In her new memoir, “View from the East Wing,” former First Lady Jill Biden recalled affirming her husband’s blunt assessment of his disastrous 2024 debate performance against now-President Donald Trump.
“I really f***ed up, didn’t I?” then-President Joe Biden whispered to his wife shortly after the debate. “Yes, you did,” she replied.
That revelation appeared in a review of the memoir by Toluse Olorunnipa of The Atlantic. Olorunnipa noted that his outlet received an advance copy of the memoir, set for release on Tuesday.
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On June 27, 2024, President Biden took the debate stage against then-Republican presidential nominee Trump.
At various points in that debate, Biden’s brain appeared to freeze. He slurred his words, looked confused, and sounded incoherent.
“To this day, I still don’t know what happened. Why wasn’t he making any sense? It was inexplicable to me,” Jill wrote in her memoir, per The Atlantic.
“I only wish
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