Donald Trump has seized on Jill Biden’s stunning admission that she thought Joe was having a ‘stroke’ during their infamous 2024 debate, claiming his own ‘spectacular’ performance is what really made his rival ‘choke’.
The President mocked her for not rushing ‘onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do.’
‘Jill Biden is now out there finally admitting that she did NOT know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday, adding acerbically that his rival ‘was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards.’
The former first lady made the admission in a recent interview promoting her new memoir. She said she feared Biden was having a ‘stroke’ or had been ‘drugged’ during the June 2024 debate, where he struggled to speak and string together coherent arguments.
The President complained that Jill had failed to mention how well he had been performing before her husband’s ‘near total collapse.’
‘In other words, as many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate cause him to plain and simple “choke,” leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause?’
Trump concluded, ‘Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!’
Biden appeared frail and repeatedly lost his train of thought as he slurred his way through the debate, a watershed moment that triggered Democratic allies to openly question his fitness for office. He dropped out of the race less than a month later.
Donald Trump has seized on Jill Biden’s stunning admission that she thought Joe was having a ‘stroke’ during their infamous 2024 debate
Jill also said she feared her husband could have been ‘drugged’ during the televised event
Jill made the confession during an interview promoting her new memoir about the election
Biden appeared frail and repeatedly lost his train of thought as he slurred his way through the debate, a watershed moment that triggered Democratic allies to openly question his fitness for office
Jill, 74, watched in horror as Joe, then 83, stumbled over his words, terrified that voters would conclude this was how he always was, she reveals in her book View From the East Wing.
‘Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?’ Jill writes.
She remembers thinking: ‘Oh God – will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?’
It wasn’t just his supporters who saw disaster: Joe himself admitted he’d suffered a primetime car crash in front of the voting public, she noted.
As Biden walked off stage, he confessed to her: ‘I really f***ed up, didn’t I?’
‘”Yes, you did,” I whispered back,’ Jill writes.
The former first lady was one of Biden’s closest confidantes and a driving force behind his 2024 reelection bid.
She fiercely advocated for him to stay in the race after the debate and had a tense relationship with his ultimate successor for the Democratic candidacy, Kamala Harris.
Democrats are now turning on the former first lady, accusing her of revisiting Biden’s disastrous 2024 campaign to sell books just as the party heads into November’s crucial midterm elections
It wasn’t just his supporters who saw disaster: Biden himself admitted he’d suffered a primetime car crash in front of the voting public, Jill reveals
‘You did such a great job, you answered every question, you knew all the facts,’ Jill told her husband on stage when they joined supporters after the debate.
But just weeks later, Biden was forced to abandon his re-election bid and endorse Harris for the nomination.
Democrats are now turning on the former first lady, accusing her of revisiting Biden’s disastrous 2024 campaign to sell books just as the party heads into November’s crucial midterm elections.
‘My reaction was basically: “Welcome to the club,”‘ one former Biden official said.
‘Every person across America and in your administration wondered the same thing, and instead of acknowledging that, we were told for days to ignore it – that it was just a bad night, just an anomaly.’
