Re: Joe Biden Gets One Question About His Cognitive Decline. Jill Has To Help Him Answer It.

Former President Joe Biden got only one question about his obvious cognitive
decline when he made an appearance on Thursday's broadcast of ABC's "The
View" -- and former first lady Jill Biden had to jump in and help him with
his response.
>
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, who typically identifies herself as a Republican
despite supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, took the most
indirect route possible to the obvious question. Rather than basing it on
hours and hours of speeches and public appearance where Biden's cognitive
abilities were clearly lacking, Griffin instead framed it around the numerous
books that are now being 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. 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? 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, adding, "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. 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 then, prompting
Jill Biden to jump in and answer the question for him -- and she tried to
suggest that the authors of the books did not know what they were talking
about.
>
"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 with a jab at President Trump, saying, "If you look at things
today, give me Joe Biden any time."
>
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
>
Griffin pushed back lightly, noting that Biden ultimately left the 2024
presidential race after some prodding from members of his own party --
including former President 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.
>
--
Not a joke! Don't jump!