NBC Today co-host Craig Melvin did something extraordinary on Sunday — he committed an act of journalism against Jill Biden. During a 14-minute interview that aired June 1, Melvin pressed the former First Lady on her husband's cognitive collapse and the Hunter Biden pardon with the kind of follow-up questions that NBC usually reserves for Republican guests. Somewhere, a network executive is hyperventilating into a paper bag.
NBC grilling a Biden. On camera. With receipts. Check outside for the four horsemen.
As NewsBusters reported, the interview quickly went sideways for Jill when Melvin zeroed in on the June 2024 debate — you know, the one where the entire country watched Joe Biden reboot like a malfunctioning Dell laptop on live television. Melvin didn't let her dance around it, either. "In the days and weeks after [the 2024 debate], you continued to insist that the President was fine," he said. "How do you square thinking that he may have had a stroke with what you were saying in the days and weeks after?"
Jill's answer was a masterclass in missing the point. "He gets off the stage, I see he appears to be okay... I'm his wife. I've got to lift him up," she said. Lift him up. Not tell the American people the truth about the man holding the nuclear codes. Just "lift him up." That's sweet in a Hallmark movie. It's terrifying in a democracy.
Melvin wasn't done. He reminded her that back in August 2023, 77 percent of respondents — including 7 in 10 Democrats — said Joe Biden was too old to serve. Not Republicans. Not Fox News viewers. Seven out of ten people in his own party. Jill's response? "We are moving on. You know, Democrats have a great future." Moving on. The unofficial Biden family motto whenever accountability comes knocking.
Then came the Hunter pardon, and Jill's performance somehow got worse. She defended the decision by saying "the administration changed... we could not see our son go to jail." Melvin pressed on whether this contradicted Joe's repeated public promises never to pardon Hunter. Her explanation? Joe simply "changed his mind." Changed his mind. That's it. No principle. No reasoning. Just vibes.
Melvin even asked the question every honest person in America has been asking for two years: "Have you made peace with the idea, perhaps, that a decision that could have been good for the Biden family may not have been necessarily good for the office of the President?" Jill responded by insisting her book "isn't about politics." Melvin's dry reply — "You're right. The book isn't about politics" — carried the energy of a man who knows he's talking to a wall.
The whole thing was especially jarring next to a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Rita Braver that aired the same weekend, where the questions landed like pillows. Meanwhile, Special Counsel Robert Hur's report on Joe's mental fitness and George Clooney's own New York Times op-ed calling for Biden to step aside have already entered the historical record. Jill's revisionist book tour isn't rewriting that history — it's confirming it.
Hunter owned that gun for 11 days. Joe Biden's own party begged him to step down. And Jill Biden went on NBC expecting the usual protection racket — only to find out that even the friendliest networks have a limit to how much water they'll carry. When Craig Melvin is the toughest interview you've faced in two years, the media has been failing you and the country for a very long time.
Watch the entire interview to see for yourself just how selfish the Biden family is and how they continue to put themselves ashead of what's best for the country...