乔·拜登表示，如果早知道自己患癌，他会放弃2024年的连任竞选。他还为自己的总统履职能力以及赦免亨特·拜登的决定进行了辩护。
Joe Biden said he would have abandoned his 2024 re-election bid had he known about his cancer. He also defended his presidential fitness and the pardon granted to Hunter Biden.
美国前总统乔·拜登表示，他在任期间并不知道自己患有癌症，如果当时已经确诊，他不会寻求第二个任期。
Former US president Joe Biden has said he did not know he had cancer while in office and would not have sought a second term if he had already been diagnosed.
拜登在2024年竞选连任期间，因与共和党人唐纳德·特朗普的一场辩论表现不佳而退出竞选。他还为自己有能力担任总统以及赦免儿子亨特·拜登的决定进行了辩护。
Biden, who ended his 2024 re-election campaign after a poor debate performance against Republican Donald Trump, also defended his ability to serve as president and his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden.
上述言论出自拜登接受《人物》杂志采访时的表态，采访于周二他的白宫回忆录出版前进行。拜登将于11月20日年满84岁，他在2025年离任数月后被诊断出患有转移性前列腺癌。
His comments came in an interview with People magazine ahead of the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. Biden, who turns 84 on November 20, was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer months after leaving office in 2025.
“如果我当时知道自己感觉糟糕是因为得了癌症，我就不会继续参选，”拜登在谈到自己的连任竞选时说。“我认为一个80岁、患有癌症的人不应该竞选”总统，他补充道。
“If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would've not gone forward,” Biden said about his re-election bid. “I don't think an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running” for president, he added.
不过，拜登表示，2024年6月的那场辩论——距离选举日不到五个月——并不是什么重大事件，尽管它加剧了民主党人对他年龄以及击败特朗普能力的担忧。拜登当时81岁。
However, Biden said the June 2024 debate, held less than five months before Election Day, was not a major event, even though it intensified concerns among Democrats about his age and ability to defeat Trump. Biden was 81 at the time.
“首先，我以为还会有另一场辩论，但并没有，”他说。“不过，尽管没有另一场辩论，这也没有困扰我，因为它并不具有决定性影响。”辩论后数周内，拜登结束了竞选，并支持他的副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯。哈里斯获得了民主党提名，但在大选中输给了特朗普。
“First of all, I thought there'd be another debate, which there wasn't,” he said. “But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential.”Within weeks of the debate, Biden ended his campaign and endorsed his vice-president, Kamala Harris. She secured the Democratic nomination but lost to Trump in the general election.
拜登坚称自己在任期间能够履行总统职责。他说，年龄本身并不是取消资格的理由，年龄反而给了他经验和与世界领导人的牢固个人关系。“我相信，从客观角度来看，我是最适合担任这一职务的人，”他说。
Biden insisted that he had been able to perform his duties while in office. He said age alone was not a disqualification and that it had given him experience and strong personal relationships with world leaders. “I believe that on an objective basis, I was the best-equipped person to do the job,” he said.
亨特·拜登8月对BBC表示，癌症已经扩散，让他的父亲感到疼痛。“这非常痛苦，在很多方面都让人非常虚弱，”他说。
Hunter Biden told the BBC in August that the cancer had spread and was causing his father pain. “It's very painful and it's very debilitating in many respects,” he said.
自乔·拜登卸任以来，亨特·拜登在公众场合扮演了更引人注目的角色。他在社交媒体上与共和党人交锋，就国家走向发表长篇观点，还推出了自己的加密货币。
Since Joe Biden left office, Hunter Biden has taken on a more prominent public role. He has sparred with Republicans on social media, posted lengthy views on the direction of the country and launched his own cryptocurrency.
乔·拜登为儿子的公众形象以及他赦免儿子的决定进行了辩护。亨特·拜登2024年因联邦重罪枪支指控被定罪，并对联邦税务指控认罪。亨特·拜登还因他的国际商业往来而多年受到审视和共和党人的猛烈攻击。
Joe Biden defended his son's public persona and his decision to pardon him after Hunter Biden's 2024 conviction on federal felony gun charges and his guilty plea to federal tax charges. Hunter Biden had also faced years of scrutiny and sharp Republican attacks over his international business dealings.
亨特·拜登曾表示，赦免损害了父亲的 legacy，但乔·拜登说，特朗普寻求报复的倾向使赦免成为必要。“他毫无根据地追查别人，不管他们是否被视为敌人。我知道他会做什么，”拜登说。“如果我没有赦免——不只是我的一些家人，任何与我打过交道的人——他会回过头来试图伤害他们。”
Hunter Biden has said the pardon damaged his father's legacy, but Joe Biden said Trump's tendency to seek vengeance had made it necessary. “He goes after people without any basis, whether they're viewed as an enemy. I knew what he would do,” Biden said. “If I hadn't pardoned — not just some of my family members, anyone who's dealt with me — he would go back and try to do harm to them.”
拜登称儿子是“我认识的最聪明的人之一”，并补充说，“我真的为他感到骄傲。”拜登坚称自己在任期间适合履职，但表示如果早知道自己患癌，就不会竞选连任。他也坚持赦免亨特·拜登的决定，称此举意在保护儿子及与他有关联的人。
Biden called his son “one of the brightest men I know”, adding, “I'm really proud of him.”Biden maintained that he was fit to serve while in office but said he would not have run for re-election had he known about his cancer. He also stood by his pardon of Hunter Biden, saying it was intended to protect his son and others associated with him.