The White House has been trying to keep Biden’s flagging mental health under wraps. But they can’t hide it any longer.
Because this unsealed Biden transcript proves just how far gone the president truly is.
During his October interview with special counsel Robert Hur, President Biden mistook important dates, forgetting when his son Beau died of brain illness and when Donald Trump was elected president, according to a transcript of the conversation.
During a discussion of why he kept confidential materials after leaving the vice presidency in 2017, Biden gave a rambling response in which he stated that Beau, who died in 2015, was “deployed or is dying” when he left office in 2017.
“I don’t know. This is, what, 2017, 2018, that area?” Biden, who turned 81 in November, queried during the first of two days of questioning by Hur on Oct. 8.
“Remember, in this timeframe, my son is — either been deployed or is dying, and, and so it was — and by the way, there were still a lot of people at the time when I got out of the Senate that were encouraging me to run in this period, except the President,” Biden said, referring to President Barack Obama.
“I’m not — and not a mean thing to say. He just thought that she [Hillary Clinton] had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did.”
Biden went on to inquire, “What month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30 —”
At that time, White House counsel Rachel Cotton and an unnamed man reminded Biden of his son’s death in 2015.
“Was it 2015 he had died?” Biden replied, according to the transcript.
“It was May 2015,” he was told.
“It was 2015,” Biden reiterated.
The sequence contradicted Biden’s heated accusation that Hur had inappropriately brought up his son’s death during the interview.
“There’s even some reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” the president said Feb. 8. “How the h*ll dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their d*mned business.”
In reality, the transcript shows that Biden brought up Beau’s death without prompting from the special counsel.
Moments after, Biden brought up Trump’s ascension to the presidency, asking if he was elected in “November of 2017” rather than the prior year.
During one of the interview days, the president twice forgot what a fax machine was and had to be reminded by his staff.
Biden was asked by Hur on the afternoon of October 8, 2023, if he ever transported classified documents to his lake residence in Wilmington, Del. Biden said, “Occasionally, because I did a lot of business from there.”
“I have a library, and the library has a — two filing cabinets, and it has built into the walls — when I built that home, built into the walls, a space for a copy machine, for — what do you call it, when they send these —,” the president said.
“Fax machine,” White House Counsel Ed Siskel cut in.
“Fax machine,” Biden echoed.
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