https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2790431/biden-lloyd-austin-cancer-diagnosis-tuesday/
Biden not informed of Austin’s cancer
diagnosis ‘until this morning’: White House
Washington Examiner, by Haisten Willis
Posted By: Beardo, 1/9/2024 4:57:31 PM
President Joe Biden did not learn about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin‘s cancer diagnosis until this morning, the White House said Tuesday. Austin’s prostate cancer diagnosis was disclosed publicly Tuesday afternoon, mere hours after the president learned, even though Austin reportedly received the diagnosis himself last month. “[Biden] was not informed until last Friday that Secretary Austin was in the hospital,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said during the afternoon press briefing. “He was not informed until this morning that the root cause of that hospitalization was prostate cancer.”