Already lied to health in the past?

The Life of Joe Biden is one that is not poor in blows of fate. Death and illness have always crossed his way. He had to bury two of his children, and his first wife died in a car accident. Politics not only meant well with him. Now the cancer has caught him. The prostate is affected, the disease has already scattered into the bones. The tumor can probably be checked medically – the debate no longer. A different tone has long been mixed into compassion and the wishes of recovery that are shown to the former US president. Did he really only find out about his serious illness, who is constantly examined by the best doctors? A murmur is in the air, it is fueled – of course – by its successor Donald Trump. « I am surprised that the public was not informed a long time ago, » says the president, and demands clarification as to whether bidens treated a doctor was the same doctor who had previously certified the Democrat full cognitive performance. « In both cases, a doctor was involved. Maybe it was the same doctor and someone is hiding the facts. »

There is no evidence, but the seeds of distrust falls on a fertile floor. Biden and his team apparently prepared it himself. Just in the days when the Democrat makes his cancer public, a book appeared that indicates in detail how weak, how forgetful, how struck bidges has been – and how much the team around him tried to disguise it. « Towards the end of Biden’s term of office, there were no longer many high -ranking democrats outside of his innermost circle of family and close employees who would have been of the opinion that he could cope with a second four -year term, » write the two authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (« Hybris: decay and Joe Bidens Definent decision « ). But nobody has made it public. Only bidens miserable TV debate with Trump led to things that have been slipped over for years. Tapper works for years CnnThompson for the Axios news portal, both are not suspected of being suspected of Maga.

The American trust is badly damaged

The Health of the American President has always been a political issue. The Lebarzt report is considered an annual media event, a ritual that serves the public staging. « The American president is the symbol of power that no other person has, » says Julian Müller-Kaler, head of the program for strategic foresight at the Stimson Center, an independent think tank in Washington. « A fragile leadership figure is politically unacceptable, especially when it comes to the power of the pictures. » Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, insisted that despite his disability in public without a wheelchair. Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president, suffered a stroke in office, but his wife and secretary managed to keep it secret for more than a year.

At Biden, the health decline apparently started well before the 2024 election campaign. The death of his son Beau in 2015 threw him off the track. « Beau’s death has aged, » says a long -time confidante in the book. « His shoulders looked narrower, his face lager. You could see it in his eyes. » But the use of telepromps and the support of his team helped through everyday political life. Suspenders were played down. Has this self -overestimation of Trump paved the way back to the White House?

Joe Biden’s environment wanted to force a second term

Biden himself had asserted in 2020 to want to strive for only one term. But once in power, he obviously didn’t want to leave her anymore. He believed in what should end up in the end as a legend: that only he would be able to beat Trump a second time. He saw himself as someone who had succeeded in doing a lot of his critics. « For relatives and close employees, mythology became an almost religious belief in Biden’s ability to get up again. And as in any belief, there was no skepticism, » wrote Tapper and Thompson. A narrow circle of familiar people emerged that tried to keep scratches away from this picture. Even if this went at the expense of the truth. With serious consequences.

« The trust of many people in politics and also media is now so low that stories like this is only considered a further evidence of how corrupt and lying the political elite in the USA, » says US expert Müller-Kaler. Everyone was able to see how fragile bidding was – but something else was publicly claimed. « It’s a bit like the emperor who stands naked in front of his people, but nobody speaks it. » This is at least a component why populism and Trump’s scold the political establishment.

Jill Biden was considered a driving force

Biden, now 82 years old, was the oldest president that the United States had ever had. « But the real problem was not his age as such, » write Tapper and Thomson. « It was the clearly recognizable reduction in his skills, which became more and more clear during his term. Even what the public was able to see from his ability to practice the office gave rise to concern. But what was going on behind the scenes was much worse. » Biden, it is said and so many knew it, could only work a limited number of hours a day – at 4.30 p.m. there was dinner, after that there was not much left. He had forgotten the names of employees that his wife Jill had to formulate speeches for him. He called the Chinese president a dictator and called for a change of regime in Russia. The circle of those who were still in contact with him became smaller and smaller. « Biden, his family and his team have been guided by their own interests and the fear of another term of office in Trump, and thus justified the attempt to bring a sometimes confused old man to the oval office for four years, » the authors write.

Angela Merkel played her tremor down

Only Müller-Kaler may not believe in the fight « good » against « evil ». « You must certainly consider that Biden’s environment also dealt with your own jobs, » he says. « So there was a great interest in the fact that bids stayed in office. » Therefore, the knives would usually only be cheated when the term of office has come to an end. « The debate about bidens state of health is therefore a little poverty certificate for the left in the United States, » says Müller-Kaler. « She still has no way to deal with Trump – so bidges now have to serve as to why the choice has been lost. » However, the structural problems that the Republicans had in office really went much deeper.

The Biden case may be more impressive – on the other hand, it is not unique. In Germany, too, politicians tried to disguise their fragile health. Ex-Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel gets out a severe tremor Only with enormous discipline in front of running cameras – she drank too little, it said afterwards. Helmut Kohl removed a prostate disease at a party congress in 1989, spoke in pain and didn’t even dare to go to the toilet because he feared a coup against him. Heide Simonis, former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, secretly underwent her drip bottle under a white stole during a public appointment. Helmut Schmidt suffered from recurring fainting. Later he said in an interview: « We did not talk about it, but it was clear that we would not say anything. The crucial thing is that the environment of the politician that they would keep the snout. »