{"id":1266377,"date":"2022-02-02T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266377"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:24:06","slug":"biden-touts-biden-cancer-initiative-which-closed-after-spending-on-salaries-nothing-on-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-touts-biden-cancer-initiative-which-closed-after-spending-on-salaries-nothing-on-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Touts &#039;Biden Cancer Initiative,&#039; Which Closed After Spending on Salaries, Nothing on Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-touts-biden-cancer-initiative-which-closed-after-spending-on-salaries-nothing-on-research%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/10\/Joe-Biden-at-Milken-Conference-Getty-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden touted his past support for an organization called the Biden Cancer Initiative on Wednesday, as he announced a \u201cMoonshot\u201d on cancer research \u2014 but ignored its scandal-plagued history, which arose in the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As the&nbsp;<em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/14\/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons\">reported<\/a> in 2020, the organization \u2014 which Biden opened after leaving office in 2017, but closed just two yeas later \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/15\/confirmed-biden-cancer-initiative-spent-on-salaries-and-little-else\/\">spent no money<\/a> on cancer research, but spent millions of dollars of donors\u2019 money on staff salaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Washington Free Beacon had&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/2020-election\/biden-cancer-nonprofit-paid-its-top-execs-millions-little-on-mission-to-eradicate-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a> earlier in 2020 that the Biden Cancer Initiative spent 65 percent of its total budget of nearly $5 million on staff compensation between 2017 and 2018. It spent nothing whatsoever on cancer research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Moreover, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/27\/joe-biden-told-milken-conference-im-not-running-in-2020-id-be-in-a-walker\/\">noted<\/a>, Biden\u2019s appearance at a conference in 2017 to promote the Biden Cancer Initiative served as a pretext for a meeting with businessman Tony Bobulinski, who was to set up a joint venture with a Chinese firm.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski later confirmed reports, based on materials on the laptop of Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, that he had met with the former Vice President, who wanted to be given 10% of the equity in the company, which was to have been called Sinohawk.<\/p>\n<p>Biden lost his other son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015 \u2014 a loss that, Biden says, motivates his interest in curing the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In presenting his \u201cMoonshot\u201d initiative, Biden castigated doctors, hospitals, and researchers on Wednesday for allegedly refusing to share their knowledge about cancer treatments, promising that his new initiative would break down the \u201csilos\u201d between different research institutions.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that all cancer patients wanted to share their private medical data, despite legal protections and other practices that made the sharing of patients\u2019 personal information more difficult.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\"><em>Joubert Park<\/em><\/a>, tells the story of a Jewish family in South Africa at the dawn of the apartheid era. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, recounts the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden touted his past support for an organization called the Biden Cancer Initiative on Wednesday, as he announced a \u201cMoonshot\u201d on cancer research \u2014 but ignored its scandal-plagued &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}