Audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 interview with Joe Biden was released on Friday evening.
The portion of the audio released showed Biden repeatedly struggling to remember names and dates.
AUDIO courtesy of Axios:
Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur’s 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.
Biden WH didn’t release it last year. Listen below.
w/ @MarcACaputo https://t.co/VJr2c9m3bh pic.twitter.com/Xoa0rQMtG9— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
Joe Biden’s lawyer came to the rescue as the prosecutor grilled him about why he kept a classified memo about Afghanistan.
AUDIO:
Though amiable, the interview became somewhat tense when Biden attorney Bob Bauer chastised prosecutor Krickbaum in this exchange over why Biden had kept a memo about Afghanistan.
“Your answer is that you don’t know,” Bauer instructed the president.
Listen here. pic.twitter.com/CoZSD6vi5R— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
At one point during the interview, Joe Biden went on and on about shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
AUDIO:
Throughout his interview, Biden sounded more like a nostalgic, grandfatherly storyteller than a potential defendant who could be accused of hoarding secret papers.
He waxed on about several topics including shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
Here is that exchange. pic.twitter.com/I6QHiomhW8— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
“The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden’s dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details. Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory,” Axios reporter Alex Thompson said.
The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden’s dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
There is also a clock in the background as a metronome. pic.twitter.com/Q782dT1f5n— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
In late 2023, Joe Biden spent two days with Special Counsel Robert Hur about his handling of stolen classified documents.
“The President has been interviewed as part of the investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur. The voluntary interview was conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded Monday. As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation. We would refer other questions to the Justice Department at this time,” an October 2023 statement from Ian Sams read.
Joe Biden STOLE SCIF-designated classified documents and improperly stored them at the Penn Biden Center.
Biden also stored classified documents in his garage next to his Corvette where his son Hunter had access to the sensitive materials.
Robert Hur found that Joe Biden “willfully retained” classified information, however, he decided not to charge him. Hur said there is evidence Biden retained classified notebooks, “knowing he was not allowed to do so.”
The Justice Department defended not bringing charges against Biden because he’s a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden forgot when he was Vice President and also couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.
