Jill Biden is set to lift the lid on the grim three weeks when the Democratic Party drew the knives out for Joe amid mounting claims that his inner circle were covering up his failing health.

The political spouse of 50 years has never publicly discussed the final stretch that ended her husband’s career, including accusations that she stood at the center of a ‘palace guard’ that kept his decline a secret.

Now she is finally breaking her silence in a new book, ‘View from the East Wing: A Memoir,’ that will be published June 2.  

Jill said the book is a ‘reflection of my four years as first lady’ and that writing it was, for her, somewhat healing. 

‘It was kind of cathartic for me to write it, and I wrote about all the, you know, sometimes painful – but other times, most of it really beautiful moments that Joe and I shared during his presidency,’ she said.

Jill declined Tuesday to discuss any of those moments, including whether she will address claims that she, chief among a small circle of loyalists, actively managed what the public was allowed to see of a president whose condition had become an open secret inside the West Wing. 

The dam finally burst in June 2024 when a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump laid bare Biden’s cognitive decline, in which he struggled, in a raspy voice, to land his points and often appeared to lose his train of thought.

Aides claimed he was suffering from a cold, but that only fanned the flames of what critics claimed was a years-long cover-up.

Joe Biden, left, and First Lady Jill Biden walk on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, October 15, 2024

First Lady Jill Biden speaks at a Get Out the Vote campaign event for Harris-Walz in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, on November 3, 2024

Special Counsel Robert Hur had already described Biden earlier that year as a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’ who struggled to remember the date of his son Beau’s death. 

The public had seen him fall over on numerous occasions, on the stairs to Air Force One, at speaking engagements and even spectacularly tumbling off his bicycle. 

Biden at first insisted he would stay in the race.

But after three weeks the 81-year-old withdrew, announcing his decision in a letter posted to X while isolating with Covid at his Rehoboth Beach home in Delaware.

Even the signature on that letter was immediately disputed, with online sleuths claiming the loops and spacing indicated the use of an autopen.

The frequent use of the autopen, often cited by Trump, has become a specter that haunts Biden’s presidency to this day. 

Biden’s vice president Kamala Harris went on to become the party’s nominee.  

Jill was livid that her husband had been forced out and privately seethed at Harris, the pair remaining icy ever since, with her ultimate defeat to Trump only souring relations further. 

She said the book offers a ‘more balanced view’ of her husband’s presidency in an apparent dig at the critics.

A House Oversight Committee report published last year accused top advisors of hiding Biden’s decline, describing it as one of the biggest scandals in US history.

Jill said: ‘I have put things in perspective.’ 

Vice President Kamala Harris and first lady Jill Biden attend a ceremony during the National Veterans Day Observance in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 11, 2024

The memoir is also a tribute to women who, like herself, juggle multiple roles.

‘It’s also a story about my being able to balance life, you know, as a working woman and as a mother, a grandmother, a first lady,’ she said.

During her four years in the role, Jill, 74, made history as the first first lady to continue the career she had before entering the White House.

She had taught English and writing for decades at the community college level, and she continued teaching twice a week at a Northern Virginia school while serving as first lady.

She has one daughter, Ashley, with Biden, and helped him raise his sons Beau and Hunter following the tragic death of his first wife in a car crash in 1972. The Bidens have seven grandchildren.

Biden’s office announced last May that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer and that it had spread to his bones. He’s receiving treatment.

Jill said it was ‘quite a shock getting the diagnosis’ for her husband, who’s now 83.

‘The fact that it is in his bones means that he will have cancer, you know, all his lifetime,’ Jill said. She said the doctors say he will ‘live out his natural life.’

‘Like most retired couples, he’ll probably drive me crazy till the end of it,’ she joked.

She said he visits Washington at least once a week for meetings or to give speeches.

Jill also writes about serving during a unique period in American history, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the January 6 Capitol riot, the publisher Gallery Books said. 

Her husband was sworn into office just two weeks after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol over claims the election had been rigged.

Biden’s first year in office was dominated by the federal response to the pandemic and, while he mostly stayed at the White House, Jill wore face mask and traveled around the country to encourage people to get their vaccinations.

She also continued her advocacy on behalf of military families, education and community colleges, cancer prevention and women’s health initiatives.

Before the White House, Jill served as second lady from 2009 to 2017, during her husband’s two terms as Barack Obama’s vice president. 

She currently chairs the Milken Institute’s Women’s Health Network.

Jill is also the author of ‘Where the Light Enters,’ published in 2019, in which she wrote about meeting Biden, then a US senator from Delaware, and building a life with him. She has also written three children’s books.