There are few doubts in the White House about Jill “Lady Macbeth” Biden’s role in covering up her husband’s cognitive deficits as she urged him to run for re-election.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made that point crystal clear from the press room podium Thursday, saying the former first lady “needs to answer” for “lying to the American people” and “shielding her husband away from the cameras.”
For the normally circumspect Leavitt, it was a damning indictment.
“I think, frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw and what she knew,” she told reporters at a White House briefing.
“Anybody looking again at the videos and photo evidence of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a little bit of common sense can see this was a clear cover-up, and Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that coverup.”
Some, like Leo Terrell, a senior counselor in the DOJ’s civil rights office, went so far as to say Jill was guilty of “elder abuse.”
Of course, Joe Biden’s delusional ambition is most at fault.
He knew what he was doing when he ran for president in 2019 but needed teleprompters to recite a basic stump speech that he used to know by heart. He knew what he was doing when he decided to run again in 2024, despite his health problems.
‘Wizard of Oz-type’
What is becoming clear is that the social-climbing former first lady and the aide she calls her “work husband,” Arizona-born former child actor Anthony Bernal, played a bigger role in this con job than previously has been acknowledged.
David Hogg, recently ousted as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Deterrian Jones, a former Biden White House staffer, point the finger at Bernal as the chief puppeteer in a new undercover video from Project Veritas released last week.
Bernal had “an enormous amount of power,” said Hogg.
Jones described Jill’s diminutive gay factotum as “scary … like a Wizard of Oz-type figure. The general public wouldn’t know what he looked like, but he wielded enormous power.”
According to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, “Original Sin,” Jill was one of the most powerful first ladies in history, and that gave her Rasputin-like senior adviser outsized influence among the “Politburo” that controlled her husband.
When Biden was hidden away during the 2020 campaign in his Delaware basement using the COVID pandemic as an excuse, Bernal was one of only two staffers allowed to move to Wilmington to tend to their daily needs.
When Biden was holed up at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach last year, wrestling with the decision to abandon his campaign after his disastrous debate performance, Bernal was one of only four aides allowed by his side.
Bernal, who boasted the title of “special assistant to the president” and reportedly earned the maximum White House salary, began working for Jill during the 2008 presidential campaign when he was hired to help her transition into the role of second lady.
While he was obsequious with the Bidens, he was loathed and feared by other White House staffers: “He would not be welcome at my funeral,” a longtime Biden aide told the authors. Another said Bernal was “the worst person they had ever met.”
Bernal enforced a strict culture of loyalty, interrogating aides he felt didn’t measure up, and using his power to cast out “potential heretics.”
Full op-ed over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: Jill Biden’s ‘work husband’ Anthony Bernal may have played a key role in covering up Joe’s cognitive decline https://t.co/J1qpD3N8KQ pic.twitter.com/EMa0gowwjZ
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) June 2, 2025