After a few years of the Democrats and media insisting that Joe Biden was "sharp as a tack" and that claims otherwise were Right-wing misinformation, the June 2024 presidential debate helped make it obvious that there had been a coverup of epic proportions. Now some audio of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with Biden has made it clear that things might have been even worse than we thought.
Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
Biden WH didn't release it last year. Listen below.
w/ @MarcACaputo https://t.co/VJr2c9m3bh pic.twitter.com/Xoa0rQMtG9
At a certain point in one of the released clips an aide to Biden interjected during a particularly awkward exchange and asked the president if he needed a break. Biden replied no. Clearly Biden's Cabinet should have given him a very long break by invoking the 25th Amendment, but the decision was made to just keep lying about his condition and trusting the media to help keep the charade going.
I'll focus on two stories, one from CBS News and another from NBC News, which are about the newly released Hur audio.
This is from a CBS News report:
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.
NBC put it this way:
Newly released audio of a special counsel interviewing then-President Joe Biden shows memory lapses that White House officials denied at the time, including a president clearly struggling to remember the year his oldest son died. https://t.co/c0MwKbctja
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 17, 2025
The NBC story includes this:
The audio of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur is likely to fuel a growing debate among Democrats and others about whether there was a concerted effort to cover up the president’s diminished mental capacity, as well as whether that contributed to the party’s 2024 defeat at the polls. It also comes as several new books offer insight into what many behind the scenes knew.
The media's now saying there might have been a "concerted effort to cover up" Biden's cognitive state? You don't say! The corporate media really hope nobody remembers what they did.
CBS was all-in on the "cheap fakes" spin to protect Biden and the Dems from anybody who simply pointed out the obvious:
Misleading video clips of President Biden watching a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy went viral last week, prompting the White House to say Biden is victim to a simpler version of "deepfakes." So, what are "cheap fakes"?
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 19, 2024
CBS News Confirmed Executive Editor… pic.twitter.com/VgJwBEVc20
"Cheap fakes" is a term Karine Jean-Pierre handed to the media and they dutifully ran with it without question.
Ditto for NBC:
But conservative media outlets and the Republican National Committee posted videos shot from angles that cut out the parachutists. Some of their posts said incorrectly that Biden “wandered off.” Without the skydivers Biden was addressing included in those videos, viewers could be left with the impression that he was walking absentmindedly.
The misleading videos were an example of so-called cheap fakes, in which low-tech editing or other minor changes to videos, along with incorrect context, can amplify false but convincing messages.
Those outlets also did yeoman's work to help the Biden White House and Democrats call "misinformation" on any claims or videos showing that no, Biden was not "sharp as a tack."
Karine Jean-Pierre did not regret issuing those marching orders to the media because they did exactly what she asked:
Karine Jean-Pierre says she has no regrets falsely labeling our unedited, unfiltered clips highlighting Biden's obvious cognitive decline as "cheap fakes."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 2, 2024
(You can submit your apology in writing, @PressSec) pic.twitter.com/6eYT83j2zK
I can't help but notice a distinct lack of the usual suspects in the media clamoring to have KJP on and ask her about the Hur audio. Or about this for that matter:
Karine Jean-Pierre refused to release the Robert Hur / Biden audio tapes.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 16, 2025
Now we know why. pic.twitter.com/e5If4XfNoA
Now the Dems and media would like to drop it and just move on. Don't let them.
