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‘The View’ host ‘disappointed’ Jill Biden enabled husband’s campaign despite visible cognitive slips
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said she was disappointed in former first lady Jill Biden on Friday and doubted that she never saw signs of her husband, former President Joe Biden, declining.
“I’m a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden. She must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it,” Hostin said. “Although she did say, ‘I’d never seen him like that, and I haven’t seen him like that since.’ I can’t imagine that the Joe — they’ve been together so long — I can’t imagine that the Joe Biden leading up to that debate, she had not seen him,”
Fellow co-host Joy Behar asked if she thought it was Jill’s responsibility to say something to her husband about running for a second term.
“I think she should have privately told him, ‘Joe, do you really think you should run again?’ Because he promised us that he’s going to be a one-term president,” Hostin responded.
When asked by CBS News’ Rita Braver in an interview set to air in full on Sunday if she had seen signs of Joe declining, Jill Biden said she hadn’t.
“No,” Biden responded. “He was the same, the essence of the same Joe Biden, but yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older… It’s a very intense job. I think it ages you — quickly.”
In the same interview, she said that she worried her husband was having a stroke during the infamous 2024 debate that ultimately led to him dropping out of the race.
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” she told CBS. “I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
JILL BIDEN SAYS SHE THOUGHT JOE WAS HAVING A STROKE DURING HIS DISASTROUS 2024 DEBATE PERFORMANCE
Co-host Sara Haines agreed with Hostin’s criticism during the show on Friday.
“When I hear what she’s saying there, I can’t help but think my first response would be: ‘You’ve served your time. You got the end of this 50 years of service. You were the president for four years. Now let’s — you’ve served enough,'” Haines said.
She argued that if Jill thought Joe might have had a stroke, her immediate reaction should have been, “OK, enough here.”
Haines also argued that the Democratic Party should have handled Biden’s decline differently, and said, “It was the secrecy and lack of trust, and now we’re being confirmed, ‘No, we weren’t honest.’”
Following the June 2024 presidential debate, several of “The View” co-hosts admitted that it might be time for then-President Biden to exit the race. “I think President Biden needs to step down and be replaced,” Haines said.
“I’ve had concerns for a couple of years about Biden’s age. It was stunningly worse than I expected, the performance,” Griffin said.
“Maybe he needs to go,” Hostin conceded.
After Biden abandoned his re-election bid a few weeks later, co-host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Democrats who pressured him to quit the race. “The messaging that we have put out to people over a certain age is horrific. We have basically said, ‘Hey, you know what? We kind of think if you’re over a certain age, you don’t really have what it takes to do the job that you’re doing.’”
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The Bidens appeared on “The View” in May 2025, during which Jill had jumped in to help defend him against the many stories about his declining health.
“They are wrong,” the former president said of the stories about his health. “There’s nothing to sustain that, number one. Number two, you know, think of what we left with. We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit — end up over a million people dying, a million people dying.”
“And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into in the interest of time,” Biden continued. “And so we went to work, and we got it done and, you know, one of the things that — well, I’m —”
Then Jill jumped in, addressing co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, “One of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us.”
“And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he’d get up, he’d put in a full day, and then at night he would — I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop,” she added.
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Former California mayor admits secretly working for China, spreading Beijing propaganda in US
The former mayor of a Southern California city admitted in federal court Friday that she acted as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, formally pleading guilty in a case prosecutors have described as a brazen effort to spread Beijing-backed propaganda inside the United States.
Eileen Li Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying U.S. authorities, a felony offense carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine and a $100 special assessment fee.
Federal prosecutors allege Wang acted “at the direction and control” of Chinese government officials between 2020 and 2022, coordinating with individuals in the United States to distribute pro-Beijing messaging without registering with the U.S. attorney general as required by law. The conduct described in the case occurred before Wang was elected to the Arcadia City Council in 2022 and later became mayor through the city’s rotating system.
Wang appeared in court Friday wearing a navy suit with gold buttons and was accompanied by her attorneys. Although the court provided a Mandarin interpreter, Wang chose to proceed in English throughout the hearing.
CALIFORNIA MAYOR ACCUSED OF SECRETLY WORKING FOR CHINA, SPREADING PROPAGANDA WHILE IN OFFICE: FEDS
Before accepting the plea, the judge placed Wang under oath and questioned her extensively about her state of mind and understanding of the proceedings. Wang then waived her right to a grand jury indictment and her right to a jury trial.
A Justice Department attorney reviewed the charge against Wang, knowingly acting as an agent of a foreign government without notifying U.S. authorities, and outlined the maximum penalties she faces. Wang told the court she understood she was pleading guilty to a felony offense and understood the potential consequences, including the conditions of supervised release.
Prosecutors also reviewed the constitutional rights Wang would be giving up by entering the plea, including certain appeal rights. The judge then asked Wang a series of questions to verify she understood those waivers.
At one point, defense attorneys attempted to waive the government’s reading of the factual basis supporting the charge, but prosecutors insisted the facts be read aloud in open court.
When the judge asked how she pleaded, Wang responded: “Yes, guilty.”
The judge accepted the plea and scheduled sentencing for Oct. 6, 2026, at 9 a.m. local time. Wang was released on bond pending sentencing and will have an opportunity to address the court before her sentence is imposed.
The guilty plea marks the latest development in a case federal officials have pointed to as a warning about Chinese government efforts to influence American institutions and public discourse through covert operations inside the United States.
According to court documents, Wang worked alongside Yaoning “Mike” Sun, a convicted Chinese agent already serving a four-year federal prison sentence, to operate a website posing as a local Chinese-American news outlet.
Prosecutors described the website as a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist Party that published content supplied directly by Chinese government officials.
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In one exchange detailed in court filings, a Chinese government official sent Wang a pre-written article denying allegations of forced labor and genocide in China’s Xinjiang region. Prosecutors said Wang posted the article online within minutes and sent the official a link to the published piece. The official allegedly responded: “So fast, thank you everyone.”
In another instance, prosecutors said Wang made edits to content at Beijing’s request and later responded, “Thank you leader.”
Authorities also allege Wang communicated with convicted Chinese operative John Chen, a figure prosecutors say has ties to China’s intelligence apparatus and connections to Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to court documents, Wang asked Chen to distribute messaging and wrote, “This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send.”
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“Individuals elected to public office in the United States should act only for the people of the United States that they represent,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said when the charges were announced.
“It is deeply concerning that someone who previously received and executed directives from PRC government officials is now in a position of public trust at all.”
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli called the case part of an ongoing effort to counter Chinese influence operations in the United States.
“Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” Essayli said. “This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China’s efforts to corrupt our institutions.”
FBI Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky said Wang’s conduct should serve as a warning to others who seek to influence American politics on behalf of foreign governments.
“By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” Rozhavsky said. “Let this serve as a clear warning individuals who act on behalf of foreign governments to influence our democracy will be identified, investigated, and brought to justice.”
Wang resigned from the Arcadia City Council and mayor’s office after federal charges were announced. City officials have maintained that the conduct described by prosecutors occurred before Wang took office and said an internal review found no city finances, staff or decision-making processes were involved.
“The allegations at the center of this case, that a foreign government sought to exert influence over a local elected official, are deeply troubling,” the city previously said in a statement. “We take them seriously.”
Fox News’ Alex Rego and Matt Finn contributed to this report.
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