Former first lady Jill Biden fed conspiracy mongers during an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast, leaving open the possibility that someone may have “laced” former President Joe Biden’s drink before his disastrous debate with then-candidate Donald Trump.
Then again, this is coming from the woman White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said should have to answer for her role in the “cover-up” of her husband’s mental decline.
“The moment in the debate with President Biden and now-President Trump, you talk about wondering in that moment live, is he having a stroke or was he drugged?” host Jamie Kern Lima asked. “Were there any steps taken after to rule out either or both?”
“Oh, yeah,” Mrs. Biden answered. “I mean, Joe and I both had a team of doctors around both of us at all times, and he had a team, I had a team. And as all first ladies and presidents have. And yeah, they checked him out. I mean, once we got off the stage, I went to the green room to get my pocketbook and all that stuff. And he went to his staff and the docs and they said, ‘Jill, he’s fine. He’s okay.’ I mean, I was like, you know, I mean, I had so much anxiety about it. Like, ‘What’s wrong? What’s going on?’ But we went on to do three events that night, and he was fine!”
She went on to insist Joe Biden’s actions during the debate were “so inexplicable,” pointing out that he was fine afterwards when they greeted people at the Waffle House, before traveling to North Carolina.
“He got off that plane at three o’clock in the morning. And there’s a band playing, the lights, and hundreds of supporters, and greeted them. And they were, you know, so excited,” Jill Biden added. “And he went around and shook everybody’s hand. And the next week or two weeks later, he was doing a conference with NATO. It was like such an aberration.”
After a back-and-forth on whether the former president had a stroke while on state — he didn’t — the host asked Jill Biden what “her gut” tells her about the debate performance.
“I can’t figure it out. That is my honest-to-God true answer. I don’t know,” the former first lady said.
After agreeing that the conspiracy theories online will “go on forever,” Mrs. Biden fed those theories while providing cover for herself.
“There’s all kinds of theories. You know, he had been traveling. I know he was tired. He didn’t feel well that day when I saw him. But there was nothing definitive that I could point to,” she explained. “And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment. So, I wasn’t with him. I didn’t see him days before, weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before.”
When Lima asked about the possibility that “anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink,” Jill Biden replied, “Who knows? Who knows?”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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