A Former White House aide has admitted he deliberately concealed his concerns over Joe Biden’s declining health during the 2024 presidential campaign because he desperately ‘wanted him to f*****g win’ re-election.
Jon Lovett, an ex-Obama administration speechwriter and co-host of the popular liberal podcast ‘Pod Save America’, made the shocking confession during an appearance on Jon Stewart’s ‘The Weekly Show’ podcast.
The 42-year-old political commentator told Stewart and his fellow Pod Save America host Jon Favreau that he chose to keep his worries about Biden’s physical and mental condition to himself rather than share them publicly with his audience.
‘I remember feeling I want to talk about this as a huge liability. To talk about this is something Joe Biden can overcome, but I’m not going to go so far as to say, ‘I think Joe Biden must drop out. He is too old to be president,’ Lovett said on the podcast.
‘A, because I didn’t know exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but B, if Joe Biden is the candidate, I want him to f****** win.’
Lovett, who served as a speechwriter in the Obama White House from 2009 to 2011, claimed he was terrified that voicing his genuine concerns would give Republican opponents an upper hand.
He was afraid ‘having the words we’re saying taken out of context and all of a sudden be part of the case against Joe Biden from the right – that would use any person criticizing Joe Biden from the left as a weapon against him.’
‘So it was about being honest about Joe Biden’s age as a liability while knowing that if he is the nominee, I want to be clear that I thought it was important to make sure we did everything we could to reelect him,’ Lovett claimed.
This comes as medical experts have declared it ‘inconceivable’ that former President Joe Biden’s ‘aggressive’ form of prostate cancer was not caught earlier by doctors.
The 82-year-old’s office announced the devastating diagnosis last Sunday, saying the cancer had spread to his bones and his family were reviewing treatment options.
His cancer was given a Gleason score of 9 and a Grade Group of 5, a dire stage of the rapidly-spreading disease.
The diagnosis came days after doctors found a ‘small nodule’ on his prostate.
Many officials expressed heartfelt concern for the former president, with Donald Trump saying that he and First Lady Melania wished Biden ‘a fast and successful recovery.’
Donald Trump Jr appeared to break the political truce just hours after the announcement.
He questioned if there was a ‘coverup’ by sharing a screengrab of a post from physician Dr. Steven Quay, who called prostate cancer ‘the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.’
Upon hearing the news, some of America’s top doctors also questioned how a former president could be diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer – which can be detected early with routine bloodwork recommended for all men over the age of 50.
‘It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency,’ wrote Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management and economics at Yale.
He noted that the test for prostate-specific antigen would have shown he had cancer ‘for some time before this diagnosis’, given how aggressive it is.
In February 2024, when Biden was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, his longtime physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor deemed him ‘fit to serve’ following a routine physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Dr. Forman noted that Biden ‘must have had a PSA test numerous times before’ and concluded the late-stage diagnosis is ‘odd.’
In a follow-up post, the doctor questioned whether Biden had been through screening in the last 12 years and if he ‘had a normal PSA prior to [age] 70?’
‘It’s just so odd to discover this with bone [metastasis] in a man of his stature and [with his] access to care,’ Forman concluded.