Posted on 05/29/2026 5:28:02 PM PDT by Libloather
Many Democrats — including former Biden aides — “simply don’t believe” Jill Biden’s stunning claim that she feared President Joe Biden was having a stroke during the disastrous 2024 debate, according to a political journalist.
Alex Thompson, an Axios reporter who co-authored “Original Sin” with Jake Tapper, the 2025 book about Biden’s mental decline and its cover-up, cast doubt on the former first lady’s attempt to “rewrite this portion of history” during an appearance on CNN Thursday.
“Well, a lot of Democrats, including several Biden aides that I’ve talked to since yesterday when this interview came out, just simply don’t believe her,” Thompson said.
He recounted that after Biden’s pitiful debate performance against former President Donald Trump, Jill and Joe Biden held a rally, where Jill cheered “four more years,” and visited a Waffle House, before flying overnight to North Carolina, where he had two rallies back to back.
“A lot of former Biden aides have told me if you really believed he might be having a stroke, that’s not necessarily the same behavior that you would do,” Thompson said.
“There’s no evidence that there was any significant medical exam afterward. There was never a cognitive test afterward.”
In a “CBS Sunday Morning” preview clip released Wednesday, Jill Biden discussed her husband’s catastrophic debate — in which he stumbled over his words and repeatedly lost his train of thought — and admitted to her concerns for the first time.
“I wasn’t horrified, I was frightened. Because I had never, ever seen Joe like that, before or since,” Jill told CBS News correspondent Rita Braver in the snippet.
“I don’t know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
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I thought that she was a ****** doctor (</s>). Even though I am NOT a doctor, I know that time is of the essence for a good chance for a stroke recovery. So, was she just waiting for him to stroke out or is she really that stupid?
She is a lying ho in a family of sociopathic criminals.
The potential stroke was why immediately after the debate she rushed him to Waffle House for their clot busting cheese “Covered” hash browns and sausage.
That is not the behavior of someone who thinks their loved one has had a stroke.
And THEN took him to Waffle House to celebrate!!!!!
Not to the hospital or home to be examined by his physician but to FREAKING WAFFLE HOUSE.
THAT is how you know that disgusting POS white trailer trash is a LIAR.
Looked like a massive brain-fart to me!
I think history books will have an asterisk beside his name with an explanation as to how he was illegally installed, missing part of his brain and wasn’t really President.
Oh my God, he’s having a stroke. Hey, anybody know what the special is tonight at Waffle House?
Jill Biden: “What you saw last night on the debate stage was Joe Biden.”
He had a series of TIA’s years earlier after his son passed.
He had an event during the debate and at the disastrous party where he was led out off the stage as an old man in his dotage....
She’s a PhD, not a medical doctor. But I know they’ve drummed into us, we’re supposed to call her Doctor Jill Biden.
She had “never ever seen anything like that happen before”
Guess she closed her eyes when he turned around and started talking to the flag, or shen the Easter bunny had to stop him from wandering g off, or when he walked off in rose garden, or when world leaders had to direct him where to stand, and keep him from wandering off, or when spoke to a wall onstage or or or.
Nope “never seen anything like that happen before” yeah sure Jill. Git any more whoppers ya wanna tell?
“If she really thought he was having a stroke, why did she just sit there?”
Its all BS. What I recall right after Joek melted down was Taco Jill telling him “you did great, you answered every question” buwahahaha! That is what you would tell a seven year old which is effectively the equivalent of what Joe had left as a brain.
Try EdD ... not PhD.
Liberals succeeded a few years ago in making an Ed.D equivalent to a Ph.D. Most people know it is a fraudulent change, but Ed.D.s thought they were being discriminated against. I don’t think Ed.D.’s have a language requirement, but most universities have or did require proficiency in two foreign languages.
....and first son Hunter had the sniffles because of the same darn cold.
Jill Biden lies like a second grader.
He was probably having a number of ministrokes during his “campaign” and during his 3 hour days, 2 days a week, in the WH. And Jill knew it - it’s why she chaired so many meetings.
lol It took her a long time to come up with that lame excuse.
Somebody screwed up Joe’s dosing cycle and when his meds quit, he reverted to being a robot. Whoever that was deserves a medal.
And because Parkinson’s is a chronic disease, he had it long before the debate. He knew it, his doctor knew it, and she knew it. They all lied.
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