AXIOS – Sen. Ron Johnson is launching an investigation into former President Biden’s health.
The news of Biden’s cancer diagnosis as well as new revelations about the White House’s efforts to hide the former president’s deteriorating health has reignited [concerns] from the GOP about Biden’s fitness to carry out the duties of commander in chief.
Johnson told Axios he plans to request information from a “couple dozen people” who had or should have “direct contact” with Biden as soon as Wednesday evening.
“We have to. I mean, who was running the government,” Johnson told Axios …
ALSO: Biden’s cancer diagnosis draws sympathy — and suspicion
Marc Caputo, Alex Thompson, Tal Axelrod, May 20, 2025
AXIOS – Former President Biden’s disclosure that he had Stage 4 prostate cancer was quickly met with sympathy late Sunday. By Monday morning, the questions — from Democrats and Republicans alike — had begun.
Why it matters: The timing of Biden’s announcement, coupled with the way his handlers tried to cover up his health issues in the past, fueled speculation about how long he’d known about the cancer.
People in both parties, whether they love Joe Biden or despise him, wondered whether the announcement was timed to change the subject after a week of reports about his physical and mental deterioration when he was president.
Those reports included recordings, first posted Friday by Axios, of Biden being interviewed by prosecutors in 2023 about his handling of classified documents. Biden had such difficulty recalling events that prosecutor Robert Hur later described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Zoom in: On Monday, medical experts didn’t exactly calm the suspicions about Biden’s cancer diagnosis — even as they said it was treatable and that he could live several years with the disease.
“He’s had this for many years, maybe even a decade, growing there and spreading,” Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist who was a Biden White House COVID adviser, told the stunned hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Emanuel later told CNN that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test used to detect prostate cancer isn’t always reliable. Emanuel and other doctors noted that Biden, 82, is well beyond the 55-70 recommended age range for prostate cancer screening.
But given how thoroughly presidents’ health is scrutinized, it would be surprising if Biden hadn’t been tested before his recent symptoms appeared, Emanuel said on “Morning Joe”: “It’s a little strange” …
