Jill Biden's forthcoming book on her time as First Lady hasn't even been officially released yet, but it's already backfiring because the explanations she's given regarding her husband's disastrous 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump simply don't add up.
And not only do they not add up, but they go a long way towards confirming the impression others have long had of Mrs. Biden being a "power-hungry sociopath" who was willing to overlook Joe Biden's obvious health decline if it meant another four years in office for the two of them, and more scenes like this:
Prepping for the G7. pic.twitter.com/drPmb2vBwI
— Jill Biden Archived (@FLOTUS46Archive) June 9, 2021
Disturbing New Report Reveals Depths of Shover in Chief Jill Biden’s Control Over Joe, His Handlers
Coincidentally, a stroke is what Jill Biden said she thought Joe Biden was experiencing during the 2024 presidential debate, which was the impetus behind the calls for him to drop out of the race - something he did roughly three weeks later.
As RedState reported, Mrs. Biden made the claim in an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, a short clip from which was shared on Wednesday. "I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never," she proclaimed in a statement pretty much no one believes at this point. "As I watched it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's having a stroke.' And it scared me to death."
As we noted, however, that just doesn't square with reality, because if you think your husband is having a stroke, you immediately call for medical attention. You don't just sit there and keep watching. Further, at a campaign appearance after the debate, Jill Biden was cheering on Joe and calling for "four more years." That is not the sign of a concerned wife who thought her husband had just experienced a major health issue on live TV.
Believe it or not, it actually gets worse. Excerpts of the book are now coming out, and, in essence, we see Jill Biden not only confirming she knew about Joe Biden's condition without realizing that's what she's doing, but we also learned that no medical evaluation of Joe Biden was done after the debate because she didn't ask for one, even though she supposedly thought he had had a stroke:
“Nothing explained what I was seeing,” she writes at one point about her husband’s “strangely monochromatic” visage and lackluster performance.
“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).
In other parts of the book, Jill Biden touched on something Joe Biden had referenced before, but in which she went into greater detail, noting that she would often give him policy advice/reminders/encouragement on sticky notes put on the bathroom mirror:
Jill Biden writes that on their bathroom mirror, she would at times leave inspirational messages like “You are my hero” or, on particularly tough days, “Get up, champ. Get up.” Sometimes, she would sneak in messages on policy, relying on her ability to be frank and open with the leader of the free world in ways that others could not. During Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, after an air strike killed seven people working for a humanitarian-aid group, she left a Post-it note on the mirror reading “Net has to stop,” a reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Knowing that Biden and Netanyahu would be speaking the following day, she left another note the next morning, which read: “Be strong. Don’t let BN use your goodness.”
Jill Biden also tried to revise history by putting the blame on Joe for the decision to run for reelection:
At one point in January 2023, she writes, she “floated a hypothetical” and wondered if the Republicans would “continue to go after our family if you decided not to run?” (Hunter Biden’s struggle with drug addiction and the political liability it created for his father take up a considerable portion of the book.) But the president did not think that was a good reason to forgo a presidential race, she says.
But it was widely reported at the time that she had unquestionably been the guiding force behind the decision. She was also the person who, more than anyone else, urged Biden to stay in the race after the debate - despite the fact that she allegedly thought he'd had a stroke.
If Jill Biden thought this book (which will be released on June 2) was going to absolve her of the extensive role she played in the cover-up of Joe Biden's decline (a role some have likened to elder abuse), she is sadly mistaken.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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