Politics
JUST IN: Trump To Release Audio Of Biden’s Bombshell Interview With Robert Hur
On Oct. 8, 2023, former President Joe Biden sat for his first interview with special counsel Robert Hur to explain how documents containing classified national secrets came to be piled haphazardly on shelves in his home garage, just next to his beloved ’67 Corvette.
Their discussion formed the basis of transcripts released the following March indicating that Biden had little to no idea how they got there and appeared dazed and confused at times, so much that Hur declined to bring charges against him while concluding that a jury would be sympathetic to Biden, a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
His descriptor of Biden as a frail and forgetful 81-year-old may well have been the first nail in the coffin that ultimately buried Biden’s reelection campaign. Now, long after the Democrat’s administration refused to release the tapes, they may finally see the light of day.
Trump administration officials have signaled they are preparing to release the unredacted recording of Hur’s interview with Biden, one which upended the narrative that he had the mental stamina to serve another four years in the world’s most demanding job.
Politico reports that details of the pending release are still in flux, though people in Biden’s camp say they are girding for the possible fallout.
The decision of whether to release the tapes is also operating under a May 20 deadline set by a Freedom of Information Act request filed by conservative legal groups who have denounced former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to withhold the tapes. The Justice Department has been ordered by a judge to declare whether it still stands by that decision.
Biden’s administration argued at the time that releasing the tapes would have a chilling effect on witnesses participating in other high-profile federal investigations.
Republicans have long sought access to the audio of Hur’s interview, which they say perfectly elucidates the mental decline Biden suffered from and which members of his administration and conspirators in the mainstream media hid from the public until it was unavoidable.
“The Hur audio will confirm what is one of the biggest cover ups in American history,” Mike Davis, an occasional advisor to President Trump, told the outlet.
U.S. House Republicans don’t appear to be part of the latest push for the recording’s release. A previous request by the House Judiciary Committee has lingered without action since Trump took office.
Democrats at the time denounced the GOP’s fight to hear the tapes as proof that they were simply seeking to spin the audio into attack ads the following year. House Republicans passed contempt charges against Garland but ultimately declined to seek impeachment.
