Trump Targets Jill Biden Over 2024 Debate Stroke Fears as Memoir Revives 90-Minute Collapse
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Updated · The Daily Beast · May 29
Trump Targets Jill Biden Over 2024 Debate Stroke Fears as Memoir Revives 90-Minute Collapse
6 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · May 29
Donald Trump used an early-morning post to mock Jill Biden after she said she feared Joe Biden was having a “stroke” during the June 2024 debate in Atlanta.
CBS and The Atlantic excerpts from her upcoming memoir show she also wondered whether Biden had been “drugged,” while saying she saw no cognitive decline before the debate but did think he was slowing down.
Jill Biden writes that Joe Biden admitted backstage, “I really f----d up,” even though she publicly praised him onstage after the 90-minute showdown.
That debate performance triggered Democratic panic, pushed Biden to abandon his re-election bid weeks later and endorse Kamala Harris, whose 107-day campaign still ended with Trump winning all seven battleground states.
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