White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt teased the potential release of audio recordings of Special Counsel Robert Hur's infamous interview with former President Joe Biden.
Hur spoke with Biden regarding his storing classified documents in his home, garage, and office for decades but declined to pursue legal action because, as he put it, the former President was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Reagan Reese, the Daily Caller's White House Correspondent, asked Leavitt Tuesday if the administration was considering releasing the tapes.
"I don't have an update on that, but I can certainly check," Leavitt replied. "I think the American people would be quite interested to hear that tape, but I'll double-check on the release of it."
Daily Caller White House Correspondent @reaganreese_: "Is the White House considering releasing the audio of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur to the public, which [Biden] had previously blocked?"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 8, 2025
LEAVITT: "I think the American people would be quite interested to… pic.twitter.com/JnBgtIKHry
Hur's report and conclusion were one of the more impressive displays of legal and mental gymnastics to avoid prosecuting a significant public figure since ... James Comey allowed Hillary Clinton to escape similar consequences because she was "extremely careless."
Despite letting him skirt the classified documents issue, Hur couldn't cover up what he witnessed while speaking with Biden.
A transcript revealed that in his five-hour interview with Hur, President Biden frequently confused dates, countries, and the sequence of significant events, such as when his son Beau passed away and Donald Trump was elected.
On several occasions, Biden repeatedly struggled to recall “important” dates and had to be rescued by his legal team.
“Trump gets elected in November of 2017?” Biden asked during the interview, which, of course, was incorrect and off by a year. And you'd think that would be an easy date to remember since November 8th, 2016, was the single most tragic date in the eyes of Democrats until January 6th came along.
In another portion of the interview, Biden stated that his son Beau was “deployed or is dying” in 2017 or 2018. In reality, Beau Biden tragically passed due to complications from brain cancer in 2015.
Not only did Joe Biden forget the year his son died, he also said during his interview with Robert Hur that Beau was alive in 2017 or 2018 when he was "at Penn."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 12, 2024
Beau died in 2015 and Joe never taught a class at Penn.
He also forgot the year Trump was elected president. pic.twitter.com/8An3RM0ak3
Biden, whose people were actively hiding his obvious mental struggles and dismissing video and audio evidence to the contrary as "cheap fakes," asserted executive privilege in trying to keep the Hur interview hidden from public consumption.
Or whoever was controlling his autopen did.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes,” White House Counsel Ed Siskel said in a letter to House Republicans demanding access.
Around the time of the release of the Special Counsel report, Biden twice claimed to have spoken with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017 - about the January 6th riot at the Capitol in 2021 - and insisted that he had spoken with former French President François Mitterrand who died in 1996.
Nobody had to chop up or distort that evidence.
Release of the Hur audio at this point might be overkill. Everyone knew Biden was cognitively challenged for years, and once that presidential debate took place, the media, who had dutifully covered it up, could no longer do so.
In fact, some of the more enterprising among them, like Jake Tapper, are now trying to make money off the scandal they helped hide from the American public.
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