Saturday, May 17, 2025

the Hur-interview audio: it's finally coming out

It's coming out in bits and pieces, but the audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with then-"President" Joe Biden is finally becoming public. Good. Biden's cognitive decline is on full display in the audio, in a way that's not conveyed by looking merely at the raw transcript. (I had, and still have, the transcript, but I quickly gave up on slogging through it to find the juicy bits. Yeah, call me lazy.) From National Review (quoted at the above link):

Newly released audio from then-President Joe Biden’s lengthy interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur captures Biden’s diminished mental acuity in his failure to recall the year his son Beau passed away, the year his vice presidency ended, the year President Donald Trump was first elected, and why he possessed certain classified documents.

Biden’s long pauses and incoherent ramblings in response to light questioning from Hur are apparent in over four minutes of audio first reported by Axios on Friday night. The partial release fulfills expectations that the Trump administration would finally disclose the long-anticipated interview tape after Biden’s administration obstructed its disclosure at every turn.

Mistakenly, Biden said in the interview that his son Beau died in 2017 and had to be reminded that he passed away in 2015. Biden also said Trump was first elected in 2017 and had to be corrected that Trump won the presidency in 2016.

“OK, yeah. In 2017, Beau had passed and — this is personal — the genesis of the book and the title Promise Me, Dad, was a — I know you’re all close with your sons and daughters, but Beau was like my right arm and Hunt was my left,” Biden said at one point in the interview audio, with lengthy pauses peppered throughout.

Biden also can be heard stumbling over his words and whispering throughout the audio, two aspects of the interview the transcripts fail to fully capture. Biden struggled to explain why he possessed classified documents, and he veered into rambling, storytelling territory about his decision not to run for president in 2016. Hur interviewed Biden over the course of two three-hour-long sessions on October 8 and 9, 2023.

This sort of gaffe-ing happened all the time during Biden's four years in the Oval Office; any moron could see what was going on, how he was being handled, controlled, and propped up. But the leftie mainstream media, carrying water for the Democrats as usual, did its damnedest to make Biden seem coherent, and to blast people who pointed out Biden's obvious mental deficiencies by calling them ageist and abusive. Only now are the media grudgingly admitting Biden's decline, but they're trying to spin this as a sudden revelation of which they'd been unaware for years. Are they idiots? Are they lying? Are they both?


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