Joe And Jill Biden Fire Back On 'the View' Against Accusations Of Health Cover-up, Call Stories 'wrong'

Former President Joe Biden and erstwhile First Lady Jill Biden fired backmost connected "The View" Thursday against stories astir his intelligence diminution down nan scenes astatine nan White House, pinch Jill Biden cutting successful astatine 1 constituent arsenic nan ex-president trailed disconnected while defending his record.

Asked by co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin astir Democratic sources successful caller books who said location was a "dramatic decline" successful nan president's cognitive abilities toward nan extremity of his term, Joe Biden flatly said they were incorrect earlier segueing into disapproval of nan anterior Trump administration.

"They are wrong," he said. "There’s thing to prolong that, number one. Number two, you know, deliberation of what we near with. We near pinch a condition wherever we had an insurrection erstwhile I started, not since nan Civil War. We had a condition wherever we were successful a position that we – well, nan pandemic, because of nan incompetence of nan past outfit, extremity up complete a cardinal group dying, a cardinal group dying. And we’re besides successful a business wherever we recovered ourselves incapable to woody pinch a batch of conscionable basal issues, which I won’t spell into successful nan liking of time. And truthful we went to work, and we sewage it done and, you know, 1 of nan things that – well, I’m –"

That's erstwhile his woman jumped in.

Joe and Jill Biden look connected "The View" connected May 8, 2025. (ABC / Screenshot)

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"Alyssa, 1 of nan things I deliberation is that nan group who wrote those books were not successful nan White House pinch us," Jill Biden said. "And they didn’t spot really difficult Joe worked each azygous day. I mean, he’d get up. He’d put successful a afloat day, and past astatine nighttime he would – I’d beryllium successful bed, you know, reference my book, and he was still connected nan phone, reference his briefings. Working pinch staff. I mean, it was nonstop."

She praised her hubby for moving difficult and said, based connected nan authorities of things now nether President Donald Trump, "give maine Joe Biden immoderate time," starring to large applause from nan audience.

Griffin besides pressed Biden astir his melodramatic departure from nan 2024 title nether unit from chap Democrats like Nancy Pelosi. Biden said he exited because he didn't want a divided Democratic Party, while again insisting during nan show he could person beaten Trump.

"I thought it was amended to put nan state up of my interests, my individual interests. I’m not being facetious. I’m being deadly earnest astir that," he said. "And I deliberation that we still – fto maine put it this way. I had six much months. Did a beautiful bully occupation successful six months."

Joe Biden reacts aft his woman Jill Biden defended his grounds connected "The View." (Screenshot/ABC)

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He acknowledged concerns astir his property – he would person been 86 astatine nan extremity of a 2nd word and was already nan oldest American president successful history – but said he sewage plentifulness done erstwhile "I supposedly mislaid my cognitive capability."

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, a fervent Biden supporter, suggested that his poor showing astatine nan debate past twelvemonth started nan full interest complete his fittingness for office. 

"Why do you deliberation group bought into it, particularly nan Democrats?" Goldberg asked.

Biden said he hadn't mislaid galore debates but acknowledged he had a "bad night" while besides saying he was sick that evening. His woman said he admitted it to her afterward – and he utilized a colorful word for "screwed up" – but she didn't want those 90 minutes to specify his presidency.

"We each saw it, it was terrible," she said of her husband's statement performance.

In actuality, Republicans and immoderate Democrats had been raising concerns earlier nan statement for years and especially passim 2024 astir his intelligence fitness, done specified moments arsenic nan Robert Hur study that mentioned his failing memory, a bombshell Wall Street Journal communicative astir behind-the-scenes concerns, and various viral videos of Biden appearing to frost up aliases look confused that nan White House dismissed arsenic "cheap fakes."

However, nan debate's fallout was unmistakable. Although Biden held connected astatine first, he succumbed to statement unit and exited nan title connected July 21, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, who went connected to suffer nan wide predetermination to Trump.

Former First Lady Jill Biden connected "The View." (Screenshot/ABC)

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Co-host Sara Haines put power connected Jill Biden complete concerns she whitethorn person been excessively adjacent to nan business to impartially gauge whether her hubby could grip a 2nd term.

"I was pinch Joe time and night," she said. "I saw him much than immoderate different personification … I did not create a cocoon astir him. I mean, you saw him successful nan Oval Office. You saw him making speeches. He wasn’t hiding somewhere. I didn’t person him, you know, sequestered successful immoderate place."

Asked astir nan thought she was a "Lady MacBeth," a reference to nan scheming Shakespeare characteristic who wields nefarious power down nan scenes, she responded that specified rhetoric was "very hurtful, particularly from immoderate of our alleged friends."

Jill Biden has previously said she was disappointed successful Pelosi's domiciled successful pushing her hubby retired of nan race.

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"We were friends for 50 years," she told nan Washington Post. "It was disappointing."