Former First Lady Jill Biden appeared to admit in her memoir that she knew about Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel before her husband, the then-president of the United States did.
The former first lady released her memoir on Tuesday detailing her time in the White House with former President Joe Biden. On the morning of the Oct. 7 attack in the Middle East, the former first lady writes that an aide texted her asking if her husband was awake because he needed to jump on a call with the National Security Council. (RELATED: Jill Biden Dethroned As America’s ‘Lady Macbeth’)
“Then, very early on the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, I was grading midterms when the staff texted me and asked if Joe was up yet – he had to get on the phone with the National Security Council,” Biden writes.
“I turned on the news and saw what was happening. Hamas had viciously killed, raped, and burned innocent Israeli civilians,” she continued.
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden return to the White House on January 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Bidens returned to Washington after spending the holidays in Delaware and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The former first lady has been on a media tour to discuss her book which has generated headlines regarding her husband’s health while he held office. In her first interview with CBS News, Biden told the outlet that she thought her husband was having a stroke during his disastrous 2024 presidential debate. (RELATED: Jill Biden Took Joe To Waffle House After Thinking He Had Stroke On Stage)
Biden has continued to do media to clear up why she had her husband continue on the campaign trail despite thinking he had a stroke during the presidential debate.
“But 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?” MSNBC’s Morning Joe host asked the former first lady about the moments after the 2024 debate.
“I 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,” the former first lady stated. She noted that her husband believed he had messed up when he exited the stage.
“And 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’s fine. We went on to do three more events that night and Joe was like he always was, and so to me, as I look back, I mean that was so inexplicable. I just to this day it’s just inexplicable,” she continued.
The former first lady has also said that she did not believe her husband was in any way protected or hidden from the American people while working in the White House.
“Really, if we were hiding him behind the scenes, why did we ask the Trump team for the debate? I mean, we were the ones that proposed it, like, if we, if that were true, you know, why did we put him out there?” Jill Biden told MSNBC.
“So, you don’t think that he was protected?” the host pressed.
“No, I don’t think it was protected,” she said.