The View Defends Jill Biden Propping Up Joe: ‘She Did What She Thought She Should’

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 29th, 2026 4:24 PM

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To promote her new book, former First Lady Jill Biden made headlines in a CBS interview by claiming she thought her husband, then-President Joe Biden had a stroke during his infamous debate implosion. Largely without questioning why Jill didn’t take him to a hospital, the launderers of liberal lies, ABC’s The View kicked off Friday’s episode by defending Jill’s initial response in propping up Joe Weekend at Bernie’s-style. They even pretended as though gaslighting America was the noble thing to do.

Fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro dismissed Jill’s lies that Joe was fine during and after the debate. “People lie after debates. Right? It's called spinning. Every time -- I have seen debates where there's clearly one candidate who has bombed and next thing you know you get the press, 'so-and-so won the debate handily,’” she argued. “She's not going to going to say, 'Joe, you bombed!' You know, he was still running.”

“She did what she thought she should,” Friday moderator Joy Behar said. Navarro agreed by suggest Jill was being a good “political spouse” and “supporting her husband.”

 

 

Navarro then bizarrely added: “I believe her in this [CBS] interview. I think Jill Biden is a truthful person.” But Navarro never answered why, if she was truthful about thinking Joe had a “stroke,” she didn’t immediately get him to a hospital.

Proving once again to be an empty chair, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t even want to talk about Jill’s lies. “But I'm not really interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn't know. I’m going to take her at her word,” she brushed past the important questions.

Farah Griffin then had something to say about how she was “told to shut up, sit down” when bringing up how Joe’s age was a major issue for voters:

A lot of why we're here in this moment that we're in where a lot of us are afraid of the direction the country is going, is because people who were raising their voices and saying, 'America deserves other options than THIS were told to shut up, sit down and not use their voice, but stand up for democracy somehow. How are you standing up for democracy if you're not allowed to have opinion on the state of the commander-in-chief.

 

 

Co-host Sunny Hostin who, on February 6, 2024, screamed, “the candidate is Joe” and demanded they all just get behind Biden, said it was nice that Jill “stands by her man” but felt she must have recognized Joe’s decline and should have said something to him to get him not to run (Click “expand”):

HOSTIN: And so I am not surprised that what she said in real time right after the debate, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden, she must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it, although she did say, I had never seen him like that and I have haven't seen him like that since.

BEHAR: Uh-huh.

HOSTIN: I can't imagine that -- they've been together so long, I can't imagine that the Joe Biden leading up to that debate she had not seen his decline.

BEHAR: So, you’re saying it would have been her duty to say the truth. Right?

HOSTIN: I think she should have privately told him, another, do you really think you should run again because he promised us he was going to be a one-term president.

Hostin also got around to finally admitting that they all witnessed Biden’s decline personally when he was on the show, and witnessed Jill propping him up. “It's been obvious when she's come on the show with Joe Biden and there have been moments where he has faltered, where he has lost his train of thought and she will jump right in. We all have seen that,” she said.

 

 

Of course, Behar couldn’t keep the focus on the Bidens and needed to throw in some whataboutisms about President Trump (Click “expand”):

BEHAR: I want to say something, though. I watched this administration, Donald Trump's. He's falling asleep at every cabinet meeting.

HOSTIN: That's right.

BEHAR: Okay, the guy is not making sense when he speaks anymore. Should Melania now stand up and say, my husband cannot do the job?

[Applause]

HOSTIN: Yes! Yes! She should.

 

 

It was co-host Sara Haines who was the only one to question why Jill didn’t seek medical attention for Joe after the debate, if she thought he had a stroke:

Sunny, the thing that gets me, you said she stands by her man. When I hear what she’s saying there, I can't help but think my first response would be, you've served your time, you got the end of this 50-year of service. You were the president for four years. Now, you served enough.

If she thought he had a stroke, when you have someone in your life that's had a medical concern your immediate reaction is, “okay, enough here.” We all know the presidency ages people. It beats them up. He's heading into another four years. I said at this table why is the family not saying we want the end with you. We want you.

Haines also vented her frustration with being told to shut up with her criticisms of Joe at the time. “I also spoke up here and got flack when I said I thought he should step out, President Biden early on,” she said. “…people are being told, shut up, don't notice his age, it's not a problem and then it became and problem and then everyone decided it was a problem. It bothers me because every time we wanted to rehash this, even at this table, people said, ‘it's over, we're done.’”

 

 

She ridiculously asserted that “fall[ing] in line” like that was “what the Republicans do. They fall in line with no thought or critical thinking.”

But Sara, that’s what Democrats did.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
May 29, 2026
11:03:29 a.m. Eastern

(…)

JOY BEHAR: So, why do you think she's saying this now? She didn't say it then. What do you make of this whole thing?

ANA NAVARRO: People lie after debates. Right? It's called spinning. Every time -- I have seen debates where there's clearly one candidate who has bombed and next thing you know you get the press, 'so-and-so won the debate handily.'

She's not going to going to say, 'Joe, you bombed!' You know, he was still running.

BEHAR: What would you have said if you were her?

NAVARRO: 'Joe, you did great!' I mean, if it's your husband running for president.

BEHAR: She did what she thought she should.

NAVARRO: I think she was doing what a political spouse and what somebody supporting her husband - at that point they didn't know he was going to continue running or not, he was still running.

I - you know, I believe her because I think -- I believe her in this interview. I think Jill Biden is a truthful person and I also think -- I suspect she's watched it a lot of times since, which is different than watching it in real time when you watch -- like we just watched it right now and both said, this is painful to watch.

BEHAR: It was painful to watch him. Yeah. You agree with that?

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, she has to spin. That's the only thing she can do the morning after. But I'm not really interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn't know. I’m going to take her at her word.

But I would say this: I came to this table the morning after the election and was not remotely surprised that Donald Trump won. There were glaring signs, I argued it at this table for two-plus years that however anyone might personally feel about Joe Biden, he was losing the country because there were concerns, not about his ability to do the job while still in office, it was that he was going to have four more years and be the oldest president in history and had seen some slowing down. Seventy-two percent of Americans said that before this debate. And he stayed in for another month after that, which led this narrow window for Kamala Harris to try to do a hail Mary and win.

A lot of why we're here in this moment that we're in where a lot of us are afraid of the direction the country is going, is because people who were raising their voices and saying, 'America deserves other options than THIS were told to shut up, sit down and not use their voice, but stand up for democracy somehow. How are you standing up for democracy if you're not allowed to have opinion on the state of the commander-in-chief.

BEHAR: I say that now too about somebody else.

[Applause]

SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s, you know - The one thing that I've always said about Jill Biden and now that I've come to know her and something that I've always admired about her is that she stands by her man and she stands by her family and it's always very obvious. It's been obvious when she's come on the show with Joe Biden and there have been moments where he has faltered, where he has lost his train of thought and she will jump right in. We all have seen that.

And so I am not surprised that what she said in real time right after the debate, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden, she must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it, although she did say, I had never seen him like that and I have haven't seen him like that since.

BEHAR: Uh-huh.

HOSTIN: I can't imagine that -- they've been together so long, I can't imagine that the Joe Biden leading up to that debate she had not seen his decline.

BEHAR: So, you’re saying it would have been her duty to say the truth. Right?

HOSTIN: I think she should have privately told him, another, do you really think you should run again because he promised us he was going to be a one-term president.

SARA HAINES: Sunny, the thing that gets me, you said she stands by her man. When I hear what she’s saying there, I can't help but think my first response would be, you've served your time, you got the end of this 50-year of service. You were the president for four years. Now, you served enough.

If she thought he had a stroke, when you have someone in your life that's had a medical concern your immediate reaction is, “okay, enough here.” We all know the presidency ages people. It beats them up. He's heading into another four years. I said at this table why is the family not saying we want the end with you. We want you.

[Applause]

BEHAR: I want to say something, though. I watched this administration, Donald Trump's. He's falling asleep at every cabinet meeting.

HOSTIN: That's right.

BEHAR: Okay, the guy is not making sense when he speaks anymore. Should Melania now stand up and say, my husband cannot do the job?

[Applause]

HOSTIN: Yes! Yes! She should.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Also --

HOSTIN: Privately. I'm not saying publicly. I'm saying privately. You tell your spouse, honey --

BEHAR: You think Melania can tell Donald to get down - to step down?! And he’s going to do it?

FARAH GRIFFIN: No, I don't think anyone believes that.

HOSTIN: She should try to council him. I do.

(…)

11:09:26 a.m. Eastern

HAINES: With what Alyssa is saying, I also spoke up here and got flack when I said I thought he should step out, President Biden early on.

BEHAR: Well, because of who he was running against.

HAINES: No, right after the debate I said, you know what, people have been concerned in the fact that it's polling so high and people are being told, shut up, don't notice his age, it's not a problem and then it became and problem and then everyone decided it was a problem. It bothers me because every time we wanted to rehash this, even at this table, people said, ‘it's over, we're done.’

Part of the distrust as an independent that I got furious at was don't tell me to fall in line. That's what the Republicans do. They fall in line with no thought or critical thinking.

(…)

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