Our Presidents. Their Secrets.

This needs to change. For everyone's sake.

By Greg Rabidoux

Like our First Lady Melania, and our President Donald Trump, I wish only the best for Joe Biden. Cancer respects no political party, stops at no ideological boundary, spares very few, if any, in its destructive path. So, please, don't take what I am about to say next as anything remotely partisan. It is not.

But there is a simple, clear, and inescapable conclusion after hearing the news yesterday about the discovery of Joe Biden's prostate cancer, apparently, a very aggressive and advanced stage of cancer-Someone knew. Because if the White House physician did not know then serious questions need to be posed and answered about the competency of President Biden's White House entire staff of doctors. This isn't some unfortunate homeless guy with no access to healthcare, let alone, supposedly, the best in the world. Depending on what the answers are, if we get any, then the next level of inquiry needs to be focused on the depth of dishonesty that was also allowed to metastasize throughout the White House under Biden. What's the alternative? That his doctors knew and simply looked the other way, knowing Biden wanted to finish out his first term, and for a long time, even run for a second? Did they keep this cancer diagnosis even from Joe? How about Jill? Did she know?

Look, our presidents have always had secrets while in office. Physical, mental, and otherwise. JFK left Jackie Kennedy in the hospital after she just delivered a baby, so he could go fornicate with a mobster's mistress which was never made public. But people close to the president knew. They kept quiet about it even as White House doctors injected him with Lord knows what to keep him upright. Nixon's doctors apparently knew he struggled with severe bouts of schizophrenia, but it was papers stolen from a safe in The Watergate that brought his presidency to its knees not his delusions. Grover Cleveland had secret surgery on a yacht called Oneida. Reagan's Alzheimer's was worse than the public knew during his last 6 months in office. But someone knew. But it sure wasn't us.

But these all pale in comparison to the cover-up that the Biden Administration, staff, medical team, and family, especially First Lady Jill, all engaged in these last four years to keep Joe's physical and mental deterioration a secret. Ultimately, such Oval Office chicanery helps no one. Not in this instance. Not in any. If we had a vigilant and impartial press such secrets would have been harder, maybe impossible to keep. But we don't.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone took a lot of flak for his supposed "conspiracy theories" and "wild interpretations" of the type of secret stuff that goes on in the White House in his presidential biopic films. Little did we know the truth is probably much worse. That needs to end for the good of our presidents. For the health of our own body politic. Unlike Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men," we really can handle the truth.

Greg Rabidoux is an award- winning filmmaker, author, and script writer.