Robert Hur Vindicated On Biden Mental Decline After Audio Clips Released
“100% exoneration of Hur. Every person around Biden KNEW Hur was correct and they attacked & impugned his integrity anyway, entirely due to politics.”
The findings of Special Counsel Robert Hur in February 2024 regarding then-President Joe Biden’s memory issues marked the official beginning of the unraveling of the narrative crafted by Biden’s apologists on the issue of his mental acuity.
Hur’s report, which was based on interviews done to see if there was any “there” there to the allegations of Biden improperly retaining and carelessly storing classified documents, sparked a firestorm on the left and in the media, whose outrage centered primarily on the following line from the detailed document:
We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
That assessment, made in one of the most consequential presidential election years in American history, kicked off a vicious smear campaign against Hur, who was accused of being a partisan plant who supposedly was angling for a job in a potential Donald Trump administration despite the fact that Hur was appointed by Biden DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the investigation.
The smears started right at the top, with Biden himself holding a press conference where he chewed Hur out for the questions asked about his deceased son, Beau Biden (even though Hur wasn’t the one who brought up his son – Biden was), apparently embarrassed over the revelation by Hur that Biden couldn’t recall the year Beau Biden passed away:
WATCH: A week ago, Joe Biden blasted Special Counsel Robert Hur: "There is even reference that I don't remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.
Joe Biden lied.… pic.twitter.com/K37dNqlh1e
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 14, 2024
Leaning on her prosecutorial experience, Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed that “the comments that were made by that prosecutor [were] gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
“…we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw,” Harris also stated, while characterizing the report as “clearly politically motivated, gratuitous.”
The comments made in the Hur report were gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate.
It was clearly politically motivated. pic.twitter.com/fwyq4mTwAk
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 12, 2024
The Biden-Harris White House was urged to release the audio from the interviews in the interest of transparency, but they refused, perhaps knowing that they would in effect prove Hur to be correct in his assessments.
Though Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance against then-GOP nominee Donald Trump was a vindication of sorts for Hur, the audio clips shared Friday by Axios reporter Alex Thompson would prove to be the ultimate vindication:
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.
Below is the first of three clips Thompson shared, which contains the audio from the most talked-about portion of the transcript. In a second tweet, Thompson highlights all the pauses, which he noted were key to Hur’s conclusions about how Biden, in Hur’s view, would likely be perceived by a jury:
The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden's dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
There is also a clock in the background as a metronome. pic.twitter.com/Q782dT1f5n— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
Here are the two other clips, where you hear Biden’s lawyer continue to intervene at times on his behalf:
Throughout his interview, Biden sounded more like a nostalgic, grandfatherly storyteller than a potential defendant who could be accused of hoarding secret papers.
He waxed on about several topics including shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
Here is that exchange. pic.twitter.com/I6QHiomhW8— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 16, 2025
The release of the audio clips on top of what we already knew about Biden’s decline and some of the newer revelations included in the forthcoming book Thompson co-authored with CNN‘s Jake Tapper prompted many to share their thoughts, with some conservative commentators even demanding a Biden Commission to investigate who knew what and when:
100% exoneration of Hur. Every person around Biden KNEW Hur was correct and they attacked & impugned his integrity anyway, entirely due to politics. Go read their quotes at the time, then listen to the audio. The discrepancy PERMANENTLY impeaches their veracity & credibility.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 17, 2025
.@jaketapper Will Adam Schiff continue to appear on your CNN show or was this lie not BIG enough? https://t.co/Igq1QnOA6d
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 17, 2025
FLASHBACK: Jamie Raskin calls Robert Hur’s accurate assessment of Biden’s cognitive issues “ridiculous cheap shots” —
— then goes on to defend Biden’s mental sharpness. pic.twitter.com/7dyjHc0mUG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 16, 2025
Democrats told you the Biden Hur audio tapes didn’t matter.
Democrats told you Special Counsel Robert Hur was interfering in an election.
Democrats told you over and over that Joe Biden was “sharp.”
The cover-up of Joe’s mental decline is a scandal of historic proportions. https://t.co/df1h9ootV5
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) May 17, 2025
The list of partisan hacks you should never trust again is quite long. pic.twitter.com/LVd5iTu6Va
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 16, 2025
We need a Biden commission. The entire cabinet and White House staff must be sworn under oath.
— Lawrence Jones III (@LawrenceBJones3) May 16, 2025
Seconded.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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Bu… bu… but, the Dhimmi-crat media shills/lapdogs/trained seals/stenographers were all deceived by the Biden regime’s duplicity and machinations in concealing the dotard-crime boss’s physical and cognitive infirmities and decline! Jake Tapper and A.G. Sulzberger have said so!
Jake “the Fake” Tapper was a VICTIM! (s)
Some commentators are saying it looks scripted—as if Biden had the questions ahead of time and was reading notes.
Consequences? Yet another lesson in just how far and to what extent the Democrat will go to maintain and keep power. Republicans are busy arguing policy and principles.
It’s not possible to argue principles with those who have little or none. Republicans need to stay on topic and not back off the pressure. Revealing something new every week or so will be a good way to do that. Don’t let it die down. Keep this in front of the nation.
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Unfortunately, there are a good number of people out there who think that the guy at the top being incompetent wasn’t a big deal because nothing bad happened. Who cares about the constitutional, legal, and moral issues, not to mention wondering who actually had control of the nuclear football. The country kept running didn’t it? And for many of them, they were happy with what the administration was doing.
I think as well that the Dems and the media are counting on more and more people tuning out any “new” revelation as time goes on, having reached the point of “it’s over and done with, I’m sick of hearing about it.”
(Not that I agree with anything I have typed in the previous two paragraphs.)
Your comment only proves that a random name pulled out of the phone directory would be as good as or better than what we had for a pretend president the last four years.
Personally, I’m not surprised all of this is coming out right now, especially the Hur recordings. The latter first appears on a Friday in May when people have graduations, kids’ sporting events, and summer vacations starting in some parts of the country. On the negative side, this will certainly be a topic of discussion at Memorial Day BBQs. These days a lot of us know a relative, family friend, or person from our wider social acquaintance who has or had dementia or Alzheimer’s, so this is something that isn’t theoretical.
Get it all out there – the books, the Hur recording – before the midterm campaigning starts, when it will be considered old news. After all, the Dems have already started the “We’re looking forward” messaging. The focus will be entirely on Trump, and anyone looking back at Biden will be told that’s irrelevant.
My question would be, “as you’re looking forward sir, what do you see?”
Then get ready to hear more lies
Democrats have a hard time seeing what’s going to happen in the future as a result of their actions. If they did, they would’ve picked their own cotton.
If they could see what would happen to this country in future as a result of bringing millions of illegals into this country, they would immediately become Republicans.
Uh no. Not vindicated. There was never any real attempt to investigate Biden’s crimes. This guy was hired from the start to do nothing and went out of his way to do nothing. Whether Biden is now incompetent bears no relevance to his years of mishandling classified information (if that’s all he did). if he’s incompetent to stand trial, let his counsel assert that. And of course, it goes without saying Biden should have been removed under the 25th amendment, although I would have preferred impeachment.
I agree completely. I feel part of this discussion is getting off topic, which is the logical connection of if he is too incompetent to stand trial then how in the world can he be competent enough to remain president.
Although Hur told the truth about the mental decline, he did not do his job as a prosecutor. So he’s really only half vindicated.
Hur was being charitable.
The audio shows there was an aide present and he was doing a lot of the talking. Why was an aide there? Who was the aide? Was he more than an aide? Perhaps a handler?
There is one thing that is obvious though. Biden was so out of it that there was no way in knew what he was doing most of the time. He was certainly in no condition to make decisions.
In his condition he didn’t even know what an auto pen was, let lone approve the use of one.
The aide was a lawyer,
As RBJ1 says, Hurr really was being charitable…too charitable, IMO. My wife’s an ER doc. We listened to the tape and she said if she was treating Biden, without further cognitive testing (that was positive), she would have reservations about his ability to consent to treatment. ‘Understanding’ is one of the four core components of decisional competency and that component includes memory, long-term and short-term. While it’s possible his short-term memory isn’t as impaired as his long-term memory clearly is…it very well might be. That’s terrifying. He could ‘consent’ to something he won’t even remember tomorrow, which of course wouldn’t be consent of any kind. That tape along with the ubiquitous use of ‘auto-pen’ should merit a detailed examination of every order he gave during his tenure.
So Biden was too cognitively impaired to be tried, but could still function as president? My conclusion and opinion: Hur was in on the Biden whitewash. Not surprising as Hur was appointed by Biden’s protector Merrick Garland. Seasoned pols know that the main function of an AG is to protect the president. That’s why most AGs are cronies of the president. Clearest example: JFK appoints his brother Robert as AG. A lawyer who never tried a case. JFK needed protecting as the 1960 election was stolen. See Chapter 6 of Seymour Hersh’s book “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
If Biden were not impaired then he should not have hesitated to take a cognitive test as Trump did. Thus Biden had the opportunity refute his critics, but refused. Practically a proof he was (and is) impaired.
I expect few to none of criminals who perpetrated the Biden hoax will ever get punished. Trump’s worst appointment: Pam Bondi. She really works against Trump through passivity.
Who the hell was running the country? Find out and prosecute them for insurrection. What else would you call taking power away from an elected president while propping them up as a figurehead.
Hur should start suing people for impinging his reputation.
The last four years was a live production of the 1993 movie “Dave,” starring Kevin Kline.
There was a gangster who tried to pretend to be incompetent so he could avoid prosecution. How do we know that Quisling Joe isn’t does the same? He was functional enough to get bribes from Russia, China and others. He’s functional enough to go to prison.
From my viewpoint on the right, it’s strange for me to hear that anyone thinks that Hur’s reputation was ruined. He was the first man to say officially that the *resident was effectively senile, and everything else was just the enraged barking of the usual pack of chihuahuas that bark at everything they fear or hate.
Hur was indeed vindicated.
Who are or is “President Autopen”? These are or this is a true believer and will to cheat, lie and steal (repetitive) for the good of the Party. I am sure the Dem masses are happy with a central committee (headed by Hunter and Dr. Jill) signing off on all the goodies from the national piggy bank. Their “precious democracy” is just an unlimited credit card and protection racket.
Rest assured that Autopen was passed around like a bottle of baby oil at one of Diddy’s freak offs.
Well, we FINALLY have a scandal and cover-up that legitimately IS “Bigger Than Watergate!” and Carl Bernstein and John Dean are nowhere to be found!
“What do I hear for the publishing rights to President Joe Biden’s memoirs?
$500?
$500?
Do I hear five hundred dollars?”
From the Tapper book …
“The videos were horrible,” one top Democrat said. “He couldn’t follow the conversation at all.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” said a second Democrat, who hadn’t seen Biden in a few years. “It was like a different person. It was incredible. This was like watching Grandpa who shouldn’t be driving.”
… this was 2020
Merrick Garland comes off all the worse. Clearly Robert Hur got to the impermissible nub of why Biden kept the documents (for posterity) and had the good sense to recognize that Joe Biden was not good prosecution material. But Garland refused to equalize the legal approaches between the similar albeit somewhat different cases of the Biden document investigation under Hur and the Trump document investigation led by Jack Smith. Garland also failed this country by endorsing the claim of executive immunity to prevent the release of the audio tapes. The audio tapes were politically explosive to be sure but not legally privileged. Finally Garland failed this nation in not recognizing that Joe Biden was incapable of governing as president and calling for a 25th amendment process. Every new understanding of Garland’s actions seem to result in an ever lowering of his reputation from the once esteemed Federal Circuit Court judge.