Former Democrat presidential candidate Dean Phillips said Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis was released to deflect negative reports about his White House term.

Biden’s office announced Sunday that the former president had been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. The news came after news stories and books in recent weeks focused on how Democrats and the mainstream media ignored Biden’s physical limitations and declining mental acuity during his presidency.

Phillips, a former Minnesota congressman who challenged Biden for the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination, said the timing of the cancer announcement was not an accident.

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