"Doctor" Jill Biden should face criminal charges for elder abuse, according to one Trump administration official.
Leo Terrell, a former Fox News contributor and current lawyer at the Justice Department's civil rights division, argued Jill Biden is guilty of "elder abuse" in the wake of her husband's shocking cancer diagnosis.
During Joe Biden's presidency, the former first lady was often accused by critics of exploiting her aging husband for her own selfish purposes.
Following her husband's pivotal debate performance on CNN last year, which effectively ended his political career in one stroke, she infamously told Biden that he "answered every question," as if he were a child.
Jill Biden is under more scrutiny than ever as her family's former media allies finally begin reporting critically on Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and the effort to conceal it.
Some have even suggested Jill Biden knew about or possibly overlooked her husband's prostate cancer in the pursuit of political power.
Terrell responded to a post on X that claimed Jill Biden "knew about President Biden’s health problems” but “still wanted him to run for President.”
“Elder abuse! Criminal charges??” Terrell wrote.
The initial outpouring of sympathy that followed from Biden's cancer announcement has been replaced by broad skepticism.
Many have questioned how the aggressive, stage four cancer was not caught earlier. Before his recent diagnosis, Biden's last known prostate cancer screening was in 2014, according to his office.
Some have wondered aloud if the Biden family withheld the diagnosis from the public or even timed the news strategically to quash the recent scrutiny of the former president.
As President Trump put it, "Somebody is not telling the facts.”
The speculation is not limited to Trump and his following. Democrat Dean Phillips, who challenged Biden in 2024, said the timing of the cancer news looks suspicious.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week,” Phillips told The New York Times in an interview published Monday.
Biden's White House doctor, Kevin O'Connor, has also fallen under scrutiny for certifying that Biden was "fit for duty" as recently as last year.
The famously close-knit Biden family, meanwhile, continues to put on a united front.
“Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places," Biden wrote on X, quoting Ernest Hemingway.
"Thank you for lifting us up with love and support,” the post read.
