MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Panicked Jill and Joe may have just let slip their despicable secret plot… it raises a question almost too ghastly to contemplate

When the overwhelming reaction to your cancer diagnosis is skepticism, you’re done.

And the Bidens have no one to blame but themselves.

With the drumbeat intensifying around the bombshell new book Original Sin — which counts 200 sources, largely Democrat, testifying to the years-long cover-up of President Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline — he and Jill announced, on Sunday, that he has stage IV prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones.

Interesting timing.

Prostate cancer, as we all know, is exceedingly common.

Men over 40 are screened for it annually, and when caught early, the disease is extremely treatable.

Most men with prostate cancer will die with it, not from it.

So how is it that an 82-year-old former president suddenly presents with an aggressive form that, according to multiple cancer experts, can’t be cured?

‘President Biden’s last known [test] was in 2014. Prior to Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer,’ a spokesperson said Tuesday.

Seriously: who believes this?

To my mind, three possible scenarios exist, none of them good.

One: Biden skipped getting prostate exams as president so that he could claim a clean bill of health — which we all know was already a lie.

Two: He was diagnosed early by his physician years ago, but avoided treatment and further testing so as to keep his condition a secret.

Three: He and Jill lied to the public in 2020 and again in 2024, shouting that Trump was a ‘threat to democracy’ and that Joe needed to ‘finish the job’, knowing full well the cancer had progressed to stage IV and that he would likely die in office, leaving us with President Kamala Harris.

Don’t forget: These two were on The View just two weeks ago, doubling down on their claims that Joe was not just perfectly healthy — he was better than ever.

‘The only reason I got out of the race,’ Biden said, ‘was because I didn’t want to have a divided Democratic Party.’

Jill: ‘[Joe would] get up, he put in a full day, and then at night… I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff.’

An 82-year-old president with stage IV cancer that had metastasized to his bones. Sure.

Jill Biden, by the way, has cemented her legacy as one of the worst human beings to ever inhabit the White House — and that’s saying a lot.

You know it’s bad when even the New York Times is reporting that top Dems are outraged, not saddened, by this cancer disclosure and its grave prognosis.

One NYT report Monday: ‘Text chains among Democrats who worked on the 2024 campaign lit up with questions: When did he learn he had prostate cancer? What if he had stayed in last year’s race and won?’

Exactly. Ignore party lapdogs like David Axelrod, who say that now is not the time for questions.

Now is EXACTLY the time for questions. Yes, this is a personal tragedy – but it’s also a massive political scandal, bigger than Watergate, a fraud perpetrated on the American electorate.

We should not be ashamed to demand answers. It’s the only sane response.

Among those coming around: former Democratic representative Dean Phillips, who said, ‘I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week’.

You think?

Even MSNBC is turning.

Oncologist Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel — a Biden administration adviser and brother of Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff — said on Morning Joe that there is no way, none, that Biden’s cancer is a recent development.

‘He did not develop it in the last 100 to 200 days,’ Emanuel said. ‘He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency, in 2021. I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.’

So, we had a sitting president with untreatable cancer.

What else don’t we know?

And how panicked must Jill and Joe be, to have thought this was the play?

That all these books and bombshells about a massive, full-blown cover-up over Joe’s health could be discredited with a cancer admission?

The Bidens have sealed their legacy as vainglorious liars who care not one whit about the country — only themselves.

Anyone who has been touched by cancer, who knows its unique agonies, will forever regard these two as cretins.

They lie. They lie with ease, regularity and a seeming lack of remorse.

Hunter’s laptop? A Russian plant.

The Afghanistan withdrawal? A rousing success.

Cocaine in the West Wing? No idea who it belonged to.

A tight-knit, loving, decent family, you say?

Meet Hunter the degenerate; Ashley, the daughter who wrote of ‘showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)’ in a diary she admitted was real; an ignored and excluded child who Hunter fathered with a stripper; a patriarch who has lied almost his entire career; and, in Dr. Jill — Nurse Ratched, Lady MacBiden — a woman so consumed with power that she foisted her elderly, cancer-stricken, cognitively impaired husband on the nation for a second term.

Disgusting doesn’t begin to cover it.

Oh, and another lie now exposed: Remember when Biden blasted special counsel Robert Hur for bringing up his deceased son Beau?

Well, Hur never did that. Joe Biden did, and the audio tapes released by Axios last week prove it.

About Beau: How could a man whose son died of a brain tumor at 46-years-old not get screened regularly for cancer?

Biden himself had skin cancer, as well as two brain surgeries to treat aneurysms.

And as the president of the United States — one who traveled in vehicles and aircraft designed to withstand a nuclear blast, who was accompanied by a supply of his own blood wherever he went — we’re supposed to believe he suffered none of the effects of this cancer and its aggressive growth?

Ask anyone with the disease: It takes a lot out of you.

A full Congressional investigation must follow. Never again can the American people be lied to, with such ease and the complicity of a supplicant media, about a president this sick.

Sick, that is, in more ways than one.