The Last Lie of the Biden Presidency Was the Most Dangerous One
Robert Burgess • May 21, 2025

Let me begin with something no decent person should overlook: a diagnosis of aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer is deeply personal, painful, and terrifying — even for a former president.
For Joe Biden and his family, this isn’t political. It’s human. I offer my sincere prayers for strength, peace, and grace in whatever time he has. But I also say this: the American people deserved to know the truth much sooner.
The likely truth is this: while Joe Biden held the highest office in the land, he was living with a dangerous, aggressive form of prostate cancer that went undetected or undisclosed by the most advanced medical operation on earth — the White House Medical Unit. We now know the cancer had metastasized to his bones by the time it was identified. According to physicians, it is now being “managed,” not defeated.
This isn’t about Monday morning quarterbacking a medical diagnosis. It’s about honesty, accountability, and leadership— three things that were chronically absent during the Biden presidency. And as we look toward the 2026 midterms, voters should remember that the people who enabled this White House deception — the same Democrats who now want another term in Congress — are hoping you’ll forget it ever happened.
When the Wall Street Journal first reported earlier this year that Biden’s White House medical staff failed to identify a case of basal cell carcinoma — the most common and detectable form of skin cancer — it raised serious questions.
But now that we know he has likely been living with advanced prostate cancer, those questions become unavoidable — and damning.
How could cancer this serious — with symptoms that typically present clearly in elderly men — go unnoticed by the president’s doctors? Were symptoms ignored? Were test results withheld? Or was it all quietly managed behind the scenes, shielded from the public because of political optics?
If you’re not asking who was really in charge during Biden’s final year in office, you’re not paying attention.
This diagnosis doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
It follows a presidency marked by secrecy, staged optics, and message control so tight it made the Obama years look like amateur hour. Remember the Hur Report? The Department of Justice’s own special counsel described Biden as “a sympathetic, elderly man with a poor memory” — and declined to prosecute based on his cognitive state.
The American people saw it too. The cue cards, the staged interviews, the gaffes, the visible confusion, the refusal to take a cognitive exam. Time and again, the Biden White House denied what the country could see with its own eyes: that the president was declining, physically and mentally, before the world.
If you believe for one second that no one in his administration knew something was wrong, then I have a train station in Delaware to sell you.
The presidency isn’t just about policies. It’s about decisions. It’s about presence. It’s about strength — and the clarity to lead, especially when no one else can.
But when a commander-in-chief is living with untreated, metastasizing cancer, the implications are enormous. If Biden wasn’t making the big decisions, who was?
Ron Klain? Jill Biden? Kamala Harris?
It’s now painfully clear that Biden was more figurehead than leader by the end. And that’s not a partisan swipe — it’s a national security concern. Because when a leader is ill and those around him choose to hide it, the problem isn’t just the disease. It’s the cover-up.
And it’s always the cover-up that defines legacies.
It must be said plainly: if Donald J. Trump had been president while battling metastatic cancer — or even suspected of it — every single network, newspaper, and digital rag in America would have been wall-to-wall with calls for resignation, 25th Amendment hearings, and psychological warfare from the press.
But Biden?
His medical memos were treated as gospel. His press team handed out pre-scripted narratives. And the same White House press corps that screamed at Trump over Tylenol stayed silent in the face of an actual, aggressive cancer diagnosis that had spread beyond the prostate.
Why? Because the media wasn’t interested in truth. It was interested in protecting the Biden presidency — no matter the cost to public trust.
President Trump is back in the Oval Office. Voters knew what was at stake in 2024 and made the right call. But while Joe Biden is out of power, the infrastructure of denial that surrounded him still thrives within the Democratic Party.
Many of the same Democrats who kept silent during Biden’s decline now want another two or six years in Congress. They’re on the air, sending mailers, pretending like they didn’t help sell America a presidency in slow-motion collapse.
The 2026 midterms aren’t about policy debates or partisanship. They’re about reckoning. They’re about whether we reward complicity or restore credibility.
Because make no mistake: the people who knew — and chose not to tell you — want to be reelected.
Under President Trump, Americans are once again seeing what honest, decisive leadership looks like. Whether it’s confronting Big Pharma, protecting our border, or standing up to Russia, the era of obfuscation is over.
But to keep it that way, we need more than just the White House. We need a Congress that tells the truth, demands accountability, and never again allows a sick, unfit figurehead to sit behind the Resolute Desk while unelected staffers pull the strings.
That starts in 2026 — with voters refusing to give power back to those who abused it.
Joe Biden’s metastatic prostate cancer is a tragic chapter in a presidency already defined by cover-ups, contradictions, and collapses. It’s not a failure of his body alone. It’s a failure of character, courage, and institutional honesty — from the Oval Office to the DNC to the New York Times.
And now, the American people have one more piece of proof that they were never given the full story.
Let this diagnosis be the final straw in the narrative Democrats tried to sell: that Biden was fine, that nothing was wrong, and that critics were just playing politics.
They weren’t. We weren’t.
We were trying to warn the country.
In 2026, let’s make sure we never again let deception hold power. Let’s expand our majorities. Let’s elect leaders who deal in truth — even when it’s hard. And let’s never allow another presidency to hide behind a curtain of silence, while the people are left to suffer the consequences.
Rob Burgess is a national Republican strategist and Chief Executive Officer at Connector, Inc. — a boutique government relations and political affairs firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Dallas, Texas.