Jill Biden Doesn’t Deny Joe Biden Was “Drugged” Before Debate With President Trump

Former first lady Jill Biden doubled down on the possibility of her husband, former President Joe Biden, being drugged ahead of the 2024 debate and was asked during a podcast Thursday whether doctors ruled out a stroke that night.

Podcast host Jamie Kern Lima asked Biden if a stroke was ruled out by doctors the night of the debate.

“Well, they did. They said, I mean, I didn’t say to them, when I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn’t say, ‘God, did Joe have a stroke?’ I just said, ‘Is he OK? Is he OK?’” Biden responded.

Lima asked the former first lady what her gut told her happened, and Biden said she didn’t know.

“I mean, there’s all kinds of theories — you know, he had been traveling,” she said. “I know he was tired, he didn’t feel well that day, when I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to. And I had been on the road for two weeks up until that moment. So, I wasn’t with him. I didn’t see him days before, weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before.”

Lima asked, “There’s no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something?”

“Who knows? Who knows?” Biden responded.

The former president’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

One of the most decisive moments of the 2024 election was Biden’s debate with Donald Trump. Biden stammered, had long periods of silence and intense, confused facial expressions, to the point some of his most vocal supporters broke ranks and demanded he relinquish the nomination.

Jill Biden released a memoir, “View from the East Wing,” which touched on the debate moment. Biden wrote that she thought Joe might have had a stroke.

“I wasn’t horrified. I was frightened,” Jill Biden recalled in a May interview.

“I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since,” the first lady said. “I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I said, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ It scared me to death.”

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In his 2024 report on Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, Special Counsel Robert Hur referred to these interviews in which he said Biden had “diminished faculties and faulty memory”

Biden can be heard pausing and seeming to forget what he wanted to ask Zwonitzer in the recordings.

Hur concluded in his report that while evidence showed sensitive materials were retained, criminal charges were unwarranted, due to his characterization that Biden was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”

Democrats at the time criticized Hur’s assessment.

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