Jill Biden Opens Up About 'Hurtful' Attacks On Joe Biden's Cognition

Former US President Joe Biden and former first lady Dr Jill BidenFormer President Joe Biden and former first lady Dr Jill Biden were confronted with questions about his apparent cognitive decline during a Thursday morning appearance on ABC’s The View, publicly airing their feelings after months of avoiding the spotlight.The View hosts brought up the concerns about Joe Biden’s age and ability at multiple points in the hour-long TV appearance. After Biden said there was “nothing to sustain” the concerns, his wife of 47 years chimed in to say that the people who were most vocal were not the same people who spent the most time with the couple in the White House.“Being president is not like a job. It’s a lifestyle,” Jill Biden said. “You live it 24 hours a day. That phone can ring at 11:00 at night or 2:00 in the morning. It’s constant. You never leave it. And Joe worked really hard.”Host Sara Haines later asked the former first lady whether she might have been too close to the situation to assess it properly. “It’s been reported that you created a sort of cocoon around him and kind of limited his interactions with the media and others,” Haines asked, echoing language from a July Axios report about worried Biden staffers. “I was with Joe day and night. I saw him more than any other person,” Jill Biden responded. “I did not create a cocoon around him. I mean, you saw him in the Oval Office. You saw him making speeches. He wasn’t hiding somewhere. I didn’t have him, you know, sequestered in some place.”“Wish she had,” the former president quipped, to laughter.“It was very hurtful, especially from some of our so-called friends,” Jill Biden added.The former president acknowledged on The View that he performed poorly in his June debate against Trump and took responsibility for Trump’s eventual victory.“Look, I was in charge, and he won,” Joe Biden said. The debate led to a critical mass of doubt among high-profile Democrats and Democratic fundraisers, who began to go public with calls for Biden to drop his reelection bid. Actor George Clooney wrote a New York Times op-ed saying that he loved Biden but the party needed a new nominee. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to throw her support behind Biden, and even his former running mate, ex-President Barack Obama, reportedly raised doubts.President Biden ended up dropping his bid for reelection in late July. He told The View that while he thought former Vice President Kamala Harris was a strong candidate, he had never seen such a “successful and consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country, and a woman of mixed race.”Biden also touched on the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying, “I think we underestimate the phenomenal negative impact that Covid had and the pandemic had on people, on attitudes, on optimism, on a whole range of things, so I was very disappointed and, but I wasn’t surprised.”The former president said Friday that it was important to him to follow the tradition of declining to speak out during a new president’s first few months.An interview Biden gave to the BBC, which aired this week, marked his first major sit-down since President Donald Trump took office. Related...White House Declares Biden A ‘Complete Disgrace’ Following His Fiery BBC Interview'It's Modern Day Appeasement': Joe Biden Slams Donald Trump Over Ukraine WarTrump Says Jimmy Carter ‘Died A Happy Man’ Knowing Biden Was The Worst President

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