President Donald Trump has already given us thousands of files on the JFK assassination, and now he’s pushing for the Epstein files to see the light of day. But there’s something else we need from him — the audio from special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Joe Biden.
Hur declined last February to pursue charges against then-President Biden for retaining top-secret documents. Hur described Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and said that “based on our direct interactions with and observations of [Biden], he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.”
“It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” the report continued.
Hur also found Biden’s memory “appeared to have significant limitations” and said Biden was unable to remember the start and end date of his vice presidency. Biden could not recall specific dates in relation to his son’s death “even within several years” and had a “hazy” recollection “when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
The report undercut claims from the left that Biden was “sharp as ever” and possessed “strong mental acuity.” And surely if (as David Harsanyi wrote in these pages), “all of this is true … why [was] the president trying to suppress audio of the interview?”
Of course it was because none of the Democrats’ carefully crafted illusion of a clear-headed commander in chief was true. In fact, Biden only further reinforced concerns about his mental state when he gave a speech about the report’s findings, accusing Hur of raising the topic of his son’s death.
“How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden asked — but it was Biden who brought up the topic, according to a transcript of the interview.
Republicans issued subpoenas for a copy of the audio tapes after the report came out, with concerns raised as to whether the transcript was edited and does not match the audio. Such a concern was only bolstered when Hur later testified before the House Judiciary Committee in March of 2024 that the White House asked he make “certain edits” to the report.
Hellbound and Down 