President Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer, though the White House quickly said it was only a mistaken verb tense.
Mr. Biden made the oddly casual remark about a potential deadly disease in a speech about global warming, citing emissions from oil refineries near his boyhood home in Claymont, Delaware.
“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” he said.
Mr. Biden is known to have had cancer, but only skin cancers that had been cleared up before he took office. Those cancers were caused by the sun, not fossil-fuel emissions though.
Mr. Biden worked as a swimming-pool lifeguard as a young man, and later-in-life skin cancers are common in that line of work, especially for eras when sunscreens were
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