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Jill Biden: The Worst First Lady Ever

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January 17, 2025

Jill Biden: The Worst First Lady Ever

She put her own lifestyle ahead of the country.


by Ellie Gardey Holmes
Spectator.org


T     o put it bluntly, Jill Biden’s time as first lady has been a complete train wreck.

Even Jill Biden is on the verge of admitting it. In a full-ranging interview with the Washington Post this week, the first lady confessed, “Let’s just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded” — with “it” being her and Joe’s time in the White House.

When prompted to answer why she felt that way, Jill vaguely said: “I don’t know. I learned a lot about human nature.”

This was intended to be a dig at Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who rightly forced Joe Biden out of the presidential race due to his cognitive incapacity. In Jill’s view, this was a betrayal of friendship. To her, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer should have done everything possible to keep Biden in the race because of their decades-long close relationship with the Biden family.

“We were friends for 50 years,” Jill said of Pelosi’s effort to force Biden out. “It was disappointing.”

What about the security and well-being of her nation — the one that is home to 335 million of her fellow Americans? Well, that’s a much lower priority than Nancy Pelosi being a good “friend.”

It’s easy to see why so many have compared Jill Biden to Lady Macbeth. She certainly seems to be a woman who, motivated by her own power, orchestrated her husband’s treacherous attempt to be reelected president. (Treacherous because Joe’s cognitive dysfunction made him unfit for office.)

Jill Biden’s interview with the Washington Post served only to reinforce the narrative that it was she who was the animating force behind that widely denounced reelection bid.

Whereas Joe Biden confessed the other week, “I don’t know. Who the hell knows?” when asked whether he would have been able to serve as president another four years, Jill Biden was adamant that of course, he would have been capable. “Sure,” she said. “I mean, today, I think he has a full schedule. He started early with interviews and briefings, and it just keeps going.”

Jill seemed to be Biden’s foremost defender upon his disastrous debate performance in June — content to not bat an eye at the Democratic meltdown over his awful performance. (“Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question!”)

It has been reported that, well before that disastrous debate, it was Jill who convinced Biden to wage another bid for the White House.

In 2023, Politico published a report on how she managed to get him on board. It was through “gentle encouragement,” wrote Eugene Daniels. “Privately,” Daniels said, “the first lady encouraged her husband to run again while giving him the space he needed to process the decision in the way he traditionally does.” Jill, said the report, had “no reservations” about a reelection bid and was “involved in all the high-level discussions around the decision.” Jill’s response at the time to those who asserted that Biden had “lost a step” was to “bristle” at such criticism, Daniels reported.

Of course, we know now that Jill Biden was well aware of what was going on behind the scenes. According to Carl Bernstein, Biden had acted as he did in the debate on at least “15, 20 occasions” in the year and a half prior to that fateful night. Bernstein explained on CNN: “[T]hese people who have supported him, loved him, campaigned for him, see him often, say that in the last six months particularly, there has been a marked incidence of cognitive decline and physical infirmity.” If Joe was this bad when he was on the clock, imagine how bad he was late at night or early in the morning with Jill.

We also know that there was a purposeful coverup that attempted to shield Joe Biden’s condition. This was carried out even to the extent that members of the White House residence staff — the employees who work in the first family’s private quarters — were kept away from Joe.

“Joe Biden’s close aides have carefully shielded him from people inside and outside the White House since the beginning of his presidency,” reported Alex Thompson in Axios. And, according to Thompson, this was at the behest of Jill Biden’s top aide as well as her deputy chief of staff. Thompson quoted one former White House residence official who said Jill was “so protective of the president, and then [Jill’s top aide] just protects her, and they often wouldn’t let us do anything for them.” Here we have evidence that Jill Biden was orchestrating the coverup of her husband’s cognitive decline — a decline she undoubtedly was familiar with.

Even when Democrats were begging for Joe to exit the race, it was Jill who urged her husband to stay on. At a Biden family gathering at Camp David — for the sake of a photoshoot by Annie Leibovitz — it was reported that Jill and Hunter Biden adamantly encouraged Joe to stay in the race, even as many Democrats were saying that it was up to Jill to convince him to do the right thing and step aside. That weekend was the same one Jill’s Vogue cover hit shelves. Many saw in that cover the reason why Jill was insisting that Joe stay in the race: She didn’t want to give up her White House lifestyle.

In response to the backlash at the time, Jill’s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, told the media that Jill Biden had been put in “an impossible situation” because of “the right wing machine fueling narratives and inventing false caricatures at every turn.” Alexander explained that women across the country struggle with being supportive of the men in their lives without “being too ambitious or aggressive,” according to the Associated Press. Essentially, the claim was that all of the critiques of Jill were just a trumped-up right-wing narrative rooted in sexism.

This is quite rich. If anything, it is Democrats who are the most morally outraged at Jill’s power-hungry antics. But they shouldn’t be alone in their anger. This is a woman who was so selfish that she sought to thrust the entire world into the perilous situation of another four years of an incapable president. Not even Edith Wilson attempted to deceive Americans into electing her husband for another term in power.

If there’s one good thing we can say about Jill Biden, it’s that she has at least stopped insisting we refer to her as “Dr.” Jill Biden. Likely, it got too embarrassing for her to keep that one up. We could laud her as well for finally recognizing her granddaughter who was born out of wedlock — though that acknowledgment was made under duress and after the child was 4 years old.

All in all, Jill Biden has been a disastrous first lady and a danger to her own nation. No wonder she’s so disappointed.

http://spectator.org/jill-biden-the-worst-first-lady-ever/

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