Following former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer, a journalist and socialite from Washington accused former first lady Jill Biden of “elder abuse” in a shocking new interview.

In a lengthy interview with journalist Tara Palmeri on the “Tara Palmeri Show” on Wednesday, Sally Quinn, a D.C. insider and veteran columnist for The Washington Post, attacked the former first lady. She claimed that despite his apparent cognitive decline, Jill Biden pressured him to run for reelection.

“Jill Biden is to blame for this. His wife is Jill Biden. Additionally, if Jill Biden had told him, “Joe, you can’t do it,” Quinn informed Palmeri, “He wouldn’t have run.” “I just think it was a terrible disservice to the country, and she was obviously in favor of his running.”

After the “hideous” June 2024 presidential debate, which sparked debate over whether Biden was fit to serve another four years, Quinn said she was appalled by Jill Biden’s continued push forward and mobilization of support for her husband’s campaign.

“She wasn’t keeping him safe. Really, I believed it to be elder abuse,” Quinn said.

Quinn, who has been dining with the Washington establishment for decades, claimed that the elite in Washington were concerned about Biden’s capacity to manage another four years in the White House and that they were aware of his apparent deteriorating health.

“Everyone believed that he shouldn’t run,” she informed Palmeri. “He was running, and it was awful for the party, so people were just upset.”

“I think everyone was appalled that his wife and staff put him in a position where he was permitted to run,” she added. People sympathized with him. However, his self-centered choice to remain in office is still evident in what transpired.

The journalist was well-known for being married to Ben Bradlee, the editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, who passed away in 2014 from dementia.

She claimed that Biden’s tendency to forget things and to stray reminded her of the way her late husband behaved in his final years.

Regarding Biden, she remarked, “It seems to me like the start of dementia.”

Along with the rest of the nation, the D.C. insider expressed shock at learning of Biden’s late-stage cancer diagnosis and questioned how it could not have been detected earlier.

“It should have been diagnosed long ago, and the president of the United States has the best medical care in the world,” she said. “I find it difficult to accept that they were unaware of it and held off on disclosing it until it became excessively violent.”

The former president’s last known prostate cancer screening was performed in 2014, a Biden representative told Fox News.

Following the publication of the new book “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by CNN journalist Jake Tapper and Axios journalist Alex Thompson, which details allegations of a White House cover-up of the then-president’s apparent cognitive decline, Biden’s health is once again in the public eye.

A request for comment was not answered by Jill Biden’s office.