Social media erupts after Jill Biden reveals she was 'horrified' watching Joe's disastrous debate
Former First Lady Jill Biden is raising eyebrows online for comments she made to CBS, recounting the alarm she felt in 2024 as she watched then-President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate...
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Former First Lady Jill Biden is raising eyebrows online for comments she made to CBS, recounting the alarm she felt in 2024 as she watched then-President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump. "I wasn’t horrified, I was frightened," Jill Biden recalled in a recent interview. "I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I said, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ It scared me to death." The former first lady’s recollections are just the most recent in a long line of commentary surrounding Joe Biden’s debate — a performance Republicans pointed to as evidence that the president, then 81, had declined too much to continue as the nation’s commander-in-chief. FLASHBACK: THE DEBATE NIGHT AGAINST TRUMP THAT THREW BIDEN'S REELECTION CAMPAIGN INTO A FREE FALL During that debate, Joe Biden had whispered his way through questions, famously said his administration had "defeated Medicaid" and repeatedly lost his train of thought. Democrats maintained that the debate was an outlier, a momentary lapse for an otherwise capable Joe Biden. Even as Jill Biden’s comments seemed to continue to make that case almost two years later, Alex Thompson, an Axios Reporter, shed doubt on her characterization. "Biden aides told Jake Tapper and me that they had seen him act that way before and after. Those moments became more difficult to predict and conceal," Thompson said, referring to comments gathered during the writing of Original Sin, a book covering President Biden’s decline. 'ORIGINAL SIN' CO-AUTHOR EXPOSES 'FRANTIC EFFORTS' TO HIDE BIDEN'S COGNITIVE DECLINE "And Jill joined Biden for several campaign events after the debate, including a rally the next day," Thompson added. Conservative commentator Kevin Dalton followed up Thomson’s observation by noting that Jill Biden’s alarm seemed to have been absent in the moments immediately following the debate. "Of course, moments after the debate a clearly not…