Did Jill Biden signal Joe not to answer mental health question on ‘The View’?
Jill Biden is suspected of giving a secret signal to her husband, former President Joe Biden, when she didn’t want him to answer a question on “The View” last week.
The alleged move was thought to have come when the former First Couple appeared recently on the live ABC chat show to give one of Biden’s first interviews since leaving the White House earlier this year, the Daily Mail reported.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin had asked Biden about Democratic insiders who have said that the ex-prez suffered a cognitive decline during his final year in office.
After a few moments of relatively fluid speech, Biden suddenly stopped and said, “I’ve spoken enough.”
But former First Lady Jill Biden picked up the answer without missing a beat.
The move sparked theories that she may have nudged the former president or kicked him under the table in order to quiet him.
Jill Biden was often accused of hiding her husband away and cutting him off from answering unscripted questions from the press.
The former first lady on “The View” denied “sequestering” Joe Biden during their time in the White House.
But her sudden interjection on “The View” appeared rehearsed, the Daily Mail said, as she said that she was infuriated by books about her husband’s struggles in office because “nobody saw how hard Joe worked.”
Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race after a disastrous debate performance against then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Vice President Kamala Harris replaced Biden as the Dem nominee and was defeated by Trump for the White House.
Biden told “The View” hosts that he “wasn’t surprised” by the outcome of the election, saying that Trump had gone the “sexist route” in order to “undercut” Biden’s former veep.
Biden said that Trump received “seven million fewer votes” against Harris compared to Trump’s showing against Biden in 2020, when the Democrat won the White House.