Former First Lady Jill Biden was forced to step in and answer the question when her slurring husband was asked about rumors of his cognitive decline.
Former President Joe Biden and his wife made an appearance on Thursday’s broadcast of ABC propaganda show “The View.”
Although the Bidens only faced gushing softballs from the show’s co-hosts, the former president was asked about several books that reported on his mental and physical struggles.
The question was asked by co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who claims to be a Republican despite backing Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Griffing desperately tried to frame the straightforward question in the most indirect softball route possible.
Rather than pointing out that Biden’s mental decline was obvious in most of his speeches and public appearances, Griffin tried to suggest that the rumors only recently emerged in tell-all books.
The books were written by insiders, revealing what they knew and when they knew it.
“Since you left office, there have been a number of books that have come out, deeply sourced from Democratic sources that claim in your final year there was a dramatic decline in your cognitive abilities, in the final year of your presidency,” Griffin said.
“What is your response to these allegations, and are these sources wrong?”
“They are wrong,” Biden claimed.
“There’s nothing to sustain that, um, number one,” Biden began, before pivoting to give a rambling response that in no way addressed the point of Griffin’s question.
“Number two, you know, think of what we were left with, we were left with a circumstance where we — uh — we had an insurrection?” he slurred.
“When I started, we — not since the Civil War.”
Biden then appeared to blame the pandemic — and one million dead Americans — on President Donald Trump.
“We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — uh — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying,” Biden mumbled as he drifted further away from the initial question.
“And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues and, uh, which I won’t go into here in the interest of time … and so we went to work and we got it done, and you know one of the things that, well, that —”
The former president appeared to lose his train of thought during his rambling response.
Jill Biden was then forced to jump in and answer the question for him.
She tried to suggest that the authors of the books did not know what they were talking about, despite her husband displaying obvious cognitive decline just seconds earlier.
“You know, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us,” she claimed.
“And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day.
“I mean, he’d get up, he’d put in a full day, and then at night he’d — I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings, working with staff …
“I think he was a great president.”
She concluded by bashing Trump, saying:
“If you look at things today, give me Joe Biden any time.”
WATCH:
Instead of grilling Biden on examples of his cognitive decline, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin asks: “What is your response to these allegations and are these sources wrong?”
“They are wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that,” he falsely asserted.
Jill had to step in… pic.twitter.com/ckwRNh0OwZ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 8, 2025
Griffin pushed back lightly, noting that Biden ultimately left the 2024 presidential race after some prodding from members of his own party.
That push came from top Democrats, including Barack Obama, with whom he had served as vice president for eight years.
“Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?” she asked.
Biden insisted that the only reason he’d left the presidential race was to avoid further division within the Democratic Party.
WATCH:
Farah Griffin notes that Biden was pushed out by Democratic Party insiders and donors, including personal friends. “Can I ask what your relationship is with President Obama and how you address those concerns that they raised?”
Biden claims: “The only reason I got out of the race… pic.twitter.com/Wtbjwp9UOY— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 8, 2025
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