The Joe Biden Story

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The horrible news about Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis—coming as it did amid the release of a new book about his infirmity as president—raises even more questions about who knew what and when. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.0	Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.5	Oh, for the best.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.7	Today is Monday, May 19th, 2025.
0:31.4	I'm John Pudhor.
0:32.2	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:34.8	With me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:37.9	Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Washington Commentary Columnist me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.
0:38.8	Hi, John.
0:44.5	Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Cognetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John. And social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John.
0:49.3	So, I'm going to dispense with niceties because I don't like being false.
0:57.2	It is, of course, awful to hear that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that is metastasized, and that's a terrible thing.
1:05.8	But I'm deeply suspicious of the timing of the revelation of this,
1:12.1	and not only deeply suspicious, but I believe as somebody who has had family members
1:17.4	who have had prostate cancer and elderly people and all of that,
1:22.6	the story that we are being told about this makes no sense whatsoever,
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