President Joe Biden touted his past support for an organization called the Biden Cancer Initiative on Wednesday, as he announced a “Moonshot” on cancer research — but ignored its scandal-plagued history, which arose in the 2020 campaign.
The New York Post confirmed Saturday what Breitbart News and others had reported earlier this year: that the Biden Cancer Initiative, founded by former Vice President Joe Biden, spent millions on staff salaries but did little about cancer research.
The cancer research non-profit that former Vice President Joe Biden created after leaving the Obama administration in 2017, spent two thirds of its money on staff, with top executives getting as much as six-figures, before shuttering.
Joe Biden’s younger brother, James, allegedly leveraged the former vice president’s signature cancer initiative to further his own business interests.
Former Vice President Joe Biden made a campaign promise to “cure” cancer if elected president in 2020 during an event in the state of Iowa on Monday afternoon.
“One of the things that has disappointed me in the last six, seven, eight years, is that growing up, most of us were taught, ‘This is America, we can do anything if we set our mind to it,'” Biden told the audience. “But now we kind of walk around like, ‘Woe is me, what are we going to do.?”
