President Trump blasted former first lady Jill Biden on Friday morning over her claim that she thought her husband, President Joe Biden, was having a stroke during the two men’s disastrous 2024 debate.
“She said that she thought he was having a ‘stroke,’ and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
“The only thing she failed to mention was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse.”
In Jill Biden’s forthcoming memoir, “View from the East Wing,” she recalls frantically wondering whether her husband had been drugged or suffered a medical emergency during the CNN forum in Atlanta.
“[D]id 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!!!”
Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27, 2024, led to him dropping out of the presidential race as Trump mocked him mercilessly.
“He got the debate rules he wanted. He got the date that he wanted. He got the network that he wanted,” Trump said at the time. “No amount of resting or rigging could help him defend his atrocious record.”
“Joe Biden’s age is not his problem,” he added. “It’s his competence.”
Jill Biden’s memoir, out June 2, details the conversation between her husband and Vice President Kamala Harris on July 21, 2024, when he called her to confirm he was quitting the race.
Harris, in Jill’s recollection, acted like a “courtroom prosecutor” and demanded the 46th president’s immediate endorsement for her to become the Democratic nominee.
“I want it sooner,” the veep reportedly insisted after Biden suggested waiting until the next day.
Many Democrats are aghast over the timing of Jill’s book, which comes as the party is trying to win control of Congress in the November election.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is suing the Justice Department to prevent the release of audio from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur in connection with a probe of the president’s unlawful retention of classified documents going back to his days in the Senate.
Hur declined to bring charges against Biden, writing in his report that a jury would likely see the 46th president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
