Jill Biden said during a Tuesday interview that she was \u201cfrightened\u201d following Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous debate performance and revealed that her husband\u2019s campaign team was so concerned by his behavior during the ill-fated contest that they had doctors examine him after he came off stage.<\/p>\n
Read more Professors at Top Universities Donate Overwhelmingly to Far-Left Candidates<\/a><\/p>\n The former first lady appeared on MS NOW\u2019s Morning Joe<\/em> to promote her memoir View From The East Wing<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>in which she reveals that she feared former President Biden had a stroke the night of the first presidential debate in Atlanta.<\/p>\n The disclosures in Jill Biden\u2019s memoir and her comments during a recent round of promotional interviews stand in stark contrast to her characterization of her husband\u2019s debate performance at the time \u2014 and her repeated insistence that he was fully able to meet the demands of a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n Asked why she continued to support her husband\u2019s participation in the race despite her fear that he may have had a stroke, Jill Biden argued that since Joe had been medically cleared, she didn\u2019t feel he needed to drop out.<\/p>\n \u201cBut publicly, of course, you said that he did well, you cheered him on that evening. What do you say to people who today wonder if you thought that then, that something, a medical episode had happened. Did you recommend that he go? Did you recommend that he go to a doctor?\u201d co-host Jonathan Lemire asked.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a team of doctors around me as first lady. Joe had a team of doctors around him. So, when I saw that, and I was frightened, I was, you know, scared to death to see that, and, but the doctors were there,\u201d Jill Biden responded.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then we got off the stage, and you know, I went to get my stuff. He was checked out by the doctors. They said he\u2019s fine,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Read more Gay World Cup Fans Search Desperately for \u2018Safe Havens\u2019 in . . . San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n