Jill Biden accused of 'elder abuse' by Washington Post columnist for pushing husband to seek re-election

A Washington socialite and writer accused erstwhile First Lady Jill Biden of "elder abuse" successful an explosive caller interrogation aft erstwhile President Joe Biden was diagnosed with precocious prostate cancer.

Sally Quinn, a DC insider and longtime columnist for the Washington Post, took purpose astatine the erstwhile archetypal woman during a wide-ranging interrogation with writer Tara Palmeri connected the "Tara Palmeri Show" connected Wednesday. She accused Jill Biden of pushing him to tally for re-election contempt his evident cognitive decline.

"I blasted Jill Biden for this. Jill Biden is his wife. And if Jill Biden had stood up and gone to him and said, ‘Joe you can’t bash it’… He wouldn’t person run," Quinn told Palmeri. "She intelligibly was successful favour of his moving and I conscionable deliberation it was a unspeakable disservice to the country."

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Former President Joe Biden and erstwhile First Lady Jill Biden were scrutinized by longtime DC writer Sally Quinn successful a caller interview. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Quinn described feeling aghast by however Jill Biden continued to propulsion up and rally enactment for her husband’s statesmanlike run instantly aft the "hideous" June 2024 presidential debate, which sparked statement implicit whether Biden was acceptable to service different 4 years.

"She wasn't protecting him… I thought it was elder abuse, really," Quinn declared.

Quinn, who has dined with the Washington constitution for decades, said Biden’s evident worsening wellness was an unfastened concealed among the Washington elite, who were worried astir Biden’s quality to grip different 4 years successful the Oval Office.

"Everybody thought helium shouldn’t run," she told Palmeri. "People were conscionable distraught that helium was moving and unspeakable for the party."

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President Trump and erstwhile President Biden (Win McNamee/Pool via REUTERS, Getty Images)

"I deliberation everybody was horrified that helium was enactment successful a presumption wherever helium was allowed to run, by his unit and by his wife," she continued. "People felt atrocious for him. But inactive it was his egotistical determination to enactment successful bureau and look what happened."

The writer famously was joined to Watergate-era Washington Post exertion Ben Bradlee, who suffered from demential until his decease successful 2014.

She said Biden’s forgetfulness and wont of wandering off reminded her of however her precocious hubby acted during his past years of life.

"It looks similar the opening of dementia to me," she said of Biden.

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President Joe Biden speaks successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

The DC insider said she was shocked to learn, alongside the remainder of the country, of Biden’s late-stage crab diagnosis and wondered however it could not person been caught sooner.

"The President of the United States has the champion aesculapian attraction successful the world, oregon should, and it should’ve been diagnosed a agelong clip ago," she said. "It’s hard for maine not to judge that they didn’t cognize astir it and were waiting to uncover it until it got excessively aggressive."

A Biden spokesperson confirmed to Fox News that the erstwhile president’s past known prostate crab screening trial was successful 2014.

Biden's wellness is erstwhile again successful the media spotlight aft the merchandise of CNN writer Jake Tapper and Axios writer Alex Thompson’s caller book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," which reports claims of a White House cover-up of the then-president's evident cognitive decline.

Jill Biden’s bureau did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

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