Jill Biden should have to answer for 'cover up' of former president's decline, White House says

Former archetypal woman Jill Biden should person to reply for her relation successful the "cover up" of her hubby and erstwhile President Joe Biden’s intelligence decline, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. 

Multiple books published successful 2025 person elaborate the deterioration of Biden’s intelligence faculties portion successful the White House, including successful the publication "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" released May 20. 

"The erstwhile archetypal woman should surely talk up astir what she saw successful respect to her hubby and erstwhile she saw it and what she knew, due to the fact that I deliberation anybody looking again astatine the videos and photograph grounds of Joe Biden with your ain eyes and a small spot of communal consciousness tin spot this was a wide screen up," Leavitt said. "And Joe, by, Jill Biden was surely complicit successful that screen up." 

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters successful the James Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House, May 29, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP)

"There's documentation, video grounds of her intelligibly shielding her hubby distant from the cameras that were conscionable connected ‘The View’ past week," Leavitt told reporters Thursday. "She was saying, ‘Everything is fine.’ She's inactive lying to the American people. She inactive thinks the American nationalist are truthful anserine that they're going to judge her lies. And frankly, it's insulting and she needs to reply for it." 

A spokesperson for Jill Biden did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

"Original Sin," authored by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, includes stories astir however erstwhile President Joe Biden struggled to grip reasonably regular aspects of a campaign. 

For example, the publication says his squad attempted to movie a run video for ads connected tv successful a precocious schoolhouse gym, and person radical inquire questions akin to a municipality hallway meeting. 

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Jake Tapper tells Joe Scarborough that Biden made an effort to person the MSNBC big helium was acceptable to tally for re-election. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

"The run was trying to marque it look similar the president was retired determination taking off-the-cuff questions from voters successful public," the publication said. "But the lawsuit was closed to reporters, and the run had the afloat database of questions that radical would ask."

Even so, erstwhile President Joe Biden encountered truthful overmuch "trouble" answering questions that his squad decided to chopped the footage. Some blamed the mediocre lighting successful the gym, but the publication said that others said the existent occupation remained with the erstwhile president. 

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President Joe Biden, left, and archetypal woman Jill Biden get connected Marine One connected the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, successful Washington.  (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

Meanwhile, Joe Biden's squad has pushed backmost connected the worldly successful "Original Sin," which chronicles the 2024 predetermination rhythm and however his squad allegedly plotted a cover-up to fell conscionable however severely his intelligence faculties had declined. 

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"There is thing successful this publication that shows Joe Biden failed to bash his job, arsenic the authors person alleged, nor did they beryllium their allegation that determination was a cover-up oregon conspiracy," a Biden spokesperson antecedently said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Nowhere bash they amusement that our nationalist information was threatened oregon wherever the President wasn’t different engaged successful the important matters of the Presidency. In fact, Joe Biden was an effectual President who led our state with empathy and skill."