FROM NEW YORK POST: Former President Joe Biden, wearing a seemingly fresh bandage on his head, told Nebraska Democrats Friday that his late son should have been elected commander-in-chief in 2020, not himself, in a speech ripping President Trump.
Biden, who turns 83 on Nov. 20, appeared at the event wearing a seemingly new bandage on the top-left portion of his head. The reason for the new bandage is unclear.
In August, Biden underwent Mohs surgery, a procedure used to treat skin cancer, and appeared in public with a large bandage – and then a healing gash – on a different part of his head.
Biden was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer earlier this year.
During his speech at the Nebraska Democratic Party’s Ben Nelson Gala, the former president talked about the 2015 death of his eldest son, Beau Biden, in his lead up to an attack on Trump.
“Folks, I know what cancer research means,” Biden said. “Cancer hits every family. It’s hit my family hard.”
“When the love of my life, my oldest son, the attorney general of the state of Delaware – who should’ve been the president, not me – volunteered to go to Iraq for a year, didn’t have to, he came back with stage four glioblastoma because he lived in a burn pit just like those guys did on 9/11, and he died.”
Biden then referenced his own battle with cancer.
“But when you get that research, research, they’re, they’re doing, when they diagnose it – in my case, I just had prostate cancer – so, and, I, uh, when you finish that round of treatment, you get to ring that bell at the end of each treatment,” he said. “Well, thank God for the doctors and nurses and incredible breakthroughs we’re making in cancer research.”
“Now, Trump and his Republican friends are cutting government funding for health care, making it more expensive,” he continued. “Why in God’s name are they doing this?”
He then hit at Trump over the shutdown, saying he’d “better get the damn government open.”
“We have a president who is deliberately making hunger worse for Americans,” he claimed, an apparent allusion to the funding lapse for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Biden went on to say that after Democrats won a majority of the state elections Tuesday, “The Democratic Party is back – not hyperbole.”
“The fact is that we had a great night in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, New York City, Georgia, Mississippi, – even in Mississippi,” he said.
Biden surmised that the election results mean voters are “sending a message to Trump and to his crowd.”
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