — repeatedly losing his train of thought and struggling to recall key details of his political and personal life, including when his son died.
“On the day that story was breaking, Biden was facing this personal news,” Stelter said.
“So you have that as one element of the timing here.”
The CNN personality also pointed to the release of a bombshell book by his network colleague Jake Tapper, which includes troubling accounts of Biden’s mental and physical decline, as well as apparent efforts to cover it up.
“And then you have… this book coming out, one of the biggest political books in several years,” he said.
Stelter’s questioning about the timing comes as medical experts say it is “inconceivable” that the cancer was not caught earlier — while first son Don Trump Jr. even suggested it’s is part of a “cover-up.”
