The Epoch Times team confirmed some of the findings of the special counselâs report.
The Epoch Times team confirmed some of the findings of the special counselâs report, issued on Feb. 8. The transcript, which is more than 250 pages long, showed that the president indeed had problems remembering key dates.
When asked about a notebook dated â4-20-09,â President Biden said, âWas I still vice president? I was, wasnât I?â
The transcript showed that Mr. Hur didnât directly inquire about the date of his son Beau Bidenâs death.
Instead, Mr. Hur was trying to understand where President Biden kept papers related to the work he did after leaving the vice presidency in Jan. 2017.
At that point, President Biden started to stutter and mix up what he was saying.
He said âwhen I got out of the Senateâ when he intended to say when he left the vice presidency, and he seemingly conflated events of 2017 and 2018.
According to the transcript, President Biden said: âRemember, in this time frame, my son isâeither been deployed or is dying, and, and so it wasâand 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.â
âAnd, and so what was happening, thoughâwhat month did Beau die? Oh, God, May 30,â he asked.
But the president was reminded that his son died in 2015.
âWas it 2015 he had died?â President Biden asked.
âAnd whatâs happened in the meantime is that asâand Trump gets elected in November of 2017?â President Biden continued.
He was interrupted and corrected again that it was 2016.
âAll right. Soâwhy do I have 2017 here?â President Biden asked.
âThatâs when you left office, January of 2017,â Ed Siskel, the White House counsel said in response.
âYeah, OK. But thatâs when Trump gets sworn in, January,â President Biden said.
âAnd in 2017, Beau had passed,â President Biden added.
Special counsel Robert Hurâs report, issued on Feb. 8, found evidence that President Biden âwillfully retainedâ and shared highly classified information after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen but determined that evidence didnât support charging the president.
Yet, what captured the greatest attention within the special counselâs report was the special counselâs depiction of the presidentâs mental fitness. In his 388-page report to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Mr. Hur included a highly critical evaluation of the 81-year-old presidentâs mental fitness, describing him as âa sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.â
The report referred to the presidentâs memory as âhazy,â âsignificantly limited,â âfaulty,â and âpoor.â
The White House attacked the reportâs findings about the presidentâs memory, calling them âgratuitousâ and âpolitically motivated.â
During a five-hour interview over two days on Oct. 8 and 9, President Biden displayed poor memory, as he couldnât recall the start or end of his vice presidency, according to Mr. Hurâs report.
President Biden also struggled to recall significant events, such as the timing of his son Beauâs death and details about important matters such as the Afghanistan debate, the report stated.
According to the transcript, President Biden was questioned about how a specific folder ended up in his garage.
âMy problem was I never knew where any of the documents or boxes were specifically coming from or who packed them. Just did I get them delivered to me. And so this isâIâm, at this stage, in 2009, am I still vice president?â he asked.
President Biden stressed during the interview that when he found classified information he returned it, according to the transcript of his Oct. 9 interview with Special Counsel Hur and his deputy, Marc Krickbaum.
âI know that anything I found that hadâwhen it was overwhelmingly clear that it was classified, I returned. If you ask me how many times I did that; I donât know,â said President Biden. âBut I did not keep anything that was markedâthat was clearly marked having been handed to me when I was Vice President. Thatâs the only point I was trying to make.â
Moreover, the president said he did not ârecall finding anything after I was Vice President that had classified markings on it.â
He also said that he ânever kept anything when I wasnât Vice President or President that, in fact, was classified document to be used by me for any reason.â
President Biden showed his cognitive decline, as Mr. Hur noted in the report and as relayed by the transcript. He asked on April 20, 2009, whether he was âstill vice president.â He was told that he was. This was exactly three months after being inaugurated.
As the interview progressed, it went off the record as it appears that the special counsel and President Biden and his counsel were discussing classified information pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. The interview went back onto the record. But whether anything crucialâpolicy- or classified-wiseâwas said during that pause is uncertain.
This Afghanistan information, said President Biden, was classified so that he would not âembarrassâ President Barack Obama with whom he had disagreements with regarding foreign policy including the war in Afghanistan, which the United States would eventually withdraw from under President Biden in 2021. President Biden kept this classified information after his vice presidency, according to Mr. Krickbaum.
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