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In her new memoir, former First Lady Jill Biden reflects on Joe Biden’s widely criticised debate performance against US President Donald Trump nearly two years ago, questioning whether it might have been better to openly acknowledge how poor it was instead of reassuring supporters afterwards, AP reported.The debate marked a turning point in Biden’s re-election campaign, intensifying doubts about whether the then-81-year-old president was fit for another term. He eventually withdrew from the race amid pressure from within the Democratic Party and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who later lost the election to Donald Trump.In “View from the East Wing,” a memoir about her White House years that's being published next Tuesday, she said she still doesn’t know why her husband performed so disastrously that day.The Associated Press obtained a copy of the book's 274-page manuscript, which includes her first public comments about the debate and the ensuing chain of events that sent Joe Biden back to private life in Delaware sooner than he had envisioned.The book also discusses Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis after leaving office, as well as their son Hunter’s federal gun charges trial, among other challenges during his presidency. It further highlights how Jill Biden managed the demands of being First Lady alongside her continued teaching career.She thought Joe might be having a stroke while debating TrumpAs reported by AP, Jill Biden writes that her husband “looked bleary” in their hotel suite in Atlanta before the debate. She was confident he would do well, she said, because big events energized him. But when the CNN-sponsored event began, “I immediately noticed that Joe didn't look good. He didn't seem himself from the opening.”A few minutes in, he said something out of turn about how “we finally beat Medicare.”“Is he short-circuiting? I thought,” she wrote. “Is this a stroke? It felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching.”She wondered if he had been drugged or was experiencing a medical emergency.He improved as the debate went on, “but not enough to reassure me or anyone watching that he was okay. He clearly wasn't,” Jill Biden said. “I'd never seen that look on his face before in my life.”As they walked offstage afterward, he used colorful language to whisper to her that he had messed up, which she took as a “sign of his having returned to himself.”But "to this day, I still don't know what happened," she wrote. They attended a post-debate rally and dropped in at a Waffle House before traveling to North Carolina for a next-day appearance.The official explanation at the time from the White House and others close to the president was that he was suffering from a cold. But Jill Biden said she wonders if they should have acknowledged what millions of people saw — “that he looked very unwell in that debate.”“The biggest lesson for us, I think, was that if you don't explain something well enough then the question won't go away,” she wrote. “There was never a satisfying enough explanation offered for Joe's debate performance, and a lot of people never got over it.”Biden’s performance in the debate crystallised the concerns of many voters that he was too old to continue serving as president. It sparked a fresh round of calls for him to consider stepping aside as the party’s nominee as fellow Democrats feared a Trump return to the White House if Biden remained as their candidate, AP reported.The drumbeat of calls for him to leave the race started before the debate had ended and, “in the days to come, it would grow louder and louder,” Jill Biden wrote.Fired from teaching at Northern Virginia Community CollegeJill Biden reveals that while she was first lady, she was terminated by the school where she had taught English and writing since 2009. She had signed her annual contract in July 2023, and a termination letter signed by the college president was hand-delivered that winter.The

The former first son was approached by paparazzi near Wilshire Boulevard, where he responded to questions regarding litigation tied to audio recordings connected to Joe Biden’s classified documents investigation.Hunter Biden has largely remained out of public view in recent months, making the Los Angeles sighting one of his few public appearances this year.(AP)Hunter Biden was briefly questioned by reporters in West Los Angeles this week about ongoing legal battles involving former President Joe Biden and the recently released government UFO files, according to Fox News.The former first son was approached by paparazzi near Wilshire Boulevard, where he responded to questions regarding litigation tied to audio recordings connected to Joe Biden’s classified documents investigation.Reporter asks about Biden interview tapesAccording to The New York Post, a reporter asked Hunter Biden about efforts by the Department of Justice to release interview tapes involving his father and conversations linked to a biography project.“Hunter, what do you think of the DOJ when they release your father’s interview tapes from the biography that he did?” the reporter was quoted as asking.“What are you talking about?” Hunter Biden reportedly responded.The exchange comes amid continuing legal efforts seeking the release of audio recordings connected to the classified-documents investigation involving Joe Biden.Audio recordings tied to classified documents probeThe controversy centers on recordings from interviews conducted during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Joe Biden’s handling of classified material.The probe examined Biden’s discussions of sensitive documents during conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.According to The Post, Hur’s investigation stated that Zwonitzer had deleted certain files, although the Justice Department later recovered the material.The conservative legal group Oversight Project subsequently sued the DOJ seeking public release of audio recordings from Joe Biden’s interviews with Hur.Joe Biden has denied wrongdoing and previously said he fully cooperated with investigators.“I don’t know, man — I hadn’t heard that one,” Hunter Biden reportedly said during the exchange.Hunter Biden briefly comments on UFO filesThe reporter also questioned Hunter Biden about the recently released government UFO files.“It’s crazy right?” Hunter Biden replied, according to The Post, though he did not further elaborate on the topic.The UFO records were released following a declassification effort ordered by President Donald Trump and have reignited debate over unidentified anomalous phenomena and alleged government secrecy.Hunter Biden has largely remained out of public view in recent months, making the Los Angeles sighting one of his few public appearances this year.Stay updated with the latest Trending, India , World and US news. HomeNewsUs News‘What are you talking about?’ Hunter Biden reacts sharply when asked about Biden classified documents probeMore