Last year to the day, James Bovard wrote this: “The Biden White House is proclaiming a new prerogative for presidents: they may suppress any evidence of their unfitness for office.”
Yesterday, on social media, Mr. Bovard updated the story he covered last year: “The damning audio of President Biden’s disastrous interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur is finally out. Here’s my New York Post oped last year on the BS pretenses the White House used to suppress the tape. Biden was not even sure if Trump was elected president in 2017 or in 2016.”
While Biden’s bumbling, brain-addled senescence was on display before the 2020 election, Democrats wouldn’t admit it until after his disastrous “debate” with Donald Trump last summer.
And, as Bovard indicated, now (finally!) we have the actual audio of the interview that was of some consequence last year. CBS gives some details:
Snippets from a 2023 interview that led Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur to describe former President Joe Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” were obtained and published by Axios Friday, showing Biden’s halting tone of voice and difficulty remembering dates.
CBS News has confirmed the audio matches the transcript of the interview released by the Biden White House in 2024.
In one four-minute clip, Biden was asked by Hur’s team — which was investigating Biden’s handling of classified records — about where he kept his documents shortly after leaving office as vice president. Biden’s response is marked by long pauses, and his voice appears hoarse at times. His speech is especially halting as he describes the period around his son Beau’s death.
In the audio obtained by news outlet Axios, Biden can also be heard struggling to remember the year when Beau died or the year when President Trump was first elected. Members of his staff can be heard correcting him or reminding him of the date.
Joe Walsh, “Recordings of Biden Justice Department interview emerge, highlighting his memory lapses,” CBS News (May 17, 2025).
It is noteworthy that CNN’s Jake Tapper had co-authored a book on the Biden decline cover-up in the Democratic Party. It is also noteworthy — and many commenters online have emphasized it — that Tapper was in on the cover-up. But that won’t be admitted, will it? At least, not by Tapper and other professional cover-up artists.