We've been reporting on Jill Biden's book promotion and how it hasn't been going well, if she was trying to convince the American people that she didn't know about Joe Biden's cognitive issues.
Then, too, dropping the memoir now also brings up all the questions about the Democrats trying to run Biden despite his issues. That is not making some Democrats happy, as they gear up for the midterms. They want to focus on attacking President Donald Trump, but this is reminding people of how bad it was.
Yikes: New Excerpts From Jill Biden’s Book on Joe Somehow Manage to Make Her Look Even Worse
Some of the former Biden aides were also unhappy with how Jill was describing what went down, and some of it was brutal, according to the NY Post.
I think Jill Biden must have had a stroke herself to think that her husband was up to the job,” said a Democrat who worked as a senior aide in the Biden era.
“If she can sit back and listen to his constant drivel for over 4 years, she’s the one with real cognitive decline. The fake doctor may want to consider self medication if it took this long to gain some self realization,” the aide said in a jab at the first lady’s insistence on being called “Dr. Jill Biden” for her doctorate in education.
Oh, my.
“No one thought he had a stroke,” another former Biden White House official told The Post. “That is in her head and her head only. This has been litigated and relitigated among staff. We didn’t think he had a health issue because they kept on with the schedule. Immediately to the afterparty and then to Waffle House. Who goes to Waffle House after a stroke?”
One aide, Andrew Bates, actually spoke with his name on the comment.
“We had a duty to win and we didn’t,” Andrew Bates, a spokesman in the Biden administration, told The Post. “I think about that all the time. But I don’t see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now.”
Apparently, Jill Biden was not happy with that response. She was asked about it during an event for her book in Washington, D.C. Her reply was curt, to say the least.
Biden, 75, brushed off the criticism, noting her memoir only “had one chapter on politics” and the rest was about her four years as first lady.
“I want to say to Andrew: Call me up, and say it to my face, buddy,” she charged.
"Buddy?" Eeks. She really doesn't know how to deal with people. Is she considering all the aides must know and what they can spill, if they were so inclined?
Her reply further inflamed the aides, according to reporter Alex Thompson.
Former Biden people are furious at the First Lady’s comments given how hard Bates worked for the Bidens.
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 4, 2026
Former Biden spokesperson @Rodericka goes on the record: “Why are we rehashing years-old scores and clinging to relevancy to sell books about palace intrigue within a wing… https://t.co/g8jFFUr04n
Former Biden spokesperson @Rodericka goes on the record: “Why are we rehashing years-old scores and clinging to relevancy to sell books about palace intrigue within a wing that doesn’t even exist anymore? Focusing on this instead of the bleak reality Americans have been experiencing in the same time frame is exactly why we lost in 24.”
"Wing that doesn't exist anymore?" That's pretty cutting (albeit accurate).
Another former Biden WH staffer tells me:
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 4, 2026
“The former First Lady would still be known as the former Second Lady without Andrew Bates.”
Another former Biden WH staffer tells me: “The former First Lady would still be known as the former Second Lady without Andrew Bates.”
The fact that aides are talking to Thompson is also funny, given how disturbed the Bidens were over the Thompson/Jake Tapper book about Joe's cognitive issues.
So please, Jill, keep talking. You're helping reveal even more.
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