A resurfaced clip of Joe Biden saying he 'has cancer' during a 2022 speech has been seized upon by conspiracy theorists after the president's actual cancer diagnosis was confirmed three years later.
Biden, then 79, was speaking about environmental pollution in Massachusetts when he veered off-script and said, 'That's why I - and so damn many other people I grew up with - have cancer.'
The remark, delivered in the present tense, triggered immediate confusion and speculation at the time.
The White House in 2022 quickly dismissed the statement, saying Biden was referring to non-melanoma skin cancers removed before he took office.
But with Biden's office confirming on Sunday that he has metastatic prostate cancer, the line is being viewed in a new, and far more explosive, light.
