The Biden family has a history of concealing late-stage cancer from the public.
"Beau's cancer treatment also demonstrated the Bidens' capacity for denial and the lengths they would go to avoid transparency about health issues, even when the person in question is an elected official, in this case the sitting attorney general of Delaware."
In summer 2013, Beau had surgery after collapsing during a vacation and a Stage 4 tumor was removed from his brain. Beau then started to do fewer public appearances, stopped doing lengthy interviews, and "appeared gaunt." Despite all this, the Bidens didn't disclose anything and, in November 2013, "Beau told a local reporter that he had a "clean bill of health" after an exam."
"Beau would remain the sitting attorney general of Delaware for the entirety of 2014, even as his family secretly flew him all over the country for a variety of experimental treatments. In April 2014, he began having difficulties with his speech. He would often enter hospitals under an alias: George Lincoln."
Beau's wife disapproved of the secrecy, but Joe Biden insisted on it.
"Beau's wife, Hallie, told people she didn't understand why they had to keep his illness a secret. Making it public likely would have led people to rally around the family. He was an elected official. Both Biden and Beau opposed disclosure."
"At times, Biden also instructed his team to mislead the media about his whereabouts. They would publicly say that the vice president was going to Delaware for the weekend, then returning to DC the next week. That was technically true, but Biden sometimes flew to Houston, where Beau was receiving treatment, to be with his eldest son over the weekend."
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