Yesterday, far-left Axios broke an exclusive story headlined, “Exclusive: Biden-Hur special counsel audio exposes memory lapses.”
The evidence that the Democrats defied Congressional subpoenas to conceal is now, suddenly and unexpectedly, out in the open. Axios obtained the audio of Biden’s October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur. The news platform reported that, amid long, uncomfortable pauses —punctuated by a dramatic grandfather clock ticking just like audible ellipses— Joe Biden struggled in whispery tones to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had classified documents he shouldn’t have had.
In 2023, as Democrat hysteria over President Trump’s Classified Documents case reached suborbital heights, flying even higher than Katy Perry in a movie-set rocket, news of Joe Biden’s own documents scandal broke. Unlike President Trump, Biden had kept classified documents lying around in at least six addresses, and had held back vastly more illegally-kept papers than Trump. Biden had perhaps thousands of banker’s boxes, compared to Trump’s half-dozen.
Ultimately, Biden’s documents mega-gaffe would drain all the energy from the Trump case, leaving Democrats lamely trying to explain how the two cases were completely different. It was something to do with Biden “cooperating,” which of course he would, since he was trying to destroy Trump at the time using the exact same alleged crime.
“Cooperation” was always an incredibly dumb distinction, not least because it isn’t a legal distinction. Under the laws relating to classified documents, after-the-fact cooperation makes no difference. (Assuming the law is applied consistently. But I digress.) Anyway, haplessly trying to bolster Biden’s cooperation argument, they made the second-worst decision in political history. (The first being the decision for Biden to debate Trump.)
To create the appearance of fairness, AG Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as a special counsel to “investigate” Biden, which you would be forgiven for thinking was only a euphemism for “whitewash.” And then they made their horrible mistake. Specifically trying to create parity with Trump, who was interviewed by Special Counsel Jack Smith, Biden also sat for a “voluntary interview” with Special Counsel Hur.
Biden’s “voluntary interview” resembled a deposition, except Biden wasn’t sworn under oath. And, if you listen to the whole thing —the aural equivalent of an OG root canal— you’ll hear Biden’s aides prompting him with answers whenever he struggled to coherently reply, and his lawyers covering for his lapses, who Axios called “caretakers of his memory.” Once, for example, Biden attorney Bob Bauer can be heard instructing Biden, “Your answer is that you don’t know.”
That type of “call a friend” stuff is off limits in real depositions.
Anyway, Hur’s February 2024 report predictably concluded that, unlike Trump, Biden should not face criminal charges. But Hur didn’t rely on a cooperation defense—how could he? Nothing in the relevant statutes immunizes people who “cooperate” after they get caught. Instead, Hur said prosecuting Biden would be no use, catastrophically describing the sitting president as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, which ignited furious political firestorms and accusations of partisan motives.
It was ageism! Partisanship! Lies and slurs! Biden is sharp as a tack! Democrats decried Hur’s entire report as a gratuitous smear, while critics claimed it raised concerns about his fitness for office. The story transitioned into a Great Coverup.
The White House stalwartly refused to release the audio, citing it as protected under “law enforcement materials,” a vague, made-up designation lacking the force of privilege but which flummoxed congressional requests. As the clamor for the audio reached a crescendo, the White House released selected parts of the written transcript, trying to satisfy transparency demands without exposing Biden’s awful performance— his halting delivery, verbal meandering, brain freezes, and memory lapses that words on a printed page cannot capture.
As long as he remained in office, Merrick Garland defied House subpoenas for the original audio. But Grandma Garland waddled off the DOJ’s stage in December. And yesterday, somehow, Axios got hold of the full (lightly redacted) audio.
To be fair, the interview doesn’t prove Biden was completely incoherent. He was mostly engaged, and mostly understood the questions. His answers were a different story. But the first thing we learned is how little Biden actually testified. At the time, the lying media claimed Biden “volunteered” two days of testimony. What they didn’t tell us was that it was only five hours total, divided over two days.
That’s only about a half day of deposition time. Not two days of questioning. More media misinformation.
Axios has published several short clips. In one clip (4:24), Robert Hur asks Biden a simple question about where he stored classified documents. Biden then wandered off into the cognitive daisies, with a rambling, incoherent, four-minute non-answer that touched on wide-ranging topics like his son Beau’s death (Biden couldn’t recall in what year it happened), a book he wrote, comments on Obama’s choice of Hillary over him, all punctuated by several aides correcting him on the date of the 2016 election (Biden said 2017).
Here is the entire five-hour interview (5:10:00). If you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, just read the Axios article for the lowlights.
Tellingly, Axios never said how it got the audio. Obviously, someone in the Administration fed it to them, ensuring it would be presented to Axios’ liberal readers. Bookmark that. We’ll return to it.
To Democrats’ dismay, the story is no longer about Biden. After all, Biden’s creeping dementia isn’t news, since the vegetative former president sealed the deal with his disastrous debate. The story is now about the coverup.
The Trump Team has unprecedented operational discipline. The audio release appears to have caught corporate media completely off guard. The New York Times ran a panicked story co-authored by Alex Thompson, one of the authors of the forthcoming book Original Sin. The Times’ headline said, “Audio Clip of Biden Special Counsel Interview Is Released, Showing Verbal Stumbles.” But positioned right over that story was a close companion, headlined “Democrats Who Championed Biden’s Re-election Bid Now Seek Atonement.”
The second story addressed the coverup. “As the Democratic Party faces record low approval ratings,” the Times reported, “many party strategists and officials believe it must rebuild trust in its brand beginning with confronting how the party handled the 2024 race.”
In other words, the Times is desperately trying to recapture a narrative it sees slipping into the ocean depths. Evidently, the Times has concluded this requires a limited hangout, and some kind of explanation for why Democrats covered up Biden’s obvious lack of ability to do the most important job on the planet.
Make no mistake— they get it. Democrats traded electability for incompetence. “The power of incumbency, Democratic officials argued, outweighed well-documented concerns from their voters about his fitness for the job,” reporters explained.
A pile-on is mounting. The Times’ article quoted Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who said, “Democrats must now openly admit that the former president was unfit for a second term and should not have run.” The story next quoted former Representative Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.), who counseled Democrats hoping for a 2028 run to “cleanse yourself of any culpability you may have had when you stayed silent while so much was at stake.”
Sadly, when Cunningham referred to “so much at stake,” he probably meant losing the election rather than avoiding World War III. But still.
The Times’ emerging “confession tour” suggestion is fraught with risk. What should Democrats say? Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer leaned into ignorance. “I was busy working,” she told CNN. “I didn’t see the president frequently,” she lamely offered as an excuse.
Whitmer was a co-chair of Biden’s campaign.
If, on the other hand, they claim they were misled, it just raises more questions. “We were misled” is a classic passive-voice dodge. Who, precisely, misled them? If they say “White House aides,” that spurs inquiry into what else those aides might have been doing that only the brain-damaged chief executive should legally have done.
And if they blame “aides,” then the next natural question is: why did they ignore their own senses? It’s not like nobody was pointing out Biden’s many missteps and brain resets. It was practically unavoidable. Clips flooded social media, dismissed as “cheap fakes.” Trump had even nicknamed the Cabbage in Chief as “Sleepy Joe Biden.”
The top Democrats all had access to the man himself. They called him. They met with him. So, what gives?
We can expect Democrats, already squirming in public, to further shrink like salted snails. The Biden coverup problem is not going anywhere— not anytime soon, at least. It is, in fact, more like Tapper and Thompson’s Original Sin, a transgression that will stain the party’s brand until three generations of voters pass away.
Let us not overlook the evidence of a larger Trumpian strategy. The new Administration could have released the audio on day one (or maybe day two, after adding the bleepy redactions). But they waited till now. BlueSky nitwits smell a rat; the far-left commenters offered dozens of suggestions about what news the Trump team is really trying to bury. They are also desperately searching for crypto-Republicans on Axios’ editorial staff.
But it is hard to ignore the temporal confluence with Tapper’s new book, which releases in three days. The co-authors —CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Times columnist Alex Thompson— are watching their royalties swell like a rogue wave streaming over the seawall. The mysterious release of the Biden audio to liberal outlet Axios —unannounced by the Administration— seems more designed to focus attention on Original Sin and send corporate media running to Democrats for soundbites.
I like to think that Trump’s post this morning is somehow related:
President Trump and his team appear to have no intention of losing Congress in next year’s midterms. And after seeing Trump’s scorched-earth tariff plan, imagine what similar kind of comprehensive strategy they might be deploying to completely destroy the Democrat brand. That is what I believe is happening.
The Democrats are getting further and further behind.
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that the next 18 months sees a steady series of increasingly damning disclosures about Biden’s lack of a real presidency plus the mounting evidence of 2020’s stolen election?
Remember, just like they gained access to the Biden Audio, the Trump Team now has access to all that information, too. They have receipts.
Who had their finger on the nuclear button during the Biden presidency?
Autopen.
Dr, Jill isnt likely, but they sure were developing a policy to pop off a few smaller nukes. Now its India and Pakistan.
With China Soros and the UN/Globalists pulling his strings so he would dance for them
It looks like the method the leftist media is choosing to “rebuild trust” is to lie harder about Trump.
You know, the optimal time for pointing out the obvious fact that Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden was mentally incapacitated and fully under the control of others would have been BEFORE the election, not after the election loss when there is nothing to lose. Instead, these corrupt liars tried to hide the truth (from whom, exactly?) until this bag of dust was re-elected and the puppeteering could continue.
What has been exposed is that there is not a single credible, trustworthy Democrat. Not one, anywhere. For there was not a single one that spoke up and declared that Obama’s puppet could never serve the first term, much less a second. They all participated in the farce. Even if they didn’t openly deny the truth, they kept silent, hoping the obvious, blatant truth would do unnoticed.
No Democrats are worthy of trust.