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Trump suggests without evidence Biden delayed sharing his cancer diagnosis (www.npr.org)

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 8 points 1 day ago

Trump appeared to conflate the Gleason score — a measurement of how aggressive cancer cells appear to be — with the stage of Biden's cancer. Biden's Gleason score was 9, indicating it is aggressive. He has Stage 4 cancer, the most serious of the four stages. (There is not a Stage 9 cancer.)

Trump saying he was at 'stage 9' and hid it. This is a great example of how he does what he does. When asked a question he whips up these semi-plausible sounding lines of bullshit directly on the spot to criticize whomever his target of the moment is, and before anyone can parse out what he just said to correct it he's moved onto the next line.