President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. criticized former vice president and top Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for Biden’s recent claim that his administration would find a cure for cancer if he gets elected.
“What was the good one last week? Remember? Joe Biden comes out, ‘Well, if you elect me president, I’m going to cure cancer.’ Wow, why the hell didn’t you do that over the last 50 years, Joe?” Trump Jr. told the crowd, prompting applause.
Trump Jr. spoke at the rally kicking off Trump’s 2020 campaign in Florida on June 18.
His dig at Biden came after he suggested that Biden had been in office for too long.
“The problem is, Joe, you’ve been in government for almost 50 years,” he added. “If government failed you, maybe you’re the problem, Joe Biden.”
Biden’s remark about cancer was made while campaigning in Iowa on June 11.
The crowd responded by applauding.
Biden was head of the Biden Cancer Initiative from the time he left office in 2017 until he recently announced his campaign for president and while in office in 2016 was head of the “Cancer Moonshot” program.
“Fueled by urgency, we stand on behalf of every patient, every family, every community having to deal with a cancer diagnosis and the complex and confusing maze they must navigate thereafter. We are an independent nonprofit organization that builds on the Cancer Moonshot’s goals and grounded on Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden’s firm commitment to ending cancer as we know it,” it says.
“Here’s the ultimate goal: To make a decade’s worth of advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, in five years. Getting it done isn’t just going to take the best and brightest across the medical, research, and data communities—but millions of Americans owning a stake of it,” the White House said after President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech.
Biden had told the audience that it’s difficult to lose a family member.
“People tell a person who lost a loved one that ‘I know how you feel’ when they actually have ‘no idea how I feel,’” Biden said just before promising to cure cancer.
Biden’s son, Beau Biden, died in 2015 after battling brain cancer.
President Trump made a similar claim at the Tuesday rally.
