Former President Joe Biden on Friday attended his grandson’s highschool commencement, marking his first public look since he introduced final weekend that he was recognized with prostate most cancers.
In photographs posted on Instagram by former first girl Jill Biden and the previous president’s daughter, Ashley Biden, the previous president and former first girl appeared alongside different members of the family to have fun the highschool commencement of Robert Hunter Biden II from the Salisbury Faculty in Salisbury, Connecticut.
One of many photographs posted by Jill Biden included the caption, “Proud Nana and Pop! Congratulations Hunter — we’re so pleased with you.”
In photographs Ashley Biden posted later Friday, it appeared that the previous president was additionally noticed on the airport, although it’s unclear which airport he was photographed at.
Joe Biden introduced on Sunday that he was recognized with prostate most cancers, along with his private workplace saying in a press release, “Final week, President Joe Biden was seen for a brand new discovering of a prostate nodule after experiencing rising urinary signs. On Friday he was recognized with prostate most cancers, characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”
On Tuesday, his workplace launched a second assertion, including that he had by no means been recognized with prostate most cancers previous to final week. The assertion additionally clarified that the previous president had not been examined for prostate most cancers in over a decade.
Biden’s most cancers analysis reignited debate amongst Democrats over the previous president’s age and well being, significantly as his analysis was introduced over the backdrop of the discharge of a brand new e book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson that examined Biden’s well being and cognitive talents throughout the 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Biden and his household have repeatedly defended the previous president from allegations that his cognitive or bodily well being was deteriorating whereas he was in workplace.
His granddaughter, Naomi Biden, wrote in a submit on X this week that the e book was, “a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self selling journalists out to make a fast buck.”
The e book “depends on unnamed, nameless sources pushing a self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any accountability for our present nationwide nightmare,” she added. “All of this on the expense of a person so fully good and trustworthy that it’s inconceivable for these folks to ever perceive the why or how of all of it. There are actual tales to be instructed and someday they are going to be. I believe historical past will reward the reality.”
