It was inevitable that, at some point, Jill Biden was going to come out with a book to tell her side of the story, not just regarding what happened at the infamous June 2024 presidential debate but also about her time as first lady.
As it’s billed on the Simon and Schuster website, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” which comes out on June 2nd, centers around how Mrs. Biden supposedly was and is “dedicated to her roles as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher — and First Lady of the United States.”
But people who remember the turmoil of the Biden-Harris administration and the repeated instances of Joe Biden looking lost, out of it, frequently confused, and having to be stage-managed from start to finish by his handlers — including Jill Biden — that characterization rings hollow.
Mrs. Biden sat down for an interview with the CBS Sunday Morning program, and ahead of its airing on Sunday, several clips are being released to drum up interest.
In the first one, released on Wednesday, Jill Biden claimed she had “never” seen Biden look the way he did at that debate before or since. But she did note that at one point at the debate, she believed the president was “having a stroke,” which she said “scared me to death”:
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an interview airing Sunday on CBS.”I don’t know what happened,” she said. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
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The Atlantic, which obtained a copy of the book for review ahead of its release, opined that “Part of Jill Biden’s goal … it seems, is to dispel bipartisan accusations that she was a hidden hand covering up her aging husband’s cognitive decline and nudging him to cling to power longer than his mind and body could sustain.”
If that’s the case, she failed miserably to dispel such accusations for reasons I’ll get to in a minute. But first, let’s take a look at the next clip from the Sunday interview that was released, which shows Jill Biden adamantly denying she had ever seen signs of cognitive decline from her husband:
“CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent Rita Braver asked the former first lady whether she saw signs that her husband was “falling into cognitive decline.””No,” Jill Biden said.Braver cited the public’s concerns about the president’s mental acuity: “People were saying he wasn’t the same Joe Biden.””He was the same, the essence of the same Joe Biden, but yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older. It’s a very intense job. I think it ages you — quickly,” Jill Biden replied, in an interview airing Sunday, May 31, on CBS.
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It’s really astonishing, honestly, that Jill Biden thinks this book and the media tour she’s going on to promote is going to make her look better. I mean, think about it. She was in attendance at the debate and was part of one of its more notable moments when she was seen having to hold his hand as he went down a couple of stage steps once everything concluded:
If she thought he was having a stroke or another similar type of major medical issue on national TV, why didn’t she stop the debate? That’s the kind of thing where you don’t sit back and watch as a supposedly concerned wife. You take action.
Further, why did she drag Joe Biden off to campaign stops in the aftermath, which were well after his bedtime, and where she joined in “four more years” chants even after supposedly thinking he’d just had a stroke or been drugged?
Further, she admitted in the book that there was no medical evaluation done after the debate because she didn’t request one, even after thinking Joe Biden had a stroke:
“To this day, I still don’t know what happened. Why wasn’t he making any sense? It was inexplicable to me,” she says elsewhere in the book. Maybe he had rehearsed too much? Maybe he had traveled too much that month? Or was he just ill? The president had seemed exhausted earlier in the day and had told her that he was not feeling too well. Later, after positing that he may have unwittingly taken codeine cough syrup or Ambien to fight off a cold or to help him sleep, Jill Biden seems to rhetorically throw her hands in the air: “I only wish I had the answer.” (You could forgive the reader for wondering, Well, did you ask him?) The first lady writes that she wished she had thought to ask for a blood test after the debate (and also says she suggested the president take a cognitive test to calm doubts, but was overruled by his advisers).
Let’s also not forget that Jill Biden reportedly was, again, the most vocal proponent of Biden not only running for reelection despite his declining health but also staying in the race after the disastrous debate, where she says she thought her octogenarian husband might have had a stroke.
“The first lady has also expressed fear that bowing out would make the Atlanta debate a defining image of her husband’s presidency, an outcome she finds unacceptable, the people said,” Politico reported two weeks after the debate.
Jill Biden’s press tour so far for this book has become almost as disastrous as her husband’s debate performance, as demonstrated by how even the Democrat apologists at CNN, which was heavily involved in pushing the insulting “cheap fakes” narrative ahead of that 2024 debate, don’t seem to be buying it:
“It’s the first time that we’ve heard her express any concern about that debate that ultimately ended Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. But that stands in stark contrast to what Jill Biden had to say just moments after the debate.”
This book isn’t about trying to make Joe Biden look better. It’s about trying to make Jill Biden look like less of a conspirator to hide the truth from the American public than she already does. Newsflash for “Dr.” Jill: It’s not working.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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