The White House is calling on Jill Biden to come clean to Congress about her husband's cognitive decline, as a delayed public reckoning with Joe Biden's shadow presidency continues.
“Frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw it, and what she knew,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
The former first lady is falling under fresh scrutiny after the publication of a new book on the cover-up of the former president's health decline, Original Sin by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper.
Jill was defiant in a recent interview on The View, where, joined by her husband, she dismissed the recent glut of reporting about a cover-up as mere gossip.
"The people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day,” she said.
But Jill can't escape the truth, Leavitt said, pointing out that Jill is on video "shielding" her husband from view.
“Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover-up. There are documentation, video evidence of her clearly shielding her husband away from the camera,” Leavitt said.
“They were just on ‘The View’ [May 8]. She was saying everything is fine. She’s still lying to the American people," the press secretary added.
The former first lady encouraged her husband to stick with his doomed 2024 re-election campaign even as Democrats and liberal media stopped supporting him following a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump that led to the unraveling of the Biden presidency. Jill memorably praised her husband for having "answered every question."
Months later, Jill is still in denial.
“I did not create a cocoon around him," she told The View recently. "I mean, you saw him in the Oval Office, you saw him making speeches. He wasn’t hiding somewhere, I didn’t have him sequestered in some place. I mean that’s ridiculous!”
The Biden family only raised new questions after disclosing that the former president has advanced prostate cancer, despite no signs of the illness showing up in his White House medical checkups. House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY), have sent interview requests to Biden's former doctor, who certified last year that the then-president was fit for duty, as well as former top aides.
Comer has even suggested he might force Biden and his wife to appear on Capitol Hill.
The cover-up certainly ranks as among the greatest scandals in U.S. history, and the American people are entitled to transparency.
