WASHINGTON — Stunned longtime aides to former President Joe Biden told The Post Monday that his stage 4 prostate cancer should have been caught long before it spread to his bones — and that they fear concern about public reaction delayed a possible diagnosis.
“I do believe that they felt like something was going on, and were worried about it and kind of hedged around it for a little bit,” said one White House staffer who worked in close proximity to Biden, 82.
Unlike the apparently concerted coverup of Biden’s declining mental fitness, the sources suspect willful ignorance of his condition out of fear of the effect that a prognosis would have on last year’s election — in which Biden repeatedly refused to bow out to allow Democrats an open contest for his successor.