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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OK thanks, she’s a doctor of education. I never understood why there was this insistence that she always be referred to as doctor Jill.
She beat Joe in a game of Operation once. Heck she beat Hunter too, but he was gacked.
The POTATUS’s shoes said otherwise.
She should know. After all, she’s a doctor.
Jill Biden is Hillary Clinton without the criminality of a body count.
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