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Portions of the Tapes Between Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur Have Been Released. They’re Brutal.
Townhall ^ | May 16, 2025 | Matt Vespa |

Posted on 05/17/2025 7:16:47 AM PDT by george76

The Democrats’ hell week over this matter will continue. President Trump gave Attorney General Pam Bondi the go-ahead to release the audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Joe Biden, which captured the former president’s shoddy memory. The signs of mental decline were pervasive, but while we were called conspiracy theorists for saying so, the Democrat-media complex continued to press on with their lies about the president’s health. Axios obtained a portion of these tapes; one of the marquee moments of the Hur report was when he noted that Joe Biden had forgotten when Beau died.

It led to a press conference where the president vociferously pushed back on the report, even directing his anger at Hur for suggesting he’d forgotten when his son had passed. The problem: Biden lied constantly to the president, and this is no exception. We have proof that the then-president struggled to remember when Beau died of brain cancer. The Biden White House refused to release the tapes. The Biden Justice Department tried to deep-six it. It’s now for all to see and hear (via Axios):

Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled 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, according to audio Axios obtained of his October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.

Why it matters: The newly released recordings of Biden having trouble recalling such details — while occasionally slurring words and muttering — shed light on why his White House refused to release the recordings last year, as questions mounted about his mental acuity.

The audio also appears to validate Hur's assertion that jurors in a trial likely would have viewed Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

Partly based on that determination, Hur decided not to prosecute Biden for improper possession of classified documents, angering Republicans because Trump was facing charges in his own classified document scandal then.

Democrats and Biden's White House blasted Hur for his observations about Biden. They repeatedly insisted he was "sharp" and that Hur was politically motivated. But the audio from the six hours of interviews indicates he and co-counsel Marc Krickbaum were respectful and friendly.

The big picture: The audio surfaces as Democrats and the national media are grappling with the legacy of Biden's White House and campaign hiding his decline as he ran for another four-year term at age 81.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexthompson; biden; coverup; demented; fjb; hur; incoherent; jaketapper; originalsin; pages; roberthur
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1 posted on 05/17/2025 7:16:47 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76
No business being President at that point.

My God...what were they thinking. And who was operating the pen. That's called senile, dementia...very sick....

2 posted on 05/17/2025 7:18:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Now, we move forward...... Most of us knew what we were seeing.


3 posted on 05/17/2025 7:20:35 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: george76

Biden sounds like the smartest guy in the room.


4 posted on 05/17/2025 7:21:06 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Sacajaweau

His handlers knew from day 1 and so did everyone else. Lie 2.0 is that “he declined over past couple of years.”


5 posted on 05/17/2025 7:21:47 AM PDT by sopo
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To: george76

He couldn’t maintain a train of thought for even two sentences. That’s why he rambles all over the place and never actually answers a question. He was clearly mentally incompetent.


6 posted on 05/17/2025 7:25:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: george76

All this begs the question, “Who was actually acting as President, and how much of was done in his name is actually legal and binding.” Biden was demonstrably incompetent, and should have been removed.


7 posted on 05/17/2025 7:28:40 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: sopo

Of course, Biden’s handlers knew before Day 1, nearly every American Family has experienced someone inside their family who has undergone what Biden is going thru, losing their mind to dementia or Alzheimer’s and the public knew immediately that Biden was not well.

My understanding is the audio that was released in only a small snippet of Biden’s total interview, and it was brutal, it’s hard to imagine what the rest of the audio is like, given his mental state.


8 posted on 05/17/2025 7:30:19 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: george76

Biden was just a vegetable fronting for his unelected staff making decisions and even signing his name electronically. Jill and Hunter knew more about the American Gov’t than Joe, They all should be locked up.


9 posted on 05/17/2025 7:31:00 AM PDT by chopperk (airhiger)
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To: Rlsau1

He was “President Lepetomane”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Bp8SqYrnE


10 posted on 05/17/2025 7:32:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: george76

There is something going on here and it is more than showing how decrepit Bidet was. IMO this was released now by dems to get Bidet off the camera. Schumer as much as said that last week when asked, by a CNN reportorette no less, what is your concern about the Biden mental issues. His response was, we are looking forward. She asked again and got the same answer. She then said so you are not going to answer. He said it is my answer. Releasing these excerpts is a message to Bidet, shut up or we keep them coming.


11 posted on 05/17/2025 7:33:39 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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To: george76

How is this any different than Obama?


12 posted on 05/17/2025 7:33:51 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76

Hur is a disgrace.

He should have called out Biden’s dementia at the time b/c no one in Biden’s state should be running the country.

Is Hur OK with a “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” as his doctor or operating on him or any of his loved ones?


13 posted on 05/17/2025 7:36:58 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Demonrat: We are sorry we lied about Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, stealing the 2020 election, opening the borders, giving out money and benefits to illegal immigrants so they will vote for us in the future, causing riots, mayhem and destruction labeled as peaceful protests, incarcerating political prisoners and using lawfare against our political enemies, pushing wokeness on our military, making it weak and letting Russia start a war, allowing the normalcy of mental dysphoria to subvert our children and degrade womanhood, and establish a grift system for all our friends and supporters to get rich off the American taxpayer. We won’t ever do it again. Get out there and vote for us!


14 posted on 05/17/2025 7:48:08 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: Sacajaweau; All
“...And who was operating the pen...”

By anyone's definition THAT is treason.

I mean, tampering with documents (any documents in ANY way) is criminal.

Again...if we know the crime, we know it was a pattern (NOT a one-off), we know the occasions this was done, and we know the players...WHY is no one named and under investigation and being charged???????????

Like any other crime, get one guy and the dominoes will begin to fall. There's no need to get everyone one up front!!!!!!!

15 posted on 05/17/2025 7:49:50 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Bon of Babble

Hur is a disgrace

Back 60 years when I was young and uninformed, I believed this was an excellent system we had. Now I am of the opinion, it is no better than others. I have heard the saying the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Unfortunately it has become that. For example, the electorate puts forth two presidents. One is demented yet no one calls out some of the most ridicules laws he enacts and speaks about. No injunctions. The other’s every move is questioned, sued, injunctioned and he is impeached. Yet both are presidents.

Sum ting wong here.


16 posted on 05/17/2025 7:53:32 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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To: srmanuel

How is it we still don’t know who his handlers and was running the country those 4 years? Was it Jill Biden? Obama? Valerie Jarrett? Susan Rice?


17 posted on 05/17/2025 8:02:27 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Sacajaweau

And who was operating the pen.


Who was operating everything? When will those names come out?


18 posted on 05/17/2025 8:08:54 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Blue Highway

I suspect it was all of the above, probably all taking direction from Obama considering most of them worked in his administration as well


19 posted on 05/17/2025 8:10:22 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Blue Highway

Even if we found out who was treasonously running the White House, nothing will ever be done about it. Nothing ever is when it comes to Democrat criminals. We will get some taxpayer funded kabuki theater hearings and that will be it.


20 posted on 05/17/2025 8:12:44 AM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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