A 4-minute audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 interview with Joe Biden was released on Friday evening.
In late 2023, Joe Biden spent two days with Special Counsel Robert Hur about his handling of stolen classified documents.
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.”
The portion of the audio released showed Biden repeatedly struggling to remember names and dates.
Biden couldn’t remember when Trump got elected, and he didn’t know the year his son Beau died.
Joe Biden’s lawyers acted as his caretakers and came to the rescue numerous times as the prosecutor grilled him.
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.
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Early Saturday morning, Axios released the full audio of day one of the Biden-Hur interview on stolen classified documents.
Biden’s labored breathing, long silences as he struggled to recall details, caused alarm.
Here is the full audio of day one of Hur’s interview:
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.
Special Counsel Robert Hur could not determine who had access to Joe Biden’s stolen classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center because security deleted all the visitor logs from 2017-2021.
According to Hur, Joe Biden kept more than 600 pages of classified documents in unlocked drawers/closets at the Penn Biden Center and stored some of them in dilapidated boxes in his Delaware garage and other unsecured locations.
The FBI identified numerous folders, including many labeled “EYES ONLY VPOTUS” which contained highly classified material related to intelligence sources and methods.
However, Biden was still not charged and none of his aides, handlers or gatekeepers were charged with obstruction or conspiracy (unlike Trump’s aides).
Some of the most highly sensitive documents were stored at Penn Biden Center in an unlocked office and closet.
There was virtually no real security at the Penn Biden Center and in 2019 visitors no longer needed a key fob or security escort to access the floor where all of the stolen classified documents were stored, according to Hur’s report reviewed by this reporter.
