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Biden-Hur audio fuels scrutiny of White House narrative
RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss the newly released Biden-Hur audio and comments from former administration officials who claim they were unaware of President Biden’s mental decline.
Former President Joe Biden lashed out against special counsel Robert Hur over a report in which he described the longtime lawmaker as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The part of Hur’s report that most angered Biden was the suggestion that the then-president could not remember when his son, Beau, died. However, new audio obtained by Axios sheds light on Biden’s lapses in memory.
In February 2024, Biden and several high-profile Democrats — as well as media personalities — attacked Hur. During a press conference on Hur’s report, Biden said, “There’s some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events. There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that?”
Audio from then-President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur reveals that he, and not the special counsel, brought up Beau Biden’s death. (Getty Images)
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Hur in February 2024, saying his report was “gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.” She also suggested that it was “clearly politically motivated.” Harris recalled Biden’s alleged sharpness at the time, noting that Hur’s interview took place on Oct. 8, 2023 — just one day after Hamas’ attack on Israel. Harris said she was “in almost every meeting” with Biden and that he was “in front of and on top of it all.”
Reps. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., grilled Hur when he testified on Capitol Hill in March 2024. Both lawmakers attempted to get Hur to say that his report “exonerated” Biden — which…
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