First Lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband said he is getting “even more worried” about the state of the country after watching President Joe Biden’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
“I wish he would have the cognitive test,” Bill Stevenson, who was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975, told The Post Saturday. “George asked him about three or four times. It’s what the whole world is thinking about. I feel badly that this guy is someone who now can’t make a decision in the middle of the night.”
“Watching…it was clear Joe Biden has deeper issues,” Stevenson added. “He was very defensive.”
President Biden did little to quell increasing doubts about his political future in the rambling 22-minute interview with Stephanopoulos — during which many of the same issues that marred the Democrat’s debate performance last week resurfaced.
Biden, 81, gave multiple excuses for his shocking performance at the first presidential showdown against Donald Trump, saying that he was “exhausted” and “sick” with a “bad cold” before claiming that he let Trump’s remarks “distract me” — and forgetting whether he had watched footage of his meltdown.
“I actually hope Biden stays in the race and gets beaten by Trump,” Stevenson said Saturday. “That would be best for the country. My life was better, the economy was better, everything was better under Trump.”
Stevenson, 75, who lives a mile and a half from the Bidens in Delaware, told The Post last week he “no longer recognizes” his ex-wife Jill.
“The Dr. Jill Biden who I’ve seen on TV in the last five years is not the same person I married or that I recognize in any way,” he said. “She’s matriculated into a completely different woman.”
“I’ve heard the word ‘elder abuse’ referring to her but that is not something that I have any way of knowing,” Stevenson added Saturday. “But she seems to have turned into this person who is am going to push him to the very edge. I think they should both step aside.”
Stevenson, who remarried and has a family of his own, once supported Biden, when he ran as vice-president with Barack Obama and when Biden ran for the US Senate in 1972.
In 2020, after Biden was named the Democratic presidential nominee, he alleged that Jill and the then-junior senator’s relationship began as an affair.