Joe Biden could not remember that he served in the White House
While Biden, 82, is now fighting his own cancer and questions about his physical health, he is also bombed with accusations about his mental capacities in the White House.
The Bombshell New Book, Original sin: the decline of President Biden, the cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again, Journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson tell an interview from 2023 that Biden gave special counselor Robert Hur with the Ministry of Justice, who at the time investigated the handling of the President of Classified Records.
After their speech, Hur concluded that Biden was an “older man with a bad memory” – and the new biography is trying to support that.
In a part of the book, the authors reveal Biden “important limitations” during the interview.
“The recorded conversations of Biden from that time were described as” often painfully slow, with Mr Biden struggling to remember events and sometimes tensioning to read and pass on his own notebook entries, “the journalists write.
“Flash Forward to the autumn of 2023, when Biden had his interviews with the special counselor’s office. In summary, Hur concluded:” Biden’s memory was worse. ”
“Biden seemed to have difficulty understanding that his vice -presidency lasted from January 2009 to January 2017. Once, in an attempt to understand a time in 2013, he asked:” Well, if it was 2013 -when did I stop with vice president? “
“2017”, a Witte Huis lawyer reminded him. ” So I was vice president, “he said.” So it must have come from vice -president. That is all I can imagine. “”
Elsewhere during the interviews, Biden could not be remembered in particular When his son Beau diedA fact that a Witte House lawyer had to remember him.
The former president is heard in the audio and says: “What happened, however … which month Beau died?”
He added: “Oh God, May 30”, before he was asked for the year confirmed by his lawyer as 2015.
Biden can also be heard and asks: “am I looking forward to you?” points to a clear struggle to articulate his thoughts coherent.
After the Hur report came out for the first time, Richard Sauber, special counsel from the president, and Bob Bauer, the personal counsel of Biden, in some aspects – shot back – including attacks on the president’s memory.
“We do not believe that the treatment of the report of the memory of President Biden is accurate or appropriate,” wrote Sauber and Bauer. “The report uses a very prejudice language to describe an everyday event in witnesses: a lack of recall from years old events.”
A spokesperson for the BIDen government further characterized Hur’s assessment as a “politically motivated” attack.
Officials have pushed back against the story that the then president was unsuitable for the office, whereby his unique lifelong challenges with a speech movement emphasize, should not be merged with cognitive decline.
