# Inside Jill Biden’s fiercely guarded East Wing: Ugly blame game over ‘catatonic’ Joe… how the first lady would do anything to make the president ‘look good’… and the ‘work husband’ who would ‘crawl into a coffin with her’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/inside-jill-bidens-fiercely-guarded-east-wing-ugly-blame-game-over-catatonic-joe-how-the-first-lady-would-do-anything-to-make-the-president-look-good-and-the-work-husband-who-woul/
- Published: 2026-11-15T16:53:31+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T17:37:21+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16278469/Jill-Biden-East-Wing-Lady-Macbeth-book.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- A new book makes critical claims about Jill Biden’s time as first lady.
- Her team allegedly focused on limiting political exposure during Kabul’s fall.
- The account also examines her causes and close aide Anthony Bernal.

## Summary

The article recounts claims in Azadeh Moaveni’s new book about Jill Biden’s time as first lady, portraying her as closely focused on protecting Joe Biden and his presidency. It says that during the 2021 fall of Kabul, while other former first ladies helped organise evacuations for Afghan women, Jill Biden’s team allegedly prioritised shielding her from public anger and political fallout.

The book also argues that Biden stepped back from initiatives when they became awkward for the administration, including work on migrant family reunification and support for military families. It describes her early appeal to teachers and mothers, her role in the Joining Forces initiative, and her close relationship with longtime aide Anthony Bernal, whom staff reportedly called her “work husband”. These are the author’s accounts and allegations, presented in the article as claims from the book and former staff.

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