CNN’s Abby Phillip Accuses Jill Biden of Lying About Joe Biden’s Disastrous 2024 Debate

CNN anchor Abby Phillip is not buying Jill Biden‘s sudden candor about her husband’s infamous 2024 debate meltdown.

As Globe previously reported, Jill, 74, revealed in a forthcoming interview on CBS News Sunday Morning that she feared former President Joe Biden was suffering a stroke during his disastrous June 2024 debate against President Donald Trump. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,” she told CBS’ Rita Braver.

But on Wednesday’s episode of CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip, the host, 37, wasted no time highlighting the glaring contradiction between that fear and what Jill actually said publicly on debate night. According to a Thursday, May 28 report by the Daily Mail, the show played a clip of Jill offering her husband an effusive on-stage review in Georgia immediately after the debate. “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts,” she told him at the time.

Joe, 83, withdrew from the presidential race more than three weeks after the debate, a period during which his wife, son Hunter Biden, 56, and other family members continued insisting he was capable of serving another four years, according to the report.

“I appreciate that we now get to see at least some version of a truth that she’s putting out there, because I think, yeah, the conversation should be had about the deceptiveness that was behind this,” Phillip said, per the outlet

“What kind of political system covers that up, and makes it OK to lie to people about what everybody knows is true?” the CNN host added, per the outlet.

The rest of the CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip panel echoed Phillip’s frustration. Former Michigan congressman Peter Meijer questioned why the topic was even resurfacing, asking, “Why the hell are they talking about this again?” according to the Daily Mail. Political commentator Kmele Foster pushed further, noting that the obvious follow-up question in the CBS interview should have been, “So why did you lie at the time?” per the outlet.

Jill’s full interview on CBS News Sunday Morning is set to air on Sunday, May 31, ahead of the release of her memoir, View from the East Wing: A Memoir, which hits shelves on Monday, June 2.