February 08 2024
Special Counsel Robert Hur's report makes it clear that Joe Biden is not well.
- "Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations-both at the time he spoke to [Biden ghostwriter Mark] Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries." [page 207]
- "In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ('if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?"), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ('in 2009, am I still Vice President?'). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he 'had a real difference' of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama." [Page 208]
- "Mr. Biden will likely present himself to the jury, as he did during his interview with our office, as a sympathetic, wellmeaning, elderly man with a poor memory" [Page 219]