President Biden confused key dates during his October interview with special counsel Robert Hur, forgetting which year his son Beau died of brain cancer, as well as the year Donald Trump was elected president, a transcript of the sitdown shows.
âWas it 2015 he had died?â Biden asked of his son Beau at one point in the interview, according to the transcript.
âThereâs even some reference that I donât remember when my son died,â the president said Feb. 8. âHow the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasnât any of their damned business.â
In fact, the transcript shows Biden brought up Beauâs death unprompted by the special counsel.
Moments later, Biden referenced Trumpâs election to the presidency and asked if he had been elected in âNovember of 2017â rather than the previous year.
The sequence contradicted Bidenâs angry claim Feb. 8 that Hur had inappropriately brought up his sonâs death during the interview.
The transcript was obtained by the New York Times, which published excerpts hours before Hur was due to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his probe of Bidenâs retention of classified national security information after leaving office.
Hur triggered outrage in his report last month, when he said he would not recommend charges against Biden in part because the 81-year-old president would present himself to a jury as an âelderly man with a poor memory.â
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