CNN host describes timing of Biden’s cancer announcement as ‘extraordinary’

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CNN host describes timing of Biden’s ******* announcement as ‘extraordinary’

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host and media pundit

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has questioned the timing of former President

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’s announcement on Sunday that he has been

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, calling it “extraordinary” as the news coincides with a series of negative stories about the Democrat’s final years in the White House.

Biden, 82, received the diagnosis on Friday, according to a spokesperson, after doctors discovered a “small nodule” on his prostate that required additional evaluation and subsequently determined that the ******* is “high grade” and has spread to the bone.

His representative said the former president and his family are currently “reviewing treatment options” with physicians.

“The timing is just extraordinary,” Stelter told his network colleague Jessica Dean in response to the development.

Jessica Dean and Brian Stelter discuss Joe Biden’s ******* diagnosis on CNN on Sunday May 18 2025 (CNN)

“Biden learned of the diagnosis Friday. Well, what was the biggest Biden story on Friday? It was the release of those excruciating audio excerpts from his conversations with Robert Hur back in 2023.”

“You have that as one element of the timing here,” Stelter continued. “And then you have this book coming out… one of the biggest political books in several years.”

He was referring to the leaking of audio on Friday from Biden’s 2023 interview with

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special counsel Robert Hur about allegations that he improperly stored classified documents at his Delaware home, which revealed the president struggling to remember key dates and details, having to be prompted by his lawyers and speaking in a hoarse, whispering voice.

The release of Hur’s report on the interview in February 2024, in which he described Biden as a

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caused uproar among liberals at the time, who saw it as a calculated attack on the president and an attempt to encourage the perception that he was in a state of cognitive decline in order to boost

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’s rival presidential campaign.

The book in question is the forthcoming Original Sin by Dean’s fellow network anchor,

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and Axios reporter Alex Thompson. It aims to illuminate the conversations behind the scenes that led to the president’s historic decision last July to drop out of the 2024 race. This decision paved the way for his Vice President

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to run in his stead and, ultimately, lose to Trump in November.

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Joe Biden reflects on the death of his friend, former president Jimmy Carter, on December 29 2024 (AP)

Prior to the book’s publication, Biden appeared to be attempting to reassert control over the narrative surrounding his legacy. He gave a major interview to the BBC earlier this month and appeared on ABC’s The View alongside his wife, former first lady Dr.

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, much to the annoyance of Democratic strategists keen to move on from their party’s humbling election loss.

Stelter was not the only pundit to note the timing of the announcement:

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activist

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wrote on X that she believed it was a

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to shield Biden from criticism arising from Tapper and Thompson’s book.

Others have reacted more sympathetically to the news, however.

President Trump said he was

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and that he and his wife

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“extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”

Former president

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, whom Biden served as vice president for two terms between 2009 and 2017, paid tribute to his friend’s own

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since his son Beau Biden died in 2015, while Harris praised him as a

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