The book said that the Biden family wanted to keep Beau Biden’s cancer diagnosis a secret and misled the media about his condition.

Biden's health, both physical and mental, was discussed at length during the 2024 presidential election cycle, more recently after excerpts from a new book by CNN 's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, were published by multiple media outlets.

In May 2025, Donald Trump Jr. questioned on X how "Dr. Jill Biden" missed former President Joe Biden's aggressive metastatic cancer. Former U.S. first lady Jill Biden holds a doctorate in education. She is not a medical doctor. Donald Trump Jr. later wrote on X that he meant his comment to be sarcastic.

JD Vance has found himself in hot water today (19 May) after issuing a controversial response to news of Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis. Biden's team made the sad announcement of his latest health woes last night with an emotional statement, describing the 82-year-old former president's variation of the disease as 'aggressive'.

The president's son suggested there was a cover-up after former president Joe Biden announced his prostate cancer diagnosis.