Jon Favreau: Bidens Didn’t Just Lie About The Debate, They “Gaslighted Everyone And Told Us We Were All Overreacting”
Obama speechwriter and “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Favreau reacted to Jill Biden’s comments on how her husband, former President Joe Biden, performed at the 2024 presidential debate. Favreau argued that Democrats continue to underestimate the political fallout from concerns how Biden’s condition was handled during the 2024 campaign. “I totally disagree with people who are like, no one’s gonna care about Biden in 2028. Everyone’s putting into the past most Democratic primary voters like Joe Biden,” Favreau said. “I don’t think they appreciated being f*cking lied to by Joe Biden, Jill Biden and their entire f*cking campaign who didn’t just lie about the debate performance but gaslighted everyone and told us we were all overreacting, bedwetters, that their polls were fine, that the f*cking debate was fine. And now Joe Biden’s like, oh yeah, we were lying the whole time.”
TOMMY VIETOR, ‘POD SAVE AMERICA’ CO-HOST: Yes, it is profoundly frustrated. I’m also very triggered this morning by another totally different report. I don’t know if you’ve seen the reports about Jill Biden’s book. JON FAVREAU, ‘POD SAVE AMERICA’ CO-HOST: Yeah, you can bet that I was triggered as well. VIETOR: Former first lady, for those that don’t know, wrote a book. Apparently, the point of this book is to dispel this idea that she was part of a cover-up of Joe Biden’s broader health problems or cognitive decline. Not sure that’s- FAVREAU: Yeah, basically what she says is, no, no, no, I was just part of the coverup about the debate performance. VIETOR: Yeah, so she talks about her candid reactions to the 2024 June Trump-Biden debate. Well, this is from this, I think they gave the exclusive to the Atlantic or the Atlantic got the book. First lady Jill Biden wondered if her husband had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television. Quote, “Is he short-circuiting?” Jill Biden thought. “Is this a stroke?” That’s another quote. “I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?” So despite thinking your husband had a stroke- FAVREAU: Great job, Joe, you answered all the questions. VIETOR: They went to a rally, they went to Waffle House. Like you didn’t wanna take him to a doctor if he thought he had a stroke? FAVREAU: People, I tweeted about this yesterday, we’ve both been mad together about this. And a lot of people are like, let it go, who cares, it’s in the past. Zaid Jilani actually captured how I feel about this in a tweet. He was like, to me, it’s an underrated factor in how distrusted Democrats are that they systematically lied about Biden’s condition and in some cases still are. I totally agree with this. I totally- VIETOR: I hear it all the time. FAVREAU: I totally disagree with people who are like, no one’s gonna care about Biden in 2028. Everyone’s putting into the past most Democratic primary voters like Joe Biden. No, I think most Democratic primary voters think that Joe Biden accomplished some great things as president and appreciate that he beat Donald Trump in 2020. I don’t think they appreciated being f*cking lied to by Joe Biden, Jill Biden and their entire f*cking campaign who didn’t just lie about the debate performance but gaslighted everyone and told us we were all overreacting, bedwetters, that their polls were fine, that the f*cking debate was fine. And now Joe Biden’s like, oh yeah, we were lying the whole time.
