Jill Biden is on a full-blown media blitz hawking her new memoir, "View from the East Wing: A Memoir," and she'd really appreciate it if we all forgot that her husband spent the last two years of his presidency wandering around like a confused tourist at Epcot. The former First Lady sat down with CBS's Rita Braver and NBC's Today Show to insist — with a straight face — that Joe was totally fine the whole time.
Sure, Jill. And the Titanic was just taking a little dip.
Here's where it gets fun. When asked about the catastrophic June 27, 2024 debate in Atlanta — the one that effectively ended Joe Biden's reelection campaign — Jill told CBS, "I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since... I thought, 'oh my God, he's having a stroke.'" So your husband looked like he was having a stroke on live television in front of 50 million Americans, but everything was fine? Pick a lane, Dr. Biden.
The revisionist history tour doesn't stop there. This is the same woman who stood by while MSNBC's Joe Scarborough told the country that "this version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever." We all watched the man confuse dead European leaders — mixing up Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand, both of whom had been dead for years — during live press conferences. We watched him fall off a bicycle in June 2022. We watched him trip over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy commencement in 2023. Best Biden ever, folks.
But the memoir tour isn't just about Joe's mental fitness — it's about rewriting the entire final chapter of the Biden presidency.
When Special Counsel Robert Hur released his classified documents report in February 2024, he described Joe Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." The White House threw a fit, but the American people saw what they saw. No amount of book-tour spin changes the fact that this man was the leader of the free world while his own wife thought he was having a stroke on national television.
Then there's the Hunter situation. Jill told the Today Show about the presidential pardon: "I did support it, of course. I'm his mother. Joe wasn't thinking about himself." Interesting phrasing. Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon on December 1, 2024, covering Hunter's federal gun charges — for which he'd already been convicted in Delaware — his guilty plea on nine tax counts in California, and any other potential charges spanning from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. That's a decade-wide pardon for a man who was weeks away from sentencing in mid-December 2024. But sure, Joe "wasn't thinking about himself."
Let's also not forget that Jill reportedly opposed Kamala Harris as the VP pick back in 2020, allegedly saying, "Why do we have to choose someone who attacked Joe?" Now she's out here acting like the whole administration was a well-oiled machine of competence and harmony.
The pattern is clear. The Bidens want the memoir to be the final draft of history. The problem is that we have the receipts — the debate footage, the bicycle, the sandbag, the Hur report, the pardon paperwork. All of it.
As Amanda Head at Just The News put it, this deception tour doesn't pass the sniff test. And honestly? It doesn't even come close.
Jill Biden can sell all the books she wants. But the American people watched four years of cognitive decline in real time, and no ghostwritten memoir is going to memory-hole that. We saw it. We remember. And we're not buying what she's selling — literally or figuratively.