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Hur Transcript Reveals Biden Made Bizarre ‘Car Noises’ During Classified Documents Interview
The transcript from President Joe Biden’s discussion with Special Counsel Robert Hur revealed the president often deviated from the main subject, at times even imitating “car noises.” During Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Special Counsel Hur testified on his report probing Biden’s improper retention of classified records.
In the initial interview transcript, provided to news outlets for the first time ahead of today’s hearing, a prosecutor inquired about Biden’s cherished Corvette in an effort to establish the timeline for the relocation of classified documents to accommodate the car in his home garage.
Attorney Marc Krickbuam inquired of Biden, “Do you remember whether it was when the Corvette was coming back after the Jay Leno show? So, in other words, it goes out for Jay Leno, eventually it comes back.”
Biden’s reply was, “Oh no, it was, it was in and out for a bunch of reasons,” before he began to digress.
“Because it drove me crazy; I wanted to drive it,” Biden went on to say. Krickbaum understood, responding with, “Got it. That makes sense. A beautiful car.” The transcript then detailed Biden’s shift to sharing anecdotes about his car, complete with imitating car noises.
“And the worst part was, they said I couldn’t drive it outside the driveway. It’s a long driveway. So I’d get to the bottom of the driveway, tack it up to about four grand (indiscernible) (makes car sound) (indiscernible) (laughter),” Biden was captured saying.
Breitbart reported:
Biden then started talking about cars in general, before Hur interrupted with, “Sir, I’d love — I would love to hear much more about this, but I do have a few more questions to get through.”
Biden ignored him, and continued talking about cars, to which Hur finally said, “All right. So let’s — let’s launch into the next subject which relates to the Penn Biden Center.”
Another portion of the transcript shows Hur asking Biden about the time he lived at the Naval Observatory as vice president that ended up with Biden discussing a man losing part of his testicles and penis.
Hur asid, “So now let’s talk about the Naval Observatory. So you’ve been living there for eight years. So at the end of your vice presidency, what kinds of papers or documents or files were at the Naval Observatory as you were preparing to leave and move out?”
Biden then veered into an elaborate narrative, recounting the period he awaited the results of his bar examination while working for a law firm. This firm was representing a young man involved in a tragic accident. “And this poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside. They were made to shut the plant down once every — whatever, about eight months or six months or a year, whatever it is.”
“And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he — a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old,” Biden elaborated.
As Biden transitioned to discussing his entry into politics, Special Counsel Hur intervened, attempting to refocus the conversation, “So, sir, the material that you just — that you remember having, again, trying to steer us back to the end of your vice presidency and focusing on your move out of the Naval Observatory.”
When prompted with the question, “Did you bring classified material with you from the West Wing or the Naval Observatory to the lake house?” Biden started to answer but quickly shifted into a thorough narrative about his office and its photographs, eventually leading into a reminiscence about a visit to Mongolia.
“You know, I went to Mongolia and, and great pictures. I, unfortunately, embarrassed the hell out of the leader of Mongolia.”
He then detailed an experience in Mongolia, “So we’re out in the middle of nowhere and they’re looking up on the hill and we see this tiny line. You know, it’s a 20-mile horse race with all these kids under the age of 16 on bareback racing to come down. And you know, there are sumo wrestlers doin’ everything they do.”
Biden went on to share an anecdote about being given a bow and arrow and managing to hit a target on a hay bale. Following this story, one of the attorneys asked for a break.