Jill Biden’s book is the last thing we need right now |
Forget the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight being held on the White House lawn, if you want to tune in to a far more amusing brawl, may I suggest Hunter Biden v Jake Tapper? The CNN anchor is categorically unimpressed with Jill Biden’s new memoir, View from the East Wing, and has joined a chorus of voices accusing the former first lady of rewriting history and dodging accountability for the 2024 loss. In response, Hunter has accused Tapper of having the wrong priorities.
“So let me get this straight,” Hunter wrote on Twitter/X on Wednesday. “Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom. Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land. Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan. Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted. And I know: ‘But what about your paintings, Hunter?’ Please.”
Hunter is absolutely right about the Trump-Kushners and their laundry list of shady dealings. However, that doesn’t mean that his family should be immune from criticism. Jill Biden decided that now was a great time to write a book and go on a book tour. Of course people are going to scrutinize it! What did you think was going to happen?
It doesn’t help that Jill Biden has made some very dubious claims in her memoir. She writes, for example, that if Joe Biden had exhibited cognitive impairment, neither she nor her staff would have hesitated to do something about it: “But he was nowhere near that point in the summer of 2024.” As Tapper writes in response: “All of that is very difficult to believe, if not just downright false.”
And then there’s the disastrous debate with Donald Trump, which ended Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. Jill has said that she thought Joe was having a stroke during the debate, and was “scared to death”. Trump, ever the opportunist, has seized on this, asking on Fox News why the pair then went to a Waffle House after the debate. He quipped that, even in good times, his wife........