Jill Biden entertains possibility Joe was drugged before 2024 debate with Trump

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Key points

• One of the most decisive moments of the 2024 election was Biden's debate with Donald Trump.
• Podcast host Jamie Kern Lima asked Biden if a stroke was ruled out by doctors the night of the debate.
• Jill Biden published a memoir, "View from the East Wing, " which touched on the debate moment.
• Lima asked, There's no way anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink or something? Who knows?
• The former president's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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.

"Well, they did. When I was writing my book, I was reflecting, but I didn't say, 'God, did Joe have a stroke?' I just stated, 'Is he OK?, they remarked, I mean, I didn't say to them. Is he OK?'" Biden responded.

Lima asked the former first lady what her gut informed her happened, and Biden stated she didn't know.

I mean, there's all kinds of theories – you know, he had been traveling, she remarked. When I saw him, but there was nothing definitive that I could point to, I know he was tired, he didn't feel well that day.

"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.

Notably, the former president's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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 published 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 remarked. "I don't know what happened. As I watched it, I remarked, 'Oh my God, he's having a stroke.' It scared me to death."

She informed Lima she and the president had doctors around them at all times, and she was informed Joe was OK that night before they went on to do more events. "It was like such an aberration, " she continued.

Democrats and others have pushed back on Jill's book tour and the re-hashing of 2024, a sore point for the party after former Vice President Kamala Harris ultimately lost to President Trump.

Andrew Bates, a former Biden spokesperson, remarked of Jill Biden's book, "I don't see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now."

Notably, the former first lady responded to Bates, "I want to say to Andrew: Call me up, and say it to my face, buddy."

Matt Dallek, a George Washington University professor of political management, informed Fox News Digital in an official note that while the memoir tour and rehashing of 2024 probable wouldn't matter to voters ahead of the midterms or 2028, members of the Democratic Party see the Bidens as focused on the past.

Democrats seem to feel like they're focused on the past, they're focused on Trump coming back to power, Dallek remarked. They're focused on the perceived sense of failure of Biden and his unpopularity as he left office.

"I think that the memoir tour, the various appearances by – whether it's Jill Biden or Hunter Biden – I think there's still, you know, a lot of affection for Joe Biden, for the Bidens in the Democratic Party. There's additionally, I think, a certain amount of pain associated with the memory of the Biden presidency and especially the last kind of year or two, " he informed Fox News Digital in an official note.

Notably, the former president is projected to release his own book recounting his presidency in November after the midterm elections.

Taken together, the developments around jill Biden entertains possibility Joe was drugged before 2024 debate with Trump point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.