Hunter Biden mentioned former President Joe Biden resides in ache as he battles cancer, however that hasn’t stopped him from “doing his factor.”
“The most cancers has unfold, is metastasized into his bones, and additional, it’s totally painful, and it’s totally debilitating in lots of respects,” Hunter Biden mentioned of his father in an interview with the BBC. “However he is nonetheless on the market. He is nonetheless doing his factor.”
Joe Biden’s workplace introduced in Might 2025 that he had been identified with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to the bone. The prognosis got here after a small nodule was discovered within the former president’s prostate after “a routine bodily examination,” his workplace mentioned.
President Joe Biden, proper, accompanied by his grandson Beau Biden and son Hunter Biden stroll in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 29, 2024.
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Prostate most cancers is the most typical most cancers and the second main reason for most cancers loss of life amongst males within the U.S., in keeping with the Nationwide Institutes of Well being.
Joe Biden has carried out few media appearances since leaving workplace however has appeared at some public occasions and delivered keynote speeches.
Hunter Biden mentioned his father’s most cancers battle is “actually, actually arduous and it is actually unhappy to look at” of his father’s situation. “The one factor that I say about my dad, about his well being proper now, is I want he would complain extra as a result of it is not good.”
However he mentioned Joe Biden is motivated by his perception “within the precise reverse of … that we’re as polarized as we predict we’re.”
“As a result of when he ran in 2020, 81 million individuals, extra individuals than have ever voted for an additional particular person for president within the historical past of this nation got here out and determined that they had been going to return issues to normalcy,” Hunter Biden mentioned. “Nicely, we bought to get again within the struggle once more. And so long as he is alive, I promise you he’ll proceed to struggle.”
Hunter Biden referred to as his father “the rock” in his household.
“He has been there for every one in every of us in a approach that’s arduous for me to even probably articulate and clarify,” he mentioned. “And no matter you consider his politics or the selections that he made, I can inform you this: He is the very best father, the very best husband, the very best grandfather of anybody that I’ve ever examine, heard about, and even seen in a film.”
