Jill Biden is finally saying out loud what tens of millions of Americans saw with their own eyes.
She was frightened watching Joe Biden’s June 2024 debate performance, and she thought he might be having a stroke.
She said it in an interview with CBS News tied to her new book, View from the East Wing: A Memoir.
President Trump heard the same confession everyone else did, and he had one obvious question.
Jill Biden is now out there finally admitting that she did NOT know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe during our spectacular, and highly rated, 2024 Presidential Debate, where Joe was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards. She said that she thought he was… pic.twitter.com/E8AzJ7fRLc
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If Jill Biden truly believed her husband was having a stroke on live national television, why didn’t she rush onto the stage to help him?
President Trump made that exact point in his May 29 post.
CBS News published Jill Biden’s interview remarks this way:
Former first lady Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance and thought he was having a stroke.
“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.”
Biden was running for a second term when he stumbled through the June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump, prompting widespread calls for him to drop out of the race.
He dropped out a month later, with 107 days to go until the general election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
He became the first sitting president to pull out of a presidential race since President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped aside in March of 1968.
ADVERTISEMENTIn a wide-ranging interview, Jill Biden talked about the election, her husband, her new book, “View from the East Wing: A Memoir,” and more.
Watch more of Jill Biden’s interview on “Sunday Morning” on May 31 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations and streaming on Paramount+.
That is a striking thing to admit now.
Because at the time, the official line from Democrats and their media allies was that the American people had not really seen what they saw.
The shaky delivery. The mumbling.
The lost, confused trailing-off mid-sentence.
Voters watched it in real time and asked the only honest question: is this man fit to serve another four years?
The Associated Press noted that Biden’s shaky, mumbling, and sometimes confused delivery in that debate fueled exactly those questions about his fitness.
President Trump shared his own read on the moment in that same post.
He suggested his debate performance is what caused Biden to choke, and said he knows the answer.
The timeline tells the rest of the story.
Biden exited the 2024 race about a month after that debate and endorsed Kamala Harris, leaving just 107 days before the general election.
That is the part Jill Biden’s new memoir tour cannot wash away.
The people closest to Joe Biden now concede the alarm was real.
If his own wife was sitting there terrified that he was having a stroke, the cover story collapses.
Because the same people who saw what she saw spent months insisting the rest of us were wrong, that it was a bad night, that the cheap fakes were the real problem.
It was not a bad night. It was the country watching the truth break through anyway.
President Trump pressed that contradiction directly, and Jill Biden’s own words are the evidence.
The admission is out now. The question is who knew, who hid it, and who told voters to ignore their own eyes.
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