Newly released audio of former President Joe Biden shows him struggling to remember names and dates and losing his train of thought during 2016 and 2017 interviews. But the most damning part about the audio tapes is that the propagandists masquerading as journalists who spent four years concealing his decline are still employed.
The Oversight Project, a government watchdog group, fought for more than two years to get the tapes released. The tapes and transcripts cover Biden’s conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, between 2016 and 2017. These tapes were used by Special Counsel Robert Hur during his investigation into whether Biden mishandled classified information.
Ultimately Hur found “Biden’s memory was significantly limited” during both the interviews with Zwonitzer and Hur himself. Hur also concluded that “Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”
The newly released tapes show Biden struggling to recall the names of two of his former economic advisers in April of 2017: “including the two guys who I think were with me, were — oh, God. The guy at Princeton now. Economist. Good guy, was our, our chief economic advisor. Not Kaufman. I’ll think of his name.” Biden later said: “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.”
In another instance Biden could not recall the date of a memorial service for a fallen service member: “I think I went to that memorial service in Wilmington. It says [REDACTED] December the 4th, but I don’t — I know what this means. Memorial service — [REDACTED] gets names really f–ed up,” Biden said.
“So it says memorial service for [REDACTED]. I don’t think her name was [REDACTED]. Or I forget [REDACTED].”
In another instance Biden couldn’t recall what he was going to say.
“What was I going to ask you?” Biden said. “Oh, gosh. I, I can’t think of what it is.”
These recordings don’t just add additional proof of Biden’s cognitive decline; they also prove that the problem was noticeable before Biden reentered the White House in 2021. Biden only continued to decline, and Americans watched it unfold. Yet Democrats and legacy media assured Americans repeatedly that Biden’s cognitive decline, which was on full display during the 2024 debate, was a sudden development rather than the culmination of years of warning signs.
The Biden administration understood how politically damaging his decline was, with Hur having testified that the White House urged him to alter the “references to the president’s poor memory” in his report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur also testified that Zwonitzer “attempted to destroy evidence following Hur’s appointment to investigate the mishandling of classified information,” as The Federalist reported.
But White House officials could not have kept up the deception on their own. They needed an accomplice willing to tell Americans not to believe what they could hear and see. That accomplice? The propaganda press.
Days before the infamous debate, The New York Times had a report that read: “How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts.” The Times’ editorial page had an essay entitled “I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.”
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