‘Say It To My Face’: Jill Biden Snaps, Fires Back At Critics

Former first lady Jill Biden is firing back at Democrats who say her new memoir drags the party back through the painful wreckage of the 2024 election.

Biden made the sharp remark Wednesday during a New York City event promoting her book, “View from the East Wing,” after being asked about criticism from former Biden White House spokesman Andrew Bates.

Bates had questioned why the book reopened a bruising internal debate Democrats would rather leave buried.

“I don’t see why that painful conversation for the party needed to be publicly reopened right now,” Bates said, according to the New York Post.

Jill Biden did not exactly take it quietly.

“I want to say to Andrew: Call me up, and say it to my face, buddy,” Biden responded.

She then defended the book, arguing that it was hardly a political tell-all.

Biden said the memoir had only “one chapter on politics.”

Still, that one chapter has been enough to reopen uncomfortable questions about former President Joe Biden’s failed 2024 campaign, his disastrous debate performance and the long-running concerns about his age and fitness for another term.

During the event, Jill Biden addressed the June debate that badly damaged her husband’s reelection campaign and fueled Democratic panic about whether he should have been running at all.

She said she would have been honest with him if she had seen how he looked before the debate, but said she was not present for his preparation sessions at Camp David.

Democrats are (rightfully) mad at Jill Biden for rehashing the Biden White House scandal at a very inopportune time.

Her response? “Come say it to my face.”

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“I was out campaigning,” she said. “So I didn’t see him at debate camp at Camp David.”

Biden also admitted that watching the debate remains painful.

“I never wanted to see that moment again in my life but since I’ve been doing press for two days, they’re like, ‘Watch this clip,’” she said.

Then came the admission that many voters had already made for themselves.

“I saw Joe aging. My God, we all saw him aging,” she admitted.

The remarks came one day after Biden made headlines during an appearance on “The View,” where she acknowledged that, based on what she knows now, her husband would not have been able to serve another four years in the White House.

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked whether Jill Biden believed the former president would have been in a good place to complete another term.

“Well, not from what I know now,” Biden said. “My God. Who knew? It was so shocking to get that cancer diagnosis. I mean, we had, you know, here I was, I’m looking through travel magazines like, ‘Oh, where are we going to go? What are we going to do,’ and then we get this cancer diagnosis and I think, what am I doing? Like, our whole life has changed now. It was just shocking.”

The comments underscore the awkward position Jill Biden now occupies as she promotes a memoir that revisits one of the Democratic Party’s most damaging political collapses in recent memory.

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For months, critics accused the Biden inner circle of shielding the public from the extent of the former president’s decline while insisting he was fit for another four years.

Now, as Biden defends her book, even some Democrats appear frustrated that the conversation is back in public view.

But Jill Biden made clear she is not interested in taking hits from former aides quietly.

If critics want to challenge her version of events, her message was blunt: say it to her face.

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