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The Daily

A Reckoning Over Joe Biden’s Health

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few days, the health of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called into focus with the disclosure that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. At the same time, Democrats are undertaking a painful re-examination of what went wrong with Joe Biden’s campaign for re-election, and the Trump White House has released embarrassing audio of Biden being interviewed. The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer and Tyler Pager sit down to make sense of it all.

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0:00.0

From New York Times, I'm Michael Muboro. This is the Daily.

0:06.6

So it's just amazing how much that Joe Biden has been in the news over the last few days for all the wrong reasons.

0:12.3

For the past few days.

0:13.9

Damaging new details tonight about former President Biden, a new book alleges serious concerns about his mental acuity.

0:20.9

It was, quote, obvious to many at a fundraiser last summer that then President Biden did not

0:26.4

know who George Clooney was.

0:28.7

They basically were terrified that Biden was going to have to be in a wheelchair before the election.

0:35.2

Spurred on by two new books.

0:37.7

Titled original sin, President Biden's decline,

0:40.8

its cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again.

0:43.9

Three reporters wrote this book.

0:45.1

It's called 2024, how Trump retook the White House and the Democrats lost America.

0:49.3

Democrats began to undertake a painful re-examination of what went wrong with Joe Biden's presidency

0:56.6

and his campaign for re-election.

0:59.3

The Democratic Party needs to be honest.

1:01.7

It's painfully obvious.

1:02.9

President Biden should not have run.

1:04.8

And the Trump White House eagerly added fuel to the fire by releasing embarrassing audio of Biden being interviewed by a government lawyer.

1:15.3

In that audio tape, you hear President Biden rambling, unable to keep a train of thought, getting dates wrong.

1:23.2

This is adding even more fodder to accusations of a wide-ranging cover-up involving Biden's

1:28.7

inner circle, Democrats and the media.

1:30.4

Now, amid that reckoning, Biden himself has disclosed that he's been diagnosed with an

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