The audio of ex-president Joe Biden’s bombshell interview in which he struggles to recall his son Beaut’s death during a 2023 probe has been leaked.
A special counsel report by Robert Hur at the time declared Biden but declined to charge him with a crime.
The investigation said the ex-president wassuch asthe dates he served as VP, and the year his sondied.
Explaining the lack of charges at the time, Mr Hur said: “At trial,would likely present himself to a jury as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”;;
While the transcripts of the interview with Hur became public last year, now the first audio recording of the bombshell interview has surfaced.
The ex-president sat and spoke with Hur for five hours over two days in the fall of 2023 as part of the special counsel’s probe.
In one clip published by Axios, Biden was asked where he kept papers on matters he was “actively working”;; on after he left office as vice president to Barack Obama in 2017.
He takes a long pause before saying: “I don’t know”;;.
And at another point, Biden is even heard asking: “Am I making any sense to you?”;;
The Democrat also struggled to remember when his eldest son Beau died, and looked for confirmation from those sat in on the interview.
Biden asked: “What month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30th.”;;
Two people in the room then finish his sentence, confirming “2015”;;.
Biden then questioned: “Was it 2015 he had died?”;;
The ex-president then proceeds to talk about unrelated things that occurred during that time period, like those around him encouraging him to run for president in 2016.
Biden is heard saying: “Remember, in this time frame, my son is... uh... would’ve been deployed or is dying and so... it was... and by the way there were still a lot of people at the time, when I got out of the Senate, that were encouraging me to run in this period – except the president.”;;
In another bombshell clip from Axios, upon being asked whether he knew he’d kept a memo related to Afghanistan, Biden first responded: “I don’t know that I knew.”;;
But when pressed more, he said: “I guess I wanted to hang onto it just for posterity’s sake.”;;
Straight after, one person from Biden’s team interjected and tried to clarify the ex-president’s answer.
They said: “I just really would like to avoid for the purpose of a clean record, getting into speculative areas.
“His recollection, as I understand it, is he does not recall specifically intending to keep this memo after he left the vice presidency.”;;
Despite Hur declining to bring charges against Biden, in a final report he said how keeping the documents on foreign policy still presented “serious risks to national security”;;.
Biden and his team slammed Hur’s characterization of the former president as inaccurate and unfair.
The ex-president defended himself at the time, insisting: “My memory is fine.”;;
A bombshell new book alleges the White House covered up Biden’s condition, which at one point last year was said to be so severe that aides even discussed putting him into a wheelchair.
In the book called Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, it’s claimed that Biden was even or remember the names of key aides.
Trump halts Biden’s access to classified information
In February, Trump told Joe Biden “YOU’RE FIRED”;; after as revenge for the ex-president doing the same to him four years prior.
Trump slammed theon his Truth Social platform, saying there was “no need”;; for him to “continue receiving access to classified information”;;.
The Republican already revoked the security clearance of over four dozen former intelligence officials whom he accused ofwhich he branded the “greatest fraud in US history”;;,
He posted on Friday evening that the Democrat “set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.”;;
Biden barred Trump fromthat are usually given to former presidents, justifying his actions by claiming Trump’s behavior before the Capital attack was concerning.
The precedent set by the Democrat means Trump can too stop his predecessor’s access to daily intelligence briefings.
But Trump also says he wants to revoke Biden’s security clearance.
The Republican added that he “could not be trusted with sensitive information,”;; pointing to a justice department inquiry into Biden’s storage of classified files from his time as Barack Obama’s vice-president.
